I despise pirating games - however, I DO pirate them now due to DRM. For instance, I own a copy of a game and was going to purchase the GOTY edition with the DLC and expansion included - then I found out that they've already turned off the DRM server, so if you buy the GOTY edition, you can't access any of the DLC that you purchased. Guess what I did instead of clicking "add to cart" on Amazon? I jumped to the pirate bay instead.
I gladly pay for DRM-free games and the lower the price, the more willing I am to take a chance on a game and buy it (hence why I grab so much stuff on gog.com). If they want to improve sales, they need to ditch DRM and create a better product - not demonize people who sold what they legally purchased.
Bingo. That's what media industries are very slowly learning. You HAVE to provide a good product to inspire people to pay, because they DO have the alternative of using your product and NOT paying.
Except there have been people mentioning suing Google and Google has also said that they have no plans of releasing the 3.0 / 3.1 code. The binaries were ready for release for tablets. However, tablets did not require the phone functionality and as such, it didn't matter that the phone portion of the code was crap. They don't want to release it because they know people will port 3.0 / 3.1 to phones which will then have severe problems and people will complain about Android not being any good.
Why is this so hard for you to understand? They know that people will try to use the code for something it was never intended to do and then will blame Google when it fails at doing what it wasn't supposed to do. THAT is why they aren't releasing it.
So Google is stuck in a lose-lose situation thanks to the GPL. They can release their code and get a bad rep when morons try to use tablet-only code on phones or they can pay out the ass in fines because they're trying to prevent morons from giving them a bad rep. This is why so many businesses say "Screw F/OSS" because of hassles exactly like this.
And that's exactly why I despise the GPL. It doesn't have any room for common sense and Google would be better off to get away from any GPL code. I realize that the original intent of the GPL was to aid users and developers, but it really just ends up restricting people who are trying to do something good with ridiculous crap like insisting every iteration must be released.
Then again, Google could always just sue them into oblivion..... is that really what you'd prefer? Or no Android at all anymore? Is your religious devotion to a "my word is law - there is no room for even minor deviations" licensing really that strong?
I advocate against suing them - why? Because it's a ridiculous restriction. They've released 99% of the OS versions they've developed and said "Hey, this one has some problems with this portion dealing with the phone - we're going to wait until we make changes before we release it" for that other 1%, and you think this is a problem? The GPL is probably the biggest thing keeping Linux from being bigger than it is, because pretty much no company wants to get sued over all the ridiculous restrictions in the GPL.
This is not Google trying to free-ride and profit off of Linux code while not turning anything over - it's them saying that they're not releasing a particular VERSION of their code because they want to improve it first.
And that is exactly why I take issue with GPL. You're going to complain because they release their code for several OS version, then have a version that they say "Eh, this has some flaws - hold on a few months while we make improvements and then we'll release our fixed versoin" and talk about SUING them for trying to make a better product.
You don't think that adding another 25 cents (if we just do Federal gas tax) per gallon wouldn't have an effect? If you only buy 10 gallons of gas a week (which is much lower than average), that's an extra $130 less that people have to spend. Even if we drastically round down on the number of people driving, that's still $13 BILLION less spent on other things that instead go to higher taxes to be pissed away. You don't think it'll hurt the economy if there's $13 billion less activity going on? The problem isn't tax revenue - the problem is horribly irresponsible spending. Here's a radical idea - instead of all the billions we piss away on useless shit every day, how about we take some of those tax dollars and do something useful with them instead of increasing taxes even more (which they'll still piss away on useless shit). We throw away several hundred billion dollars of taxpayers money on other countries every year - use THAT to fund roads (and ditch the overpriced union labor too).
