For MS, bribing those officials was sure worth it.
Employees had trouble with documents that were formatted in a seemingly complete random way when opened in another office suite. There were also conversion problems between the presentation programs Power Point and Impress. And spreadsheet program Calc and Impress were seen as significantly underperforming compared to the Microsoft alternative, the council wrote.
> it's a sign of proper upbringing to value all people equally regardless of where they were born.
Oh come on now, this is not a nationality issue. It's a matter of sound economic policy. BTW: the major H1B importers certainly do not allow other nations to to flood the markets in *their* coutries.
1) I openly defy you to name another nation that is more tollerant towards immigrants than the USA.
2) Are H!Bs "immigrants" H1B advocates tend to flip-flop on this depending on what supports their argument at the time.
3) You completely ignored the actual argument, and instead created a straw man argument. Why should Americans train for STEM, only to train their H1B replacements, or have their jobs offshored? Being accepting of "immigrants" is one thing, stupid public policy is another.
If you want Americans to study STEM, you need to provide jobs for them. Why get a degree in engineering just to train to your H1B replacement, or to have you job offshored.
It's not impossible, unless you run into one of those idiots who think that any sex beyond attempting procreation within a properly married couple is a grievous sin.
Thomas Barnett is the "Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust" and also a former lawyer for Microsoft.
Thomas is pushing for antitrust legislation against Google, right now. Thomas has previously Thom rejected Google's claims against Microsoft.
Looks a little suspecious to me.
I think it's fairly clear that Microsoft is behind this. This has Microsoft's M.O. all over it. Remember MS execs going to work for Acacia just before Acacia sued Redhat?
You seem to be saying that you can streatch the words in the bible to mean anyting you want. So why even bother with them at all, since really it is you making the bible say what you want it to say.
Man was made from a handful of dust means that proteins turned into single cell beings, that further evolved etc. If you believe in evolution, why even bother with those mental gymnatics to make the bible fit with scientific theory?
> "A Look At Competitors to the Surface and iPad "
Seems to imply that iPad, and Surface, and industry standards, and anything else is an alternative. But practically nobody is using a Surface. It's like saying "A Look At Competitors to Windows and FreeBSD "
Seriouisly. I used Win2K for years after it was no longer supported.
Software will continue to run on XP for a long time. Arguably, device support is still better on XP than on anything newer. IT staff not familar with XP? Were they litterally born yesterday?
Are they kidding? How about looking into Microsoft and Nokia and Apple and MOSAID and fill-in-the-blank-patent-trolls and all Microsoft's little FairSearch helpers in a conspiracy to use patents to destroy Android? Who started the patent smartphone wars, after all? It wasn't Google. By the way, have you written a nice, polite letter or email to the FTC about this? Here's their general contact page; here's the antitrust page, with an email contact. Note they state that if you wish your expressions to be kept confidential, don't email. Send a regular letter marked confidential.
I am not the first one to suggest this. The idea behind these violent tantrums is to send the message: "just give up a tiny amount of freedomof speech, and we will have peace."
Problem is, radical Islam can never be appeased. The more you give them, the more the want.
I would not have put it the way you did. But, other than buying oil, what business does the US have in the mid-east? Why are we putting ourselves in the middle of their ancient, perpetual, and non-sensicle squabbles? Why are giving billions in US aid, every year, to countries like Egypt, and Pakistan?
Please remember: Muslims are not only actively fighting Christians, and Jews. Muslims are also actively fighting: Hindus, Buddhists, and other Muslims, among others.
Then why are Muslims also attacking in so many other countries? There are Muslim terrorist attacks, all over the world, every day, and it's been going on like that for decades. Muslims are actively attacking not only Jews, and Christians, but Hindus, Buddhists, and of course, other Muslims.
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That is what I am guessing.
Good time to switch to Linux.
Why use a "standard" that is a big secret, and can only be supported by one vendor?
For MS, bribing those officials was sure worth it.
1) H1Bs are not legally allowed to create start ups.
2) Many of the start-ups created by foreign workers are staffing companies designed to replace even more US workers.
> it's a sign of proper upbringing to value all people equally regardless of where they were born.
