Then those companies have some real incompetence. I've seen some really old shitty ASP intranet sites in my time and they're still fine in IE7. IE8 has broke some of the ones I've tested in it but no one is asking them to go very latest release. IE7 would be better than IE6.
IE7 was released 2006. We're not talking about bleeding edge untested software.
There is a direct benefit. They will have to replace the computers at some point and they'll have a new OS on them that won't have IE6. They're not saving money. They're just delaying the inevitable.
I would still say it's laziness. They don't have have to do all 450,000 at once. Even my employer did its Lotus Notes upgrades in sections. Not even just by country but by groups within the country.
IBM has way more money and a larger IT department. I suspect they could handle it if they wanted.
Sure if your mentality is that you can only be number one once and will be destined for failure after you rein is over.
Peope used think that about games consoles but nintendo bucked the trend when against two big opponents. There is no reason Yahoo can't do the same if they take research seriously.
Making yourself out to be a big cry baby because you didn't get a job within 3 months on your average degree in a shitty economic climate.
If I were an employer I'd think she's clearly not that bright and she's a trouble maker.
People need to realise that having a degree doesn't guarantee anything and it guarantees less and less as more people get them. It used to be you had to go the extra mile by getting a degree to have a good job. But as a degree comes closer to being a high school diploma then you're going to have to do more work on top of that degree with personal projects, volunteering or whatever. A lot of people who don't really need degrees need to realise this and quit getting them so they don't ruin the value of degrees for people who take it seriously.
If you try to work with Word across multiple versions of the software and or with multiple printers, you quickly find it's shit.
MS has full access to their own format and full access over coding the software to read it and they still cock it up.
That said, Word works enough as far as most people are concerned and it's a decent price and everyone uses Windows so Office, a reasonable bit of software, gets pushed on them. That's why they use it.
If they're at work and for a company so backwards that they don't get rid of crap like IE6 then there is a good chance they don't need Digg for work. Just block them fully. You'll find once people can't use sites, eventually people with power will get nailed by this and you'll amazingly find IE6 disappear from the work computers.
I wouldn't say that I agree with farm subsidies but they do exist. I wouldn't agree with the electric company getting hand-outs either but I bet you they do set some sort of hand-out.
That was my point in another reply. A lot of other countries are fine with seeing different people in their games. Where as Americans are moaning over whether it's black Americans or white Americans in games. Either way, for te vast majority of the globe, the end result is the same.
Or like RE4, where Capcom used Spanish voice actors which didn't quite work in Spain. But Mexicans will work for less and Americans would know Meixcan Spanish over Spain's Spanish so it would seem more authentic to their largest market.
It's all well & good to say American developers are white Americans and therefore prefer to see white Americans in their games but even movies, which primarily feature Americans, aren't as bad as video games.
Game developers just don't try because they feel they can't or don't have to. Of all forms of entertainment, gaming is the most backward form of entertainment and shows no signs of changing. It's not really America's fault. It is those in Japane and Europe that just dont' want to rock the boat that are damaging their nation's chance of shining in gaming.
There are a lot of things about globalisation that are nice. There are some things that are bad, like companies just appealing to the largest market because everyone else will just fall in line. This desperately needs to change otherwise gaming will never be taken seriously for this, amongst other reasons. Everyone is just too happy to appeal to teenage American boys.
What and not provide power to everyone on the other side of your house or stick in the middle of the road?
BTW, it's not just the power company. The government and pretty much anyone they want to allow to do so, has access to something like the outer 10 ft (or maybe more) of your land no matter what. Getting the government to allow you to kick the power company off of your land will never happen because it will involve kicking the government off too.
You don't contribute gas back into the system nor do you contribute bytes back into your ISP's network. In both instances you're using something or not without giving something useful back.
With electricity, you're giving them electricity to reuse. Considering some states buy and "ship" electricity from other states, I think they're making out ok getting the money from near by customers at a reduced rate.
It's all about profit protection with the green movement and poor economy causing people to rethink how much energy they use.