I never said anything about the real value of the tax. I said that if you raise the tax, you raise gas prices. Since gas prices are even higher now than they were at their peak a few years ago and our economy is shit, raising gas prices by increasing the gas tax is a very stupid thing to do. If you raise the tax, not only will you completely screw over those who can barely scrape by month to month as it is, but those who aren't right on the edge will have less money to spend, which means they buy less, which means stores need fewer employees / companies make less and need fewer employees. You also have the added effect of making the manufacturing and transportation of goods more expensive, which raises prices, which further lowers demand, which further lowers the employment level, which further lowers consumption.....repeat for a long time until we have a higher unemployment rate and those who are employed have a lower standard of living due to less disposable income.
I never said that a gas tax prevents a good economy - I merely pointed out that in a bad economy with already soaring gas prices hurting things, it would be incredibly foolish to intentionally make gas prices go up even more.
Because you are nothing but a peasant and all of your money rightfully belongs to your masters in the government. So far they've been gracious enough to not lower the portion that they allow you to keep, but now they want to alter the deal....pray they don't alter it any further.
Yes, because rasing fuel prices even more (as well as the resulting increase in the cost of everything you buy due to higher manufactoring / transportation costs) while the economy is still shit is a WONDERFUL idea....
The data clearly supports what you're saying and shows that a smaller and smaller portion of the population is paying more and more of the taxes. http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html
Either that or the government will pay 4 million people to dig holes and 4 million people to fill them in again.
While not my recommendation, your idea of the government paying 4 million people to dig wholes and then burying the other 4 million people alive would cut 4 million people from the unemployment line / welfare payrolls. Thank god I have a job and don't have to worry about you burying me alive....
Bingo. That's the irony of these types of comments where people want to shut down these companies......they're much better than the average job and the people earn more than the average person. The people complaining only look at it from the view of "This is how I think things should be and anything else is evil" instead "While things could definitely be better, these jobs are much better than what the average person has, so they're still better off having this job than working on a farm for cents a day".
Then there's Sprint.... I have an Evo and they make it very clear multiple times that you get 100% unlimited data usage with 4G (3G they'll still apply the normal rules to). Also, Sprint doesn't monitor the 4G usage at all (I'm assuming since it goes through Clearwire), which means that you can root or use free tethering apps to your hearts content on 4G.
Except sales equals number of users and the more users, the more apps you get developed - the more apps you have, the more people will want your phone / tablet. As your market share drops, even if your sales stay constant, fewer people will develop for you which causes sales to drop, which causes more developers to leave, etc.
Actually it's not - I counted once and it's an additional one to two steps to do it under the old menu system than with the ribbon (other things can take even more additional steps to do in the old system). It also puts the different options (insert picture, file, etc) RIGHT THERE so you don't have to skim through everything.
I'm sorry, but I don't get what there is to "figure out". It's tabs to change the context of the menu based on what you're doing. If you're inserting items into a document, you click "insert" and the menu shows you only things related to insert. If you want to do the "typical" things such as change font, alignment, font color, etc you click on "home".Want to change how the document is displayed on the screen / how you view the document? Click on "view". I think your problem is that you're so used to it being a clusterfuck for decades that now that it's intuitive your brain is giving you a BSOD.
Having to know where the fuck it is to create your custom toolbar defeats the whole point of "it's easy to find things that you don't know where they are". That's what you don't understand. Yes, I get it, you use Word 99% of your day every day and you've memorized the exact location of every pixel - good for you. The rest of the world is busy doing something productive and as such needs an intuitive interface so that they don't have to waste countless hours memorizing everything.
Hiding the ribbon makes it all look better but it has to be unhidden to use features, or you have to assign frequently-used features to the quick access toolbar
Thus proving that you've never actually used it. When it's hidden it pops up and disappears almost exactly like setting your taskbar to auto-hide. I use this in OneNote all the time while taking notes so that it doesn't interfere with my screen space.
It depends on the job. Yes, there are many that say they require a degree when they really don't - they just use it to weed out people that they feel would be worse employees despite the fact that they may be highly skilled in that area. On the other hand, do you really want to hire someone to be a mechanical engineer that doesn't have a degree in Mech Eng? Would you want someone working as an accountant that didn't major in accounting? You see, several majors really are relevant to the workplace because it really does take awhile to learn the in's and out's of that field in order to use it in a business environment.
