You missed an important detail, which is that the poor cannot wait for the wonderful new India to deliver them a decent food source, given that they're going hungry now.
And no gun control whatsoever. Why the Libertarians haven't moved there from the politically correct bureaucrat dominated hell that is the USA is a mystery.
Your argument would have more force if it wasn't for the fact that the government already pays for a lot of medical research that is available to the pharma companies.
They've been here ages: search for "slashdot groupthink" or "why does everyone automatically think microsoft are bad". Wouldn't have seen that sorta nonsense when I first joined.
an unproven technology that won't be compatible with anything for a couple years, and might not be supported long term
Any free and/or open source product would still have to get past that rather more significant stumbling block - else Microsoft would now be in deep shit instead of still fabulously successful.
Aren't you attacking the people here too though Mr unionphobe. I don't know about the US but it's not the teachers' unions that keep bad teachers employed here in the UK - it's the chronic shortage of people willing to take on such a thankless task. Attitudes such as yours don't help.
Standard example, every truck fleet owner has a favorite brand, yet they always got a couple of trucks that are of a different brand. The reason, simple, it makes negotiations a bit easier. Sure out of the 500 trucks in company 490 will be say Mercedes BUT on the day the Mercedes rep comes to talk about a new order you can bet that the 10 daf trucks will be proudly parked right outside the office. Just a hint that the order does not have to go to Mercedes this time.
Bad analogy. DAF trucks use the same fuel and roads as Mercedes trucks and therefore are a replacement for them. Open Office does not work as well with the millions of documents, spreadsheets and macros that businesses use as Office does and therefore in a lot of cases is not a replacement for Office. The inertia isn't caused by lack of understanding of IT - I doubt the manager of a large haulage firm understands diesel engines either - it's caused by lock-in.
It's not so much that I'm defending the satellite broadcasters - I don't have much time for them at all - it was the idea that they should either not be in business or give away their content for nothing because they didn't have the ability to control the laws of physics.
There were some jackasses on here who justified illegitimate satellite receivers on the grounds that the "damn stuff is broadcast over my property" as if somehow the satellite company could change the laws of physics.
And for every success story there are dozens of failures. Sorry but it is a lot harder than you think. I know from experience that the people here who go "just start a business" either don't have a clue, work too hard or have been very lucky.
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1998 called - they want your argument back.
You missed an important detail, which is that the poor cannot wait for the wonderful new India to deliver them a decent food source, given that they're going hungry now.
And the Ethiopians drove them out at the end of last year.
And no gun control whatsoever. Why the Libertarians haven't moved there from the politically correct bureaucrat dominated hell that is the USA is a mystery.
Your argument would have more force if it wasn't for the fact that the government already pays for a lot of medical research that is available to the pharma companies.
They've been here ages: search for "slashdot groupthink" or "why does everyone automatically think microsoft are bad". Wouldn't have seen that sorta nonsense when I first joined.
"Great Microsoft applications" or "Microsoft applications that grate"
an unproven technology that won't be compatible with anything for a couple years, and might not be supported long term
Any free and/or open source product would still have to get past that rather more significant stumbling block - else Microsoft would now be in deep shit instead of still fabulously successful.
Aren't you attacking the people here too though Mr unionphobe. I don't know about the US but it's not the teachers' unions that keep bad teachers employed here in the UK - it's the chronic shortage of people willing to take on such a thankless task. Attitudes such as yours don't help.
Sadly his attitude is common to many IT departments.
Yeh those damn liberals. Without them we'd still be living in the utopia that was the 19th century.
Word drives me insane sometimes but surely firing him into space for it was a bit OTT.
How do you get a year's experience from a book?
I think of that shitty RnB guy
I suppose I should be thankful for that at least ;-)
How does a person who wants to get into IT but has no experience get into IT?
Standard example, every truck fleet owner has a favorite brand, yet they always got a couple of trucks that are of a different brand. The reason, simple, it makes negotiations a bit easier. Sure out of the 500 trucks in company 490 will be say Mercedes BUT on the day the Mercedes rep comes to talk about a new order you can bet that the 10 daf trucks will be proudly parked right outside the office. Just a hint that the order does not have to go to Mercedes this time.
Bad analogy. DAF trucks use the same fuel and roads as Mercedes trucks and therefore are a replacement for them. Open Office does not work as well with the millions of documents, spreadsheets and macros that businesses use as Office does and therefore in a lot of cases is not a replacement for Office. The inertia isn't caused by lack of understanding of IT - I doubt the manager of a large haulage firm understands diesel engines either - it's caused by lock-in.
Don't let him near any chairs is all I can say.
They are in fact very similar.
The 1000 KIA were heavily armed well-equipped troops? If not then your idiotic pissing contest has no meaning.
Yes why wouldn't it?
When did Tony Blair become a Socialist? Must have been very recently.
It's not so much that I'm defending the satellite broadcasters - I don't have much time for them at all - it was the idea that they should either not be in business or give away their content for nothing because they didn't have the ability to control the laws of physics.
There were some jackasses on here who justified illegitimate satellite receivers on the grounds that the "damn stuff is broadcast over my property" as if somehow the satellite company could change the laws of physics.
And for every success story there are dozens of failures. Sorry but it is a lot harder than you think. I know from experience that the people here who go "just start a business" either don't have a clue, work too hard or have been very lucky.