So, the intent, is also, just the same...downsizing. With it being done this way, it's not considered be as such in concept. Perception. The effect however, is the same. So, it is the same. Period.
Microsoft is no different. They are quite well walled-in as well, perhaps more so than others. They hold many people's data for ransom by making their products available for their platform the best, if at all available. No Linux support. Some Mac support. No iOS or Android support, save Skydrive. Not to mention so many industry standard protocols and technologies like WebDAV, SSH, etc. Or how about Internet Explorer. It doesn't follow with the W3C or the working group specs. Walled in..., more like, they don't even care about anybody else and what they are doing. They don't even want to work with others...still. The others may be walled-in, but at least they try to play nicely with each other.
Some may be good with basing decisions on things that may not seem mathematical in nature. The reality is, they often times are. We deduce things regularly. We probably all hated word problems at one time or another. However, we had to think algebraically in regards to how different parts of those problems related to each other, and then line them up accordingly to see the absolutes and come up with a solution. Then if there were unknown variables, we cloud look to see how the other absolutes would produce a consistency with the other parts of the equation, and thus, solve the problem.
Math is about problem solving skills. To say this is extraneous and unnecessary and baffling at the least...appalling. Again, we hear the cry to make this easier, cause things are too hard. Let's be lazier, stop solving problems or developing skills that will help us solve 'em. That's the solution. OMG.
I'm sure this is too much for political science people, cause political science is an oxymoron, and has little to do with logic at all if what we see in our government is what we get. Keep political science majors in the trenches. We should force even more smarts on 'em than the get already. They're bad enough as it is.
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So, the intent, is also, just the same...downsizing. With it being done this way, it's not considered be as such in concept. Perception. The effect however, is the same. So, it is the same. Period.
Well, it's users are the asset. And they're making it difficult for users to "Like" Facebook itself as of late.
Microsoft is no different. They are quite well walled-in as well, perhaps more so than others. They hold many people's data for ransom by making their products available for their platform the best, if at all available. No Linux support. Some Mac support. No iOS or Android support, save Skydrive. Not to mention so many industry standard protocols and technologies like WebDAV, SSH, etc. Or how about Internet Explorer. It doesn't follow with the W3C or the working group specs. Walled in..., more like, they don't even care about anybody else and what they are doing. They don't even want to work with others...still. The others may be walled-in, but at least they try to play nicely with each other.
Some may be good with basing decisions on things that may not seem mathematical in nature. The reality is, they often times are. We deduce things regularly. We probably all hated word problems at one time or another. However, we had to think algebraically in regards to how different parts of those problems related to each other, and then line them up accordingly to see the absolutes and come up with a solution. Then if there were unknown variables, we cloud look to see how the other absolutes would produce a consistency with the other parts of the equation, and thus, solve the problem. Math is about problem solving skills. To say this is extraneous and unnecessary and baffling at the least...appalling. Again, we hear the cry to make this easier, cause things are too hard. Let's be lazier, stop solving problems or developing skills that will help us solve 'em. That's the solution. OMG. I'm sure this is too much for political science people, cause political science is an oxymoron, and has little to do with logic at all if what we see in our government is what we get. Keep political science majors in the trenches. We should force even more smarts on 'em than the get already. They're bad enough as it is.