This is one of the fundamental issues about how we are going do deal with IT technology in the fothcomming years.
On one side we have the choice of planned obsolescence, you know your software (no, sorry, using a wrong description here, the software of an external company) will be obsolete in a few years and that no matter what you either upgarde or pray for the best.
On the other hand you have software with no planned obsolescence that you can maintain yourself (you can pay somebody for that) if the need arises and the cost is right.
No choice at all or the choice to decide if you upgrade or repair in your own time under your conditions.
Hell, I am not going to give it a brake because I have seen how far superior a model of software develoipment and licensing allows me more breathing space.
Honestly, any company worth its salt should have in place a permanent training program.
If you need to migrate to something else, big deal, the training is already scheduled.
And tell me if I am mistaken, but the monumental amount of books about Windows XP and its software make patently obvious that you have to provide training any way since it is obvious tha the different incarnations of MS products are not quite as easy as people would like to believe.
But do not take my word for it, I have not used MS software for years so I may be completely out of step and MS software is now easier than ever to learn.
... then you are screwed. Great policy that one of yours.
I would say it depends: if very few of your customers face problems after the warranty, then yes, you may have a point.
If a sizeable amount of people have problems shortly after the warrante is over this may be perceived as mismanagement or willful misleading. If I had a dead machine on my hands 2 or 3 days after the warranty expires my first thought would be " bastards. they knew it was going to brake". If I am the only one, yeah, I may be unlucky. If I am not, they may be a trend that shows machines were not very well designed or the warranty offered was too short, take your pick.
- That considers creationsim worthy of teaching in science classes?
- That regularly has major publications analyzing the power of praying to combat ailments?
- That bans basic research (stemm cells) due to religious zealotry?
- That regularly has people complaining to magazines for giving Evolution to much credence?
Honestly, relative success in one very narrow area does not mean great successes in others.
You should also consider that the USSR was beating the US on space exploration until the landing on the Moon after that both countries remained pretty much on the same level, each branching on niches (the USSR created a fantastic body of knowledge regarding long stay in space, the US perfected low orbit flying to the point of making it commercially viable).
America consists of many other countries as well, so TV or movies produced by the US and Canada can't be accurately being called American in any sense.
Mexico and Brazil produce soap operas that are imported to Russia and the far east, thes countries, Cuba, and Argentina have a movie industry with a long tradition that has been badly damaged by cheap imports from the US.
So no, the US is not America, and the clearest indication comes from the name of the country itself...
In many places safety is a condition to allow for billboard installation.
When there are many people doing something dumb the only way to make them stop is making patently obvious that it is something illegal.
The enactement of these laws is not to nanny drivers doing dumb things, is to protect other people from the lack of common sense of others, after all cars are one thing that when misused becomes a lethal weapon.
It was enough to watch Margaret Thatcher paying a visit to Pinochet during his detention in London, and the unashamed attempts of the current Labour goverment (Labour! a party founded by Socialists nonetheless) to avoid Pinochet's extradition to Spain by all means to understand the shameful support that the UK gave and received from the brutal dictator.
Shame on the UK for that (which I say with pain because I have been welcomed here as a resident).
You believe tha the US may invade whatever place they please if that place is using its sovereing power to decide what to do with their own natural resources?
I mean, just curious, it is always good to know if there are nutcases out there that believe the US owns the world and all its natural resources.
... I can confidently say that such practices of abstinence have been abolished from the Catholic church for many years.
To each one his own, and you may want to talk to your priest, back home we used to eat and drink normally and the only concession we used to have for lent was to avoid red meat on Fridays. After a lwhile we stopped even that. My mother, allways worried about this matters, consulted somebody high in the hierachy of the Catholic Church in Mexico that happened to be her friend (and teacher of theology in several Universities in Mexico and abroad).
He said tha there was no need for following these practices anymore.
As I said, to each one his own, but it seems like other people in Catholicism have given up such practices.
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Do you mean there are people out there doing all this for no profit whatsoever?
No profit?
I pity them, nowadays if you do something for no profit you are clearly a fool.
This is one of the fundamental issues about how we are going do deal with IT technology in the fothcomming years.
On one side we have the choice of planned obsolescence, you know your software (no, sorry, using a wrong description here, the software of an external company) will be obsolete in a few years and that no matter what you either upgarde or pray for the best.
On the other hand you have software with no planned obsolescence that you can maintain yourself (you can pay somebody for that) if the need arises and the cost is right.
No choice at all or the choice to decide if you upgrade or repair in your own time under your conditions.
Hell, I am not going to give it a brake because I have seen how far superior a model of software develoipment and licensing allows me more breathing space.
Can your people point and click with a mouse?
Honestly, any company worth its salt should have in place a permanent training program.
If you need to migrate to something else, big deal, the training is already scheduled.
