Never been outside Greece for more than a couple of months so i can't relate to you my dear patrioti (but i can relate to the guy on the video...). Anyway, since most of my family lived in Germany for years, i wish you the best where ever you are (i hope it's some exotic place, but probably you may feel like that very often)... take care brother...
If someone can create a recursive sudoku solver, he can do other stuff.
O.K., if can also cook, i am fine with someone who can create a recursive sudoku solver.
What about a brute force password cracker with shortcuts?
What about it? Will that "brute force password cracker with shortcuts" help us cook our Greek mousaka? If yes then i am o.k. with it, lets use it dude!
Since a zombie apocalypse isn't coming soon, and food is easy to come by, i would actually prefer an expert coder.
O.K, i admit "a zombie apocalypse isn't coming soon", but since you admit "food is easy to come by" you must accept that cookers are more useful than any coder... just taste our Greek mousaka and you will forget all those code guys.
I've seen walking dead, and if that show is any guide for zombie behaviour and properties, it would seem to me that the military would have no problem taking them all out in a few days, and restore order.
As a (conscript, because all male Greeks serve in our military) ex-SF i trust the military (any military to be honest, USA's SURELY included, since i trained with them) for... almost everything - as most Greeks do.
Wow you have really brought into newspeak hook line and sinker.
Anti discrimination is not discrimination. In the same way that good is not double plus bad.
Making it illegal to not hire someone for reasons unrelated to job performance, such as skin color, gender and age is not discriminatory, and applies equally to all people.
"Anti-discrimination" IS discrimination because by "Making it illegal to not hire someone for reasons unrelated to job performance, such as skin color, gender and age" you discriminate against those who would have been hired instead - you just use (like "new-speak") an euphemism ("anti-discrimination") to force the discrimination and provide privileges to those who are hired for reasons such as skin color, gender and age, adding insult (this "new-speak") to injury (the obstruction of free will). I don't claim that such issues can be resolved without such conflicts, but society can survive just fine without all those euphemisms .
Some (specialized) enterprise (software-as-a-service) applications that become "cloud ONLY" for no reason at all.
The concept of software-as-a-service is that it is cloud-based, I'm not sure what the differentiation is that you are making between SaaS and "cloud only".
No differentiation, i just misplaced the "(software-as-a-service)"... and i missed a (fucking!) coma after the "applications", and better change "become" to "became" (i am struggling with my English - see my sig!)
Perhaps if you specified the actual product(s) this would be clearer.
I am not in the field (as you are from what i understand), so i can not name products: a (custom) ERP (SAP based i think) that is used from small-medium businesses in Greece, some internal public sector's (health/tax) services that went "on the cloud", etc.
Either because such (open or closed) alternatives don't exist (which is rare i admit), or more usually because changing -some major or even minor parts of- your enterprise infrastructure is not cost effective.
What would you need to change in your enterprise infrastructure to accommodate a non-cloud alternative to a non-cloud product over a migration to a cloud only product that would be cost ineffective? You are obviously referring to something specific so perhaps specifying exactly what you mean is better than talking in generalities it isn't making much sense.
I am not making much sense because i don't really know the subject (!)... at all (especially about the "cloud" issue)! But generally, as a former (non software) business owner, that was very dependent on IT, i can say that changing -some major or even minor parts of- your enterprise infrastructure is really problematic.
Why is the Prime Minister of Singapore in Alaska after the zombie apocalypse?
He arrived there just before this zombie apocalypse mayhem started, because of this stupid "sudoku solver code" conference that wanted him as a speaker... you know "Mister Prime Minister of Singapore, a coder, a sudoku lover, let us give him a warm welcome for being with us in freezing Alaska" - can you believe that?
I was not referring specifically to (cloud) "office suites", but generally to "cloud services" (i did not made it clear, my fault!) that may (as i mentioned) become "cloud ONLY"
Yeah that's fine but you said "it may (as it is often the case now) mean "cloud ONLY"", that threw me. I'm not sure what products have added cloud integration and then become cloud only.
Some (specialized) enterprise (software-as-a-service) applications that become "cloud ONLY" for no reason at all.
Again... i was not referring specifically to (cloud) "office suites", but generally to "cloud services" (i did not made it clear, my fault... again!).
Ok, maybe I'm on a different page on this to you but what are the usual reasons that prevent a move from cloud services to an open alternative?
Either because such (open or closed) alternatives don't exist (which is rare i admit), or more usually because changing -some major or even minor parts of- your enterprise infrastructure is not cost effective.
What i meant was that i fear the "cloud ONLY integration" (yes, i know, i did not made it clear, my fault... again!!!)