Some people do get day / night rates in the UK. Which is why you'd get a washing machine that can be set up to run in the early hours of the morning, near the end of your cheap rate, and be ready to be hung up when you wake up.
It's not rocket science. People shouldn't be afraid of thinking and having to calculate numbers.
Farmers are private business owners but still get propped up by the government. I highly doubt private electric companies go without receiving money from the government. Especially when electricity, like food, is a must have for everyone.
I don't think anyone is arguing that. What his point was is that, how do you calculate this fee. If someone pays it and don't use normal electricity all summer then fine, they're paying a minimal amount to cover maintenance.
But what about the winter when they may possibly use little to no solar energy? They pull in "normal" electricity, like everyone else, and paying on top of it with this fee. If you have a mixed month it seems pretty costly to have to figure out when and when they shouldn't pay the fee.
All this comes down to is that they're afraid that being green is catching on (especially with the economy being shit and giving another reason to save) and between having to pay people for extra energy and general use going down, they're afraid their profits are going to disappear. This is a way to maintain the status quo and punish those who are making a positive contribution to the community.
They think they can pass off this little profit protection racket by playing on American's general dislike for socialism and the selfish idea that you might have to help pay for someone else. Despite al the socialist programs, like medicare, social security, etc that people won't give up, Americans think socialism is bad and they're playing on that by saying you'll have to support your green neighbor when actually that's probably not true and even if it were it doesn't matter when everyone benefits in the end from saving energy.
Not really. CentOS never would have went away. Who cares if it would have had to get a new domain name and change a few other things. It's not like the guy was doing all the work himself and no one else could ever replace him.
They shouldn't have released it under a licence that would allow you to do what you did. I would put the price back up to $2.99 and tell the to like it or lump it.
You can't support open source software and then get in a mood because someone does something with your code that you may not necessarily like but follows the licence and especially if they go out of their way to be helpful and kind to the original community/developers.
The original developers are just being dicks and trying to guilt trip you into doing things their way. You might as well stick with closed source, Microsoft, solutions if you want to be bullied into doing things one way.
No, they held up their end. Any resitrctions are due to how Apple work so t he developer did nothing unethical. It maybe be unfortunate how Apple works but then again if you want a phone that is more open source friendly then get a Android phone. Grab the Xpilot source, port it to Android and even charge for it and be pleased as a pig in shit.
Yes people do care which is why the Japanese and the European game developers use a lot of white American characters and voice actors in their games rather than making games about their people.
Japanese games as an example of racial diversity. I want some of what you are smoking.
To be fair a lot of Japanese game feature white people too. In fact pretty much all of their big series feature white people...generally American white people. That doesn't make them diverse.
You're right most people do create games based on what they know but a lot of other people also make games featuring boring ass stereotypical white guys with boring ass generic American voices only because American voice actors will work for peanuts, the rest of the world is willing to play games that feature different races but Americans seem hung up on having everyone just like them in their entertainment.
In the end it would be nice to play more games that feature some sort of difference maybe even like a white guy that doesn't have an American accent. But character diversity won't happen. The business model for gaming is flawed and doesn't allow for the vast majority of companies to be different. So they won't. We're stuck with only a handful of genres featuring games that won't break the mold and characters that appeal to little Johnny America because he plays a lot of games and doesn't like different people.
GTA: San Andreas featured a black "gangsta" because that is the black equivalent of the Italian mobsters or Chinese Triads featured in other games and yes, there is a GTA game that stars Chinese guy and a whole cast of minorities so this old tired argument about the GTA games only featuring one token minority and he happens to be a gangster is well past its prime but these arguments always come from PC assholes who never played the games enough to understand what is going on in them.
You're right and there are some places a phone shouldn't be used. But if you take the phone off them mommy will cry that her kid might get raped on the way home with no way to call for help. So the next best solution is make it so the phones don't work in school.
There is no one the child should need to call that he can't use a school phone for and if he wants to call his friends he can go outside during lunch period.
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Then those companies have some real incompetence. I've seen some really old shitty ASP intranet sites in my time and they're still fine in IE7. IE8 has broke some of the ones I've tested in it but no one is asking them to go very latest release. IE7 would be better than IE6.