And tell me if I am mistaken, but the monumental amount of books about Windows XP and its software make patently obvious that you have to provide training any way since it is obvious tha the different incarnations of MS products are not quite as easy as people would like to believe.
But do not take my word for it, I have not used MS software for years so I may be completely out of step and MS software is now easier than ever to learn.
... then you are screwed. Great policy that one of yours.
I would say it depends: if very few of your customers face problems after the warranty, then yes, you may have a point.
If a sizeable amount of people have problems shortly after the warrante is over this may be perceived as mismanagement or willful misleading. If I had a dead machine on my hands 2 or 3 days after the warranty expires my first thought would be " bastards. they knew it was going to brake". If I am the only one, yeah, I may be unlucky. If I am not, they may be a trend that shows machines were not very well designed or the warranty offered was too short, take your pick.
- That considers creationsim worthy of teaching in science classes?
- That regularly has major publications analyzing the power of praying to combat ailments?
- That bans basic research (stemm cells) due to religious zealotry?
- That regularly has people complaining to magazines for giving Evolution to much credence?
Honestly, relative success in one very narrow area does not mean great successes in others.
You should also consider that the USSR was beating the US on space exploration until the landing on the Moon after that both countries remained pretty much on the same level, each branching on niches (the USSR created a fantastic body of knowledge regarding long stay in space, the US perfected low orbit flying to the point of making it commercially viable).
America consists of many other countries as well, so TV or movies produced by the US and Canada can't be accurately being called American in any sense.
Mexico and Brazil produce soap operas that are imported to Russia and the far east, thes countries, Cuba, and Argentina have a movie industry with a long tradition that has been badly damaged by cheap imports from the US.
So no, the US is not America, and the clearest indication comes from the name of the country itself...
The problem is that some WiFi devices can't connect to AP if it does not broadcast the SSID.
I got two USB WiFi devcies and they would not work until I re-enabled SSID broadcasting.
When you buy devices it is not obvious if they will work without the SSID being broadcasted.
Perhaps a compilation of devices that are more secure should be gathered somewhere.
Nowadays you can buy some decent champagne at very reasonable prices, it has stopped to be the preserve of the upper rich.
All that would be well and good if the US was not permitting the hijacking of names like Basmati or Roiboss.
All your quasi logical apology sounds hollow when you learn what US companies have tried to make of names like these.
For a second it seemedlike you knew what you were talking about....
... if they had included Vietnamese people's names as well.
We shall name the format OV then, that will make it equally good sounding.
Thanks for the above par suggestion.
... to see some people hating freedom so much.
That means people that care about freedom must be doing something right.
Did not you know that everything of certain merit that has ever existed was invented in the US?
This crimental will not go unpunished!
I have been running Linux as my desktop OS since 1996.
It was those "freedom as in speech" qualities that made me switch over in spite of the few hardware issues.
With the money saved in software I have spend more than most in hardware (compatible with linux of course).
.... or severely restricted.
In many places safety is a condition to allow for billboard installation.
When there are many people doing something dumb the only way to make them stop is making patently obvious that it is something illegal.
The enactement of these laws is not to nanny drivers doing dumb things, is to protect other people from the lack of common sense of others, after all cars are one thing that when misused becomes a lethal weapon.
Simple mental process.
And then you screw once and I am dead.
Thanks but no thanks.
... that they have sold only 1000 of those things...
Replaces an open standard messagin system for a closed one closely guarded by an international corporation?
Who are you? Bill! BILL! He is here!
Bill: you are a bastard.
It was enough to watch Margaret Thatcher paying a visit to Pinochet during his detention in London, and the unashamed attempts of the current Labour goverment (Labour! a party founded by Socialists nonetheless) to avoid Pinochet's extradition to Spain by all means to understand the shameful support that the UK gave and received from the brutal dictator.
Shame on the UK for that (which I say with pain because I have been welcomed here as a resident).
You believe tha the US may invade whatever place they please if that place is using its sovereing power to decide what to do with their own natural resources?
I mean, just curious, it is always good to know if there are nutcases out there that believe the US owns the world and all its natural resources.
There is not such a thing as caffeine addiction, the Wolrd Health Organization says so and so say health Ministeries all around the world.
/. fare that is great for dealing with some issues but crap while dealing with others....
This article is just typical
So your point is???
... I can confidently say that such practices of abstinence have been abolished from the Catholic church for many years.
To each one his own, and you may want to talk to your priest, back home we used to eat and drink normally and the only concession we used to have for lent was to avoid red meat on Fridays. After a lwhile we stopped even that. My mother, allways worried about this matters, consulted somebody high in the hierachy of the Catholic Church in Mexico that happened to be her friend (and teacher of theology in several Universities in Mexico and abroad).
He said tha there was no need for following these practices anymore.
As I said, to each one his own, but it seems like other people in Catholicism have given up such practices.