So you mean not an addition of a cloud services feature but a removal of an existing feature then replaced with a cloud services only feature?
Exactly that Sir.
I'm not sure I've seen such a thing happen but I suppose there's no reason it couldn't, though there's no reason a company couldn't just replace their program with a cloud-based one either, not really much you can do if they decide to do that.
Well, "the cloud" is good, "the cloud ONLY" (especially when becomes that way after you commit to an application) is baaad - even if alternatives to "the cloud ONLY" exist, changing to them is often (at least) problematic.
You forgot to mention that you are Greek and that you hate Europe and Muslims.
You are slipping.
Thanks dude (who ever you are, i guess some of the usual/. libtard who have a problem with anyone describing some things the way they are...): I am Greek and i hate Muslims (but you are mistaken about the "hate Europe" part, since the most important reason i hate Muslims is because i LOVE Europe).
You do realize that these systems are connected to the Internet? The same Internet that everyone else is connected to. The fact that the server is in the middle of the ocean is irrelevant. As is the fact (true enough) that a significant fraction of commercial shipping is run by Greek firms.
I suppose it being in Greek might be an example of security by obscurity, but it's just TCP/IP and the same Microsoft code that everyone else uses.
No, -most- of these systems are not connected to the Internet, not even between them and/or a central ship's system - usually they are just monitor and control systems with very little integration. I don't blame you because the article (and/. summary) was not good to begin with, so relax, everything is under control in sea by us Greeks (hey dude, some fucking Greek pride, don't hate me!)
but our former prime-minister had a restaurant... our great Greek dinner with mousaka,
Which one? You'd have hoped with that experience he might have had some idea how to balance the books. Did his restaurant go broke?
It was mister Samaras, the one who just lost the elections - (he claims) his restaurant did just fine (he had it years ago, together with a business partner, while studing in USA - yes, one more Greek restaurant in the States!). To be fair he did a good job as a prime minister in the elimination of deficit, he not only balanced the books, but provided a (significant) surplus. Our new prime minister...well...!
Yes, this "cloud integration" thing is getting on my nerves; i understand that the "cloud" may be useful in some cases (personally i don't have any "cloud" use case), but the "integration" part is the dangerous thing because it may (as it is often the case now) mean "cloud ONLY"
Where does it mean "cloud ONLY"? I've been using google docs for ages and the documents can always be made available offline and viewable in the app on my phone as well as on the desktop and downloaded and opened in libreoffice. The cloud part is for storage, collaboration and easier sharing, but you can do all of that in the offline (or non-cloud) way if you prefer.
I was not referring specifically to (cloud) "office suites", but generally to "cloud services" (i did not made it clear, my fault!) that may (as i mentioned) become "cloud ONLY"
not only because of the usual reasons that always existed
You mean format incompatibilities? I haven't seen any document that has any significant problems importing between MS Office, LibreOffice or Google Docs, maybe years and years ago but not anymore. Have you actually got any examples (or instructions on how to create one)?
Again... i was not referring specifically to (cloud) "office suites", but generally to "cloud services" (i did not made it clear, my fault... again!).
but also because the "Open alternatives" start to have... "more cloud integration"!
What's wrong with "cloud integration"? If you don't like that feature then don't use that feature. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it.
Nothing wrong with the cloud, i agree with you: "If you don't like that feature then don't use that feature. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it.". What i meant was that i fear the "cloud ONLY integration" (yes, i know, i did not made it clear, my fault... again!!!)
It might be a 'stupid sudoku solver', like you say, but at least, that is a program that does something, rather than the congress critters who do nothing but producing massive amount of HOT AIR
Imagine that you are a zombie apocalypse survivor, naked and wet, in a freezing winter Alaskan night, tired to death, and you can share a tent either with this Singapore's prime minister who wants you to stay awake with him and solve stupid Sudoku puzzles or with one of those "congress critters who do nothing but producing massive amount of HOT AIR" - who would be you choice?
Yes, he is a Southeastern Asian that leads by example solving Sudoku... or you mean the "code" thing? Well, (and since i can't claim all, not even most...) many politicians know how to do other things also - o.k., it is interesting for the/. crowd that he knows to code, but our former prime-minister had a restaurant... what would be more important for you if you were a survivor of a zombie apocalypse, a stupid Sudoku solver or our great Greek dinner with mousaka, some feta cheese and retsina wine, and a galaktoboureko for desert? I know what i would prefer!
As i Greek, which his compatriots control (including those actually Greek but under a flag of convenience) about 1/3 of the world's fleet (by any important metric), and since 9/10 of global/international trade is done by sea, i ensure you that Microsoft servers on the ships are safe enough (and -usually- out of a hacker's reach anyway), so you Apple iWatches will be delivered in time... thank Greeks and Microsoft!
