In the name of poor souls like me who lack the time to read at lower than +3... mod parent up. Otherwise, the high-rated comment that's a sibling to this one makes *no* sense.
I'd say they're NOT equally bad, because Capitalism accepts the existence of human greed and, having accepted it, turns it towards a good cause -- providing for people's needs, while Communism cannot deal with greed because it refuses to accept its inevitability.
Erik
IIAROAPCC (I am a resident of a post-Communist country)
Sadly, in much of the world, you do have to compare them, because much of the OSS-lukewarm semi-geek crowd that helped spark the fire for Firefox is using pirated copies of Outlook at home. Sorry, but that's the way it is throughout post-communist Central Europe, at least.
Ummm... because you're an ordinary mortal and don't have your own webspace somewhere, perhaps?
Because, in the case I case I was describing, tech support, having the image integrated into the message -- like saying "click [picture of button]" instead of "click the button that looks like Bugs Bunny on speed" or whatever is a lot more helpful?
A LOT of damn good reasons. It is indeed supposed to be a <i>good</i> thing.
There are many cases where you can communicate more -- and I don't mean a marketing message -- with pictures plus words than you can with just words. I do tech support, and I'm THRILLED when the person on "the other end of the line" sends me an HTML e-mail, because it means I can use the features of HTML mail to provide him or her a clearer, more visible explanation, and if that person has a decent Internet connection, I can even ask them to paste screenshots into their e-mails instead of trying to guess which client they have and how pasting attachments in it works, and then explaining it to them and hoping they understand.
I can vouch for this. On the other hand, with a very large company the "core competency" can be very broad without making that competency shallower -- in other words, a company like Microsoft could (if it really wanted to) be an expert in operating systems (huge in itself) and office software, including all the nooks and crannies involved.
Whereas my employers have trouble even adding CD burning without 3rd-party libraries.:0)
The nationality of those gypsies (living their umpteenth generation in the CR) is Czech, just as the nationality of a second-generation Czech living in the US would be American.
Sorry, you're on an international forum now... no matter how acceptable cheap comments about gypsies are in the CR, they don't fly far abroad.
That being the case, most people who have stayed away from XP (the majority of Windows users),
Do you mean for Office or for Windows? I see Windows XP as the user's system in a huge percentage of tech support emails I handle - mostly home users. Maybe the structure is different for business users, maybe you meant Office XP (I have less info on that, but I know it's often been panned in the tech press). But Windows XP does seem popular.
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> Slavery's great in the long run
:-)
May you never be quoted out of context.
e.
In the name of poor souls like me who lack the time to read at lower than +3... mod parent up. Otherwise, the high-rated comment that's a sibling to this one makes *no* sense.
> (BTW, am I the only one who thinks it's funny that the stereotypical macho hates gays but likes to watch porn involving two women?)
I do too. (And I'm hetero, FWIW.)
(And I, too, like to... well, never mind.)
Erik
Me, too1111!
I'd say they're NOT equally bad, because Capitalism accepts the existence of human greed and, having accepted it, turns it towards a good cause -- providing for people's needs, while Communism cannot deal with greed because it refuses to accept its inevitability.
Erik
IIAROAPCC (I am a resident of a post-Communist country)
Sadly, in much of the world, you do have to compare them, because much of the OSS-lukewarm semi-geek crowd that helped spark the fire for Firefox is using pirated copies of Outlook at home. Sorry, but that's the way it is throughout post-communist Central Europe, at least.
Erik Piper
Ummm... because you're an ordinary mortal and don't have your own webspace somewhere, perhaps?
Because, in the case I case I was describing, tech support, having the image integrated into the message -- like saying "click [picture of button]" instead of "click the button that looks like Bugs Bunny on speed" or whatever is a lot more helpful?
A LOT of damn good reasons. It is indeed supposed to be a <i>good</i> thing.
Erik
But in terms of real, non-technical end-users, HTML is what's out there.
Erik
There are many cases where you can communicate more -- and I don't mean a marketing message -- with pictures plus words than you can with just words. I do tech support, and I'm THRILLED when the person on "the other end of the line" sends me an HTML e-mail, because it means I can use the features of HTML mail to provide him or her a clearer, more visible explanation, and if that person has a decent Internet connection, I can even ask them to paste screenshots into their e-mails instead of trying to guess which client they have and how pasting attachments in it works, and then explaining it to them and hoping they understand.
Erik
Those cheap cars from Prague? Is that like those American cars from Washington, D.C.?
Skoda is located in Mlada Boleslav.
(Driving directions from (among other places) Prague, in perfectly comprehensible Czech, found here: http://www.skoda-auto.cz/visitmb/)
Huh? I didn't get this either.
I can vouch for this. On the other hand, with a very large company the "core competency" can be very broad without making that competency shallower -- in other words, a company like Microsoft could (if it really wanted to) be an expert in operating systems (huge in itself) and office software, including all the nooks and crannies involved.
:0)
Whereas my employers have trouble even adding CD burning without 3rd-party libraries.
The nationality of those gypsies (living their umpteenth generation in the CR) is Czech, just as the nationality of a second-generation Czech living in the US would be American.
Sorry, you're on an international forum now... no matter how acceptable cheap comments about gypsies are in the CR, they don't fly far abroad.
Erik
That being the case, most people who have stayed away from XP (the majority of Windows users),
Do you mean for Office or for Windows? I see Windows XP as the user's system in a huge percentage of tech support emails I handle - mostly home users. Maybe the structure is different for business users, maybe you meant Office XP (I have less info on that, but I know it's often been panned in the tech press). But Windows XP does seem popular.
Erik