Oh come on now, this is not a nationality issue. It's a matter of sound economic policy. BTW: the major H1B importers certainly do not allow other nations to to flood the markets in *their* coutries.
1) I openly defy you to name another nation that is more tollerant towards immigrants than the USA.
2) Are H!Bs "immigrants" H1B advocates tend to flip-flop on this depending on what supports their argument at the time.
3) You completely ignored the actual argument, and instead created a straw man argument. Why should Americans train for STEM, only to train their H1B replacements, or have their jobs offshored? Being accepting of "immigrants" is one thing, stupid public policy is another.
If you want Americans to study STEM, you need to provide jobs for them. Why get a degree in engineering just to train to your H1B replacement, or to have you job offshored.
Among the clergy, even that is a sin.
Comcast pushes their own pay-per-view shows, and not the shows on other premium channels.
Thomas Barnett is the "Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust" and also a former lawyer for Microsoft. That looks a little suspecious to me.
Thomas Barnett is the "Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust" and also a former lawyer for Microsoft.
Thomas is pushing for antitrust legislation against Google, right now. Thomas has previously Thom rejected Google's claims against Microsoft.
Looks a little suspecious to me.
I think it's fairly clear that Microsoft is behind this. This has Microsoft's M.O. all over it. Remember MS execs going to work for Acacia just before Acacia sued Redhat?
Thomas Barnett is the "Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust" and also a former lawyer for Microsoft.
Thomas is pushing for antitrust legislation against Google, right now. Thomas has previously Thom rejected Google's claims against Microsoft.
Looks a little suspecious to me.
What is wrong with Google advertising their own products, or services?
You seem to be saying that you can streatch the words in the bible to mean anyting you want. So why even bother with them at all, since really it is you making the bible say what you want it to say.
Man was made from a handful of dust means that proteins turned into single cell beings, that further evolved etc. If you believe in evolution, why even bother with those mental gymnatics to make the bible fit with scientific theory?
> "A Look At Competitors to the Surface and iPad "
Seems to imply that iPad, and Surface, and industry standards, and anything else is an alternative. But practically nobody is using a Surface. It's like saying "A Look At Competitors to Windows and FreeBSD "
This is 100% Apple's fault. Apple started all of this. Samsung, Google, everybody else, is trying to protect themselves against Apple.
People used to wait in line to buy the newest MS upgrade. Today, people have to have upgrades forced on them.
Another appeal to emotion argument. Whatever Apple, or Ubuntu, are doing does not change the fact that win8 is not needed, or even an improvement.
Seriouisly. I used Win2K for years after it was no longer supported.
Software will continue to run on XP for a long time. Arguably, device support is still better on XP than on anything newer. IT staff not familar with XP? Were they litterally born yesterday?
When I see ebook prices drop significantly, then I'll celebrate. A $0.30 check is no BFD to me.
Apple's so-called "inventions" are things like the shape of an icon, silly crap like that.
But Apple wants to keep all other smart phones off the market, as if Apple "invented" the smart phone.
Pakistan suggested that, in the interest of peace, US freedom of speech should not include speech that is offensive to Muslims.
Then Pakistan offered up $200K to whack the guy who made the video. A "fatwa" I think they call it.
I am not the first one to suggest this. The idea behind these violent tantrums is to send the message: "just give up a tiny amount of freedomof speech, and we will have peace."
Problem is, radical Islam can never be appeased. The more you give them, the more the want.
I would not have put it the way you did. But, other than buying oil, what business does the US have in the mid-east? Why are we putting ourselves in the middle of their ancient, perpetual, and non-sensicle squabbles? Why are giving billions in US aid, every year, to countries like Egypt, and Pakistan?
Please remember: Muslims are not only actively fighting Christians, and Jews. Muslims are also actively fighting: Hindus, Buddhists, and other Muslims, among others.
Then why are Muslims also attacking in so many other countries? There are Muslim terrorist attacks, all over the world, every day, and it's been going on like that for decades. Muslims are actively attacking not only Jews, and Christians, but Hindus, Buddhists, and of course, other Muslims.
How could this all be due to US mid-east policy?