IE7 was released 2006. We're not talking about bleeding edge untested software.
There is a direct benefit. They will have to replace the computers at some point and they'll have a new OS on them that won't have IE6. They're not saving money. They're just delaying the inevitable.
I would still say it's laziness. They don't have have to do all 450,000 at once. Even my employer did its Lotus Notes upgrades in sections. Not even just by country but by groups within the country.
IBM has way more money and a larger IT department. I suspect they could handle it if they wanted.
Sure if your mentality is that you can only be number one once and will be destined for failure after you rein is over.
Peope used think that about games consoles but nintendo bucked the trend when against two big opponents. There is no reason Yahoo can't do the same if they take research seriously.
Making yourself out to be a big cry baby because you didn't get a job within 3 months on your average degree in a shitty economic climate.
If I were an employer I'd think she's clearly not that bright and she's a trouble maker.
People need to realise that having a degree doesn't guarantee anything and it guarantees less and less as more people get them. It used to be you had to go the extra mile by getting a degree to have a good job. But as a degree comes closer to being a high school diploma then you're going to have to do more work on top of that degree with personal projects, volunteering or whatever. A lot of people who don't really need degrees need to realise this and quit getting them so they don't ruin the value of degrees for people who take it seriously.
If you try to work with Word across multiple versions of the software and or with multiple printers, you quickly find it's shit.
MS has full access to their own format and full access over coding the software to read it and they still cock it up.
That said, Word works enough as far as most people are concerned and it's a decent price and everyone uses Windows so Office, a reasonable bit of software, gets pushed on them. That's why they use it.
Open certainly doesn't include patents. That much is certain.
If they're at work and for a company so backwards that they don't get rid of crap like IE6 then there is a good chance they don't need Digg for work. Just block them fully. You'll find once people can't use sites, eventually people with power will get nailed by this and you'll amazingly find IE6 disappear from the work computers.
I wouldn't say that I agree with farm subsidies but they do exist. I wouldn't agree with the electric company getting hand-outs either but I bet you they do set some sort of hand-out.
That was my point in another reply. A lot of other countries are fine with seeing different people in their games. Where as Americans are moaning over whether it's black Americans or white Americans in games. Either way, for te vast majority of the globe, the end result is the same.
Or like RE4, where Capcom used Spanish voice actors which didn't quite work in Spain. But Mexicans will work for less and Americans would know Meixcan Spanish over Spain's Spanish so it would seem more authentic to their largest market.
It's all well & good to say American developers are white Americans and therefore prefer to see white Americans in their games but even movies, which primarily feature Americans, aren't as bad as video games.
Game developers just don't try because they feel they can't or don't have to. Of all forms of entertainment, gaming is the most backward form of entertainment and shows no signs of changing. It's not really America's fault. It is those in Japane and Europe that just dont' want to rock the boat that are damaging their nation's chance of shining in gaming.
There are a lot of things about globalisation that are nice. There are some things that are bad, like companies just appealing to the largest market because everyone else will just fall in line. This desperately needs to change otherwise gaming will never be taken seriously for this, amongst other reasons. Everyone is just too happy to appeal to teenage American boys.
What and not provide power to everyone on the other side of your house or stick in the middle of the road?
BTW, it's not just the power company. The government and pretty much anyone they want to allow to do so, has access to something like the outer 10 ft (or maybe more) of your land no matter what. Getting the government to allow you to kick the power company off of your land will never happen because it will involve kicking the government off too.
You don't contribute gas back into the system nor do you contribute bytes back into your ISP's network. In both instances you're using something or not without giving something useful back.
With electricity, you're giving them electricity to reuse. Considering some states buy and "ship" electricity from other states, I think they're making out ok getting the money from near by customers at a reduced rate.
It's all about profit protection with the green movement and poor economy causing people to rethink how much energy they use.
Some people do get day / night rates in the UK. Which is why you'd get a washing machine that can be set up to run in the early hours of the morning, near the end of your cheap rate, and be ready to be hung up when you wake up.