It makes one wonder how people expect things to get better, when they are eager to sacrifice what little of an educational system we have left to the mantra the "private" education is best
I'd be more than happy to have publicly FUNDED but privately RUN schools. Compare a private school in the US to any public school and in almost every case, the private school is infinitely better. Hell, even if we just had vouchers we could help improve this situation because then parents who send kids to private schools wouldn't be paying twice (once for the public school that the kid isn't going to and once again for the private school they attend). Please, go watch the documentary Waiting for Superman - it's a real eye opener about the American education system and what the real problems are.
Political Science I'll give you, but the others? Come on. How is society better off because Joe spent 7 years writing about the symbolism in Oscar Wilde's writings? A friend of mine who had a second major in Philosphy openly admits that other than ethics, it's pretty much useless. Then there's all the new crap that's being made up to make people feel better such as "gender studies" and such....face it, some fields of study (if you can really call some of these new ones that) don't have any reason to go beyond a BS/BA
First, you can hide and unhide the ribbon, though it's easier to do in Office 2010 than 2007.
Secondly, while those features may have been "a single click" away, they were a click and several drags away. I've used every incarnation of Word from I believe 5.0 on windows 3.1 on up. The ribbon is godsend for people who don't want to waste hours of their life learning where everything is buried. If I want to insert something, I go under "insert" and then click on what I want to insert (header, picture, whatever). I've done all of this in pre-2007 versions of Office of course, but it was always a pain and took time to figure out where that damn thing was that you only use 1% of the time again. That doesn't exist with the ribbon.
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I despise pirating games - however, I DO pirate them now due to DRM. For instance, I own a copy of a game and was going to purchase the GOTY edition with the DLC and expansion included - then I found out that they've already turned off the DRM server, so if you buy the GOTY edition, you can't access any of the DLC that you purchased. Guess what I did instead of clicking "add to cart" on Amazon? I jumped to the pirate bay instead.
I gladly pay for DRM-free games and the lower the price, the more willing I am to take a chance on a game and buy it (hence why I grab so much stuff on gog.com). If they want to improve sales, they need to ditch DRM and create a better product - not demonize people who sold what they legally purchased.
Bingo. That's what media industries are very slowly learning. You HAVE to provide a good product to inspire people to pay, because they DO have the alternative of using your product and NOT paying.
I prefer GOG.com - same general idea, but you can make infinite backups of your games and there's no DRM to worry about.
Then when pressed for further comment, he said "That depends on what your definition of 'said' is".
Glen Quagmire approves this post! Giggity giggity goo! Heh heh, alright!
Except there have been people mentioning suing Google and Google has also said that they have no plans of releasing the 3.0 / 3.1 code. The binaries were ready for release for tablets. However, tablets did not require the phone functionality and as such, it didn't matter that the phone portion of the code was crap. They don't want to release it because they know people will port 3.0 / 3.1 to phones which will then have severe problems and people will complain about Android not being any good.
Why is this so hard for you to understand? They know that people will try to use the code for something it was never intended to do and then will blame Google when it fails at doing what it wasn't supposed to do. THAT is why they aren't releasing it.
So Google is stuck in a lose-lose situation thanks to the GPL. They can release their code and get a bad rep when morons try to use tablet-only code on phones or they can pay out the ass in fines because they're trying to prevent morons from giving them a bad rep. This is why so many businesses say "Screw F/OSS" because of hassles exactly like this.
And that's exactly why I despise the GPL. It doesn't have any room for common sense and Google would be better off to get away from any GPL code. I realize that the original intent of the GPL was to aid users and developers, but it really just ends up restricting people who are trying to do something good with ridiculous crap like insisting every iteration must be released.
