The future of education in the digital age? Courses unable to provide the information they are teaching because the anti-piracy laws mean only the original publisher of the material is allowed to talk about it?
For hundreds of years food and drink was regularly contained in a substance called "glass". Some of these glass containers have survived more than a century of regular use are are still considered safe and functional.
After drinking soda that had been stored from the factory in a glass bottle, I was surprised how the same soda out of a can tasted very different, and I rarely drink out of cans. Plastics then became common (in the 80s) and the flavor was again very different. The rare times I drink soda now I still try to get it in glass.
I understand this isn't a solution, but if (as a society) we have put convenience ahead of health and safety, then we shouldn't be ridiculing those who suggest we should have chosen a different path. It has been very obvious since soda was put in cans that the cans affected the contents, simply through taste.
The problem I have with all of this, from every side, is that it is costing billions of dollars that only the lawyers profit from; and the cost is being passed onto the consumers. As every company is doing it, you pay no matter which device is your preference.
I hope that something changes sooner rather than later. A decade will be too long and the problems the world is facing (financial, environmental and developmental) are going to get a lot worse in that time.
LibreOffice does a better job at pretty much everything, if you use it's native formats and then export to office at the end.
I am sick of being at work, having someone with MS Office 2007 create a file, send it to someone who is still using MS Office 2003, getting back a document with the formatting destroyed, fixing it, then sending it to the final user who is using the same version of Office, but set to use different defaults and then getting complaints that the document is broken.
Since moving to Open/Libre Office, this level of problem has nearly vanished, and when you want to send a final document, you send a pdf and offer to provide the original in any format the end user wants. Time spent fixing conversion problems drops significantly.
The only time I load MS Office now is to open a file that is so horribly embedded with MS Office specific stuff it is almost unreadable even in MS Office, and then exporting it to a simpler version an MS Office document so it will load in software that isn't incompatible with itself.
Nobody is asking you to lie, they're asking you to jump through a hoop.
I remember a friend of mine who had to check a box that he had "5 years of experience with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server"... in 2002. If he didn't state that he did, his resume would not be put forward.
I don't think much has changed since then; a lot of the time you are being asked to lie.
In my previous job my manager was asked to provide a list of keywords that would be used as a filter for resumes.
The list of keywords did not reflect what is in the advertised job description, so if you didn't guess the correct keywords, you were never going to get through.
More and more it's just blind luck if you will put in the phrases that are important, at the same time as writing something that will parse well enough to demonstrate good communication skills.
I am not planning to play GW2, but I have to say their actions with regards to this have been exemplary.
I would like to see this sort of behavior discouraged in more games. The only thing that I think would be better is to get the people who get their accounts un-banned have all of their characters have a flag that other players can see that shows they are exploiters.
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There is a subtle difference between what Google did and what Microsoft does...
Google probably gave the users being tracked the information they were after. Bing tends not to do that anywhere near as well.
There are no "good guys" out there right now.
The future of education in the digital age? Courses unable to provide the information they are teaching because the anti-piracy laws mean only the original publisher of the material is allowed to talk about it?
For hundreds of years food and drink was regularly contained in a substance called "glass". Some of these glass containers have survived more than a century of regular use are are still considered safe and functional.
After drinking soda that had been stored from the factory in a glass bottle, I was surprised how the same soda out of a can tasted very different, and I rarely drink out of cans.
Plastics then became common (in the 80s) and the flavor was again very different. The rare times I drink soda now I still try to get it in glass.
I understand this isn't a solution, but if (as a society) we have put convenience ahead of health and safety, then we shouldn't be ridiculing those who suggest we should have chosen a different path. It has been very obvious since soda was put in cans that the cans affected the contents, simply through taste.
The problem I have with all of this, from every side, is that it is costing billions of dollars that only the lawyers profit from; and the cost is being passed onto the consumers. As every company is doing it, you pay no matter which device is your preference.
I hope that something changes sooner rather than later. A decade will be too long and the problems the world is facing (financial, environmental and developmental) are going to get a lot worse in that time.
LibreOffice does a better job at pretty much everything, if you use it's native formats and then export to office at the end.
I am sick of being at work, having someone with MS Office 2007 create a file, send it to someone who is still using MS Office 2003, getting back a document with the formatting destroyed, fixing it, then sending it to the final user who is using the same version of Office, but set to use different defaults and then getting complaints that the document is broken.
Since moving to Open/Libre Office, this level of problem has nearly vanished, and when you want to send a final document, you send a pdf and offer to provide the original in any format the end user wants. Time spent fixing conversion problems drops significantly.
The only time I load MS Office now is to open a file that is so horribly embedded with MS Office specific stuff it is almost unreadable even in MS Office, and then exporting it to a simpler version an MS Office document so it will load in software that isn't incompatible with itself.
Nobody is asking you to lie, they're asking you to jump through a hoop.
I remember a friend of mine who had to check a box that he had "5 years of experience with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server"... in 2002. If he didn't state that he did, his resume would not be put forward.
I don't think much has changed since then; a lot of the time you are being asked to lie.
In my previous job my manager was asked to provide a list of keywords that would be used as a filter for resumes.
The list of keywords did not reflect what is in the advertised job description, so if you didn't guess the correct keywords, you were never going to get through.
More and more it's just blind luck if you will put in the phrases that are important, at the same time as writing something that will parse well enough to demonstrate good communication skills.
Also, all panels and discussions will be held with a 250-500ms latency, making the presenters actually being out of sync with the attendees.
Any confusion caused by this will be put down to "problems with your ISP".
Looking forward to the Oscars being blocked and going dark all over the world.
Though it's possible no one would notice.
I am not planning to play GW2, but I have to say their actions with regards to this have been exemplary.
I would like to see this sort of behavior discouraged in more games. The only thing that I think would be better is to get the people who get their accounts un-banned have all of their characters have a flag that other players can see that shows they are exploiters.