Golden Dawn is not a "neo-Nazi" party, it is pure Greek NaZi (without the "neo-" part, what ever this may mean) - it is the direct continuation (with the "official stamps") of our older Greek NaZi party, the party of the NaZi dictator Metaxa... the one that was in power before and during WW2, and as an ally fought against... Fascist Italy and NaZi Germany (and Communist USSR - even if Greek Communists were strongly agaist the war between NaZi Greece and Nazi Germany because the NaZi Germany was still an ally to the Communist Soviet Union...)!!!
(heck, all it takes is a single look at their official flag to confirm that).
Yes... their "flag"... our ancient Greek symbol (Parthenon, and most of our other monuments, even those a century old, is full of it), that resembles the (ancient) Swastika (what we Greeks called "Gamadion")... i agree - they choose this symbol because it resembles to the well known NaZi symbol.
It's amusing when neo-Nazis refer to themselves as liberals,
Well, many things are amusing, and many are not so amusing... just don't be so amused with someone who wrote to you that he is a Nationalist BUT NOT Sosialist.
but don't expect anyone to be fooled
But i DO expect many to be fooled (and it would be THEIR fault if that happens after a Greek gives to them some info but they continue to believe that a Greek Nationalist is what they have made up their minds to be).
Things are complicated - there are two kinds of people: those who know everything, and those who ask Greeks for answers! If you are interested to know something that i know feel free to ask me my friend - i will try not to fool you (but you know what they say "fear Greeks and their gifts").
I am a Liberal (in the European -i.e., opposite of the American- meaning, i.e., an ANTI-Socialist/Communist, an economically/socially/politically right-wing... an almost "anarchist", if that term was not so mis-defined also...) -Greek/European/...Western Civilization!- Nationalist, that started (actively) supporting Golden Dawn... well, you -may- understand when, but -probably- not (without being your fault...) why...
I know of open office and libreoffice.
I just found libreoffice a couple weeks ago as i needed to open an old microsoft works file and open office does not support them
This may be a very polite way for you to call me stupid (if that's the case, then thank you Sir!) for writting "the Open alternative (singular, because in reality is just only one!)", but i will insist: both are actually the same, "Libre Office" (which i use) is just few code commits ahead of "Open Office"... any civil war (yes, yes, i know, the "fork it" spirit... ok, ok...) is not something to be proud of!
Stop speaking for European. You Greeks aren't . Not by legacy, not by work ethics, not even really by geography (if Greece is in Europe, then so is Turkey). And I really really hope your lazy cheating country will be thrown out of EU.
As i already wrote to you:
As long as Americans deal with the Muslims the way they did it in this case, i.e., the right fucking way, i will be a satisfied Greek... because we Europeans/Greeks become such sissies that Muslims started thinking they can make Americans their bitches as did with us... so, right now i am a happy Greek and you can write what ever you want about us... no problem!
Whenever I read "more cloud integration" or some other marketing crap like that my immediate thought is "How many people am I going to have to downgrade or switch to an Open alternative?"
Yes, this "cloud integration" thing is getting on my nerves; i understand that the "cloud" may be useful in some cases (personally i don't have any "cloud" use case), but the "integration" part is the dangerous thing because it may (as it is often the case now) mean "cloud ONLY" - unfortunately, this "switch to an Open alternative" is not an "alternative" option very often, not only because of the usual reasons that always existed, but also because the "Open alternatives" start to have... "more cloud integration"!
Office 2003 is the last Microsoft Office suite I used and I could not be happier with my choice.
I use "an Open alternative" to "Microsoft Office suite", but i am not so happy as you are. For simple things the "Open alternative" (singular, because in reality is just only one!) is o.k., but, i am sorry, for most advanced uses it is definitely NOT an alternative to the "Microsoft Office suite".
The writing was on the wall when they went "ribbon" crazy.
Well, "ribbons" (for which no good "(Open) alternative" exist also) are very good, provided that the traditional way (which is better in some cases) is not totally removed.
Well, "discrimination" (of any type: sex/age/race/etc) is "A Good Thing - brought to you by reality and its associate nature" - make it "A Bad Thing - a registered trademark of left-wing and friends" and you automatically create the euphemisms needed to keep reality and nature still working, because (ironically) any "anti-discrimination" is actually "discrimination"!
that though science and fantasy seem to be polar opposites, a Venn diagram of "scientists" and "Lord of the Rings fans" have a large overlap which could (lovingly!) be labeled "nerds."