Then again, Google could always just sue them into oblivion..... is that really what you'd prefer? Or no Android at all anymore? Is your religious devotion to a "my word is law - there is no room for even minor deviations" licensing really that strong?
I advocate against suing them - why? Because it's a ridiculous restriction. They've released 99% of the OS versions they've developed and said "Hey, this one has some problems with this portion dealing with the phone - we're going to wait until we make changes before we release it" for that other 1%, and you think this is a problem? The GPL is probably the biggest thing keeping Linux from being bigger than it is, because pretty much no company wants to get sued over all the ridiculous restrictions in the GPL.
This is not Google trying to free-ride and profit off of Linux code while not turning anything over - it's them saying that they're not releasing a particular VERSION of their code because they want to improve it first.
And that is exactly why I take issue with GPL. You're going to complain because they release their code for several OS version, then have a version that they say "Eh, this has some flaws - hold on a few months while we make improvements and then we'll release our fixed versoin" and talk about SUING them for trying to make a better product.
You don't think that adding another 25 cents (if we just do Federal gas tax) per gallon wouldn't have an effect? If you only buy 10 gallons of gas a week (which is much lower than average), that's an extra $130 less that people have to spend. Even if we drastically round down on the number of people driving, that's still $13 BILLION less spent on other things that instead go to higher taxes to be pissed away. You don't think it'll hurt the economy if there's $13 billion less activity going on? The problem isn't tax revenue - the problem is horribly irresponsible spending. Here's a radical idea - instead of all the billions we piss away on useless shit every day, how about we take some of those tax dollars and do something useful with them instead of increasing taxes even more (which they'll still piss away on useless shit). We throw away several hundred billion dollars of taxpayers money on other countries every year - use THAT to fund roads (and ditch the overpriced union labor too).
*beats head on desk*
I never said anything about the real value of the tax. I said that if you raise the tax, you raise gas prices. Since gas prices are even higher now than they were at their peak a few years ago and our economy is shit, raising gas prices by increasing the gas tax is a very stupid thing to do. If you raise the tax, not only will you completely screw over those who can barely scrape by month to month as it is, but those who aren't right on the edge will have less money to spend, which means they buy less, which means stores need fewer employees / companies make less and need fewer employees. You also have the added effect of making the manufacturing and transportation of goods more expensive, which raises prices, which further lowers demand, which further lowers the employment level, which further lowers consumption.....repeat for a long time until we have a higher unemployment rate and those who are employed have a lower standard of living due to less disposable income.
I never said that a gas tax prevents a good economy - I merely pointed out that in a bad economy with already soaring gas prices hurting things, it would be incredibly foolish to intentionally make gas prices go up even more.
Because you are nothing but a peasant and all of your money rightfully belongs to your masters in the government. So far they've been gracious enough to not lower the portion that they allow you to keep, but now they want to alter the deal....pray they don't alter it any further.
Yes, because rasing fuel prices even more (as well as the resulting increase in the cost of everything you buy due to higher manufactoring / transportation costs) while the economy is still shit is a WONDERFUL idea....
it's become politically unacceptable for some reason to increase the fuel tax rate
For some reason? You don't think record high gas prices or the second worst economy in the history of the US are valid reasons to not raise gas taxes?
The data clearly supports what you're saying and shows that a smaller and smaller portion of the population is paying more and more of the taxes. http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html
Either that or the government will pay 4 million people to dig holes and 4 million people to fill them in again.
While not my recommendation, your idea of the government paying 4 million people to dig wholes and then burying the other 4 million people alive would cut 4 million people from the unemployment line / welfare payrolls. Thank god I have a job and don't have to worry about you burying me alive....
Bingo. That's the irony of these types of comments where people want to shut down these companies......they're much better than the average job and the people earn more than the average person. The people complaining only look at it from the view of "This is how I think things should be and anything else is evil" instead "While things could definitely be better, these jobs are much better than what the average person has, so they're still better off having this job than working on a farm for cents a day".