It's not rocket science. People shouldn't be afraid of thinking and having to calculate numbers.
It's all a scam to protect profits and palying on the American fear of socialism and paying for anything someone else may be using.
Farmers are private business owners but still get propped up by the government. I highly doubt private electric companies go without receiving money from the government. Especially when electricity, like food, is a must have for everyone.
I don't think anyone is arguing that. What his point was is that, how do you calculate this fee. If someone pays it and don't use normal electricity all summer then fine, they're paying a minimal amount to cover maintenance.
But what about the winter when they may possibly use little to no solar energy? They pull in "normal" electricity, like everyone else, and paying on top of it with this fee. If you have a mixed month it seems pretty costly to have to figure out when and when they shouldn't pay the fee.
All this comes down to is that they're afraid that being green is catching on (especially with the economy being shit and giving another reason to save) and between having to pay people for extra energy and general use going down, they're afraid their profits are going to disappear. This is a way to maintain the status quo and punish those who are making a positive contribution to the community.
They think they can pass off this little profit protection racket by playing on American's general dislike for socialism and the selfish idea that you might have to help pay for someone else. Despite al the socialist programs, like medicare, social security, etc that people won't give up, Americans think socialism is bad and they're playing on that by saying you'll have to support your green neighbor when actually that's probably not true and even if it were it doesn't matter when everyone benefits in the end from saving energy.
Not really. CentOS never would have went away. Who cares if it would have had to get a new domain name and change a few other things. It's not like the guy was doing all the work himself and no one else could ever replace him.
They shouldn't have released it under a licence that would allow you to do what you did. I would put the price back up to $2.99 and tell the to like it or lump it.
You can't support open source software and then get in a mood because someone does something with your code that you may not necessarily like but follows the licence and especially if they go out of their way to be helpful and kind to the original community/developers.
The original developers are just being dicks and trying to guilt trip you into doing things their way. You might as well stick with closed source, Microsoft, solutions if you want to be bullied into doing things one way.
No, they held up their end. Any resitrctions are due to how Apple work so t he developer did nothing unethical. It maybe be unfortunate how Apple works but then again if you want a phone that is more open source friendly then get a Android phone. Grab the Xpilot source, port it to Android and even charge for it and be pleased as a pig in shit.
But the your character losing control of its bowels at random times would make up for it.
Yes people do care which is why the Japanese and the European game developers use a lot of white American characters and voice actors in their games rather than making games about their people.
Japanese games as an example of racial diversity. I want some of what you are smoking.
To be fair a lot of Japanese game feature white people too. In fact pretty much all of their big series feature white people...generally American white people. That doesn't make them diverse.
You're right most people do create games based on what they know but a lot of other people also make games featuring boring ass stereotypical white guys with boring ass generic American voices only because American voice actors will work for peanuts, the rest of the world is willing to play games that feature different races but Americans seem hung up on having everyone just like them in their entertainment.
In the end it would be nice to play more games that feature some sort of difference maybe even like a white guy that doesn't have an American accent. But character diversity won't happen. The business model for gaming is flawed and doesn't allow for the vast majority of companies to be different. So they won't. We're stuck with only a handful of genres featuring games that won't break the mold and characters that appeal to little Johnny America because he plays a lot of games and doesn't like different people.
GTA: San Andreas featured a black "gangsta" because that is the black equivalent of the Italian mobsters or Chinese Triads featured in other games and yes, there is a GTA game that stars Chinese guy and a whole cast of minorities so this old tired argument about the GTA games only featuring one token minority and he happens to be a gangster is well past its prime but these arguments always come from PC assholes who never played the games enough to understand what is going on in them.
They're not really awards you brag about. So I won't be expecting victory speeches.
Who thought you could earn so much sucking dick. Here I've been doing it in back alleys for a nickel.
You're right and there are some places a phone shouldn't be used. But if you take the phone off them mommy will cry that her kid might get raped on the way home with no way to call for help. So the next best solution is make it so the phones don't work in school.
There is no one the child should need to call that he can't use a school phone for and if he wants to call his friends he can go outside during lunch period.