Now imagine this Venn diagram with one more set for "people who know the DIFFERENCE between polar opposites AND the DIFFERENCE between science and fantasy"... wouldn't that make a great Euler diagram for all the "stupid stories for nerds, stuff that really don't matter"?
This cycle's slate of republican canidates is so packed with FAIL is unbelievable. Most tollerable in the pack is....Rand Paul, who at least gets a handful of things right. But put her next to Ted "Obamacare for the internet" Cruz, and of course yet another member of the Bush family. Yes Jeb is looking to run in 2016.
As a Greek i am used in political families/dynasties (in one way or the other we have a dozen such, running Greece the last century or so!) - the funny thing is that most Greeks pretend to hate it with passion, but it is done very democraticaly actually! I don't find it necessary bad since theoretically it can even be good, like an advertisement: "we [select dynasty] know how to govern [select country] since we do it from [select date] - a long family tradition, so you can relax and enjoy!"
From what i understand for the American political dynasties, it's not only the Republican party that has them, e.g., the Bush family, the Paul family (which, by they way, is a favorite of mine, both father and son), but you have them in the Democrats also with the Clintons, the Kennedys, etc.
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Never been outside Greece for more than a couple of months so i can't relate to you my dear patrioti (but i can relate to the guy on the video...). Anyway, since most of my family lived in Germany for years, i wish you the best where ever you are (i hope it's some exotic place, but probably you may feel like that very often)... take care brother...
If someone can create a recursive sudoku solver, he can do other stuff.
O.K., if can also cook, i am fine with someone who can create a recursive sudoku solver.
What about a brute force password cracker with shortcuts?
What about it? Will that "brute force password cracker with shortcuts" help us cook our Greek mousaka? If yes then i am o.k. with it, lets use it dude!
Since a zombie apocalypse isn't coming soon, and food is easy to come by, i would actually prefer an expert coder.
O.K, i admit "a zombie apocalypse isn't coming soon", but since you admit "food is easy to come by" you must accept that cookers are more useful than any coder... just taste our Greek mousaka and you will forget all those code guys.
Imagine that you are a zombie apocalypse survivor
I've seen walking dead, and if that show is any guide for zombie behaviour and properties, it would seem to me that the military would have no problem taking them all out in a few days, and restore order.
As a (conscript, because all male Greeks serve in our military) ex-SF i trust the military (any military to be honest, USA's SURELY included, since i trained with them) for... almost everything - as most Greeks do.
Wow you have really brought into newspeak hook line and sinker.
Anti discrimination is not discrimination. In the same way that good is not double plus bad.
Making it illegal to not hire someone for reasons unrelated to job performance, such as skin color, gender and age is not discriminatory, and applies equally to all people.
"Anti-discrimination" IS discrimination because by "Making it illegal to not hire someone for reasons unrelated to job performance, such as skin color, gender and age" you discriminate against those who would have been hired instead - you just use (like "new-speak") an euphemism ("anti-discrimination") to force the discrimination and provide privileges to those who are hired for reasons such as skin color, gender and age, adding insult (this "new-speak") to injury (the obstruction of free will). I don't claim that such issues can be resolved without such conflicts, but society can survive just fine without all those euphemisms .
Some (specialized) enterprise (software-as-a-service) applications that become "cloud ONLY" for no reason at all.
The concept of software-as-a-service is that it is cloud-based, I'm not sure what the differentiation is that you are making between SaaS and "cloud only".
No differentiation, i just misplaced the "(software-as-a-service)"... and i missed a (fucking!) coma after the "applications", and better change "become" to "became" (i am struggling with my English - see my sig!)
Perhaps if you specified the actual product(s) this would be clearer.
I am not in the field (as you are from what i understand), so i can not name products: a (custom) ERP (SAP based i think) that is used from small-medium businesses in Greece, some internal public sector's (health/tax) services that went "on the cloud", etc.
Either because such (open or closed) alternatives don't exist (which is rare i admit), or more usually because changing -some major or even minor parts of- your enterprise infrastructure is not cost effective.
What would you need to change in your enterprise infrastructure to accommodate a non-cloud alternative to a non-cloud product over a migration to a cloud only product that would be cost ineffective? You are obviously referring to something specific so perhaps specifying exactly what you mean is better than talking in generalities it isn't making much sense.
I am not making much sense because i don't really know the subject (!)... at all (especially about the "cloud" issue)! But generally, as a former (non software) business owner, that was very dependent on IT, i can say that changing -some major or even minor parts of- your enterprise infrastructure is really problematic.
Why is the Prime Minister of Singapore in Alaska after the zombie apocalypse?
He arrived there just before this zombie apocalypse mayhem started, because of this stupid "sudoku solver code" conference that wanted him as a speaker... you know "