Then there's Sprint.... I have an Evo and they make it very clear multiple times that you get 100% unlimited data usage with 4G (3G they'll still apply the normal rules to). Also, Sprint doesn't monitor the 4G usage at all (I'm assuming since it goes through Clearwire), which means that you can root or use free tethering apps to your hearts content on 4G.
Except sales equals number of users and the more users, the more apps you get developed - the more apps you have, the more people will want your phone / tablet. As your market share drops, even if your sales stay constant, fewer people will develop for you which causes sales to drop, which causes more developers to leave, etc.
Actually it's not - I counted once and it's an additional one to two steps to do it under the old menu system than with the ribbon (other things can take even more additional steps to do in the old system). It also puts the different options (insert picture, file, etc) RIGHT THERE so you don't have to skim through everything.
I'm sorry, but I don't get what there is to "figure out". It's tabs to change the context of the menu based on what you're doing. If you're inserting items into a document, you click "insert" and the menu shows you only things related to insert. If you want to do the "typical" things such as change font, alignment, font color, etc you click on "home".Want to change how the document is displayed on the screen / how you view the document? Click on "view". I think your problem is that you're so used to it being a clusterfuck for decades that now that it's intuitive your brain is giving you a BSOD.
Having to know where the fuck it is to create your custom toolbar defeats the whole point of "it's easy to find things that you don't know where they are". That's what you don't understand. Yes, I get it, you use Word 99% of your day every day and you've memorized the exact location of every pixel - good for you. The rest of the world is busy doing something productive and as such needs an intuitive interface so that they don't have to waste countless hours memorizing everything.
Hiding the ribbon makes it all look better but it has to be unhidden to use features, or you have to assign frequently-used features to the quick access toolbar
Thus proving that you've never actually used it. When it's hidden it pops up and disappears almost exactly like setting your taskbar to auto-hide. I use this in OneNote all the time while taking notes so that it doesn't interfere with my screen space.
It depends on the job. Yes, there are many that say they require a degree when they really don't - they just use it to weed out people that they feel would be worse employees despite the fact that they may be highly skilled in that area. On the other hand, do you really want to hire someone to be a mechanical engineer that doesn't have a degree in Mech Eng? Would you want someone working as an accountant that didn't major in accounting? You see, several majors really are relevant to the workplace because it really does take awhile to learn the in's and out's of that field in order to use it in a business environment.
It makes one wonder how people expect things to get better, when they are eager to sacrifice what little of an educational system we have left to the mantra the "private" education is best
I'd be more than happy to have publicly FUNDED but privately RUN schools. Compare a private school in the US to any public school and in almost every case, the private school is infinitely better. Hell, even if we just had vouchers we could help improve this situation because then parents who send kids to private schools wouldn't be paying twice (once for the public school that the kid isn't going to and once again for the private school they attend). Please, go watch the documentary Waiting for Superman - it's a real eye opener about the American education system and what the real problems are.
Political Science I'll give you, but the others? Come on. How is society better off because Joe spent 7 years writing about the symbolism in Oscar Wilde's writings? A friend of mine who had a second major in Philosphy openly admits that other than ethics, it's pretty much useless. Then there's all the new crap that's being made up to make people feel better such as "gender studies" and such....face it, some fields of study (if you can really call some of these new ones that) don't have any reason to go beyond a BS/BA
First, you can hide and unhide the ribbon, though it's easier to do in Office 2010 than 2007.
Secondly, while those features may have been "a single click" away, they were a click and several drags away. I've used every incarnation of Word from I believe 5.0 on windows 3.1 on up. The ribbon is godsend for people who don't want to waste hours of their life learning where everything is buried. If I want to insert something, I go under "insert" and then click on what I want to insert (header, picture, whatever). I've done all of this in pre-2007 versions of Office of course, but it was always a pain and took time to figure out where that damn thing was that you only use 1% of the time again. That doesn't exist with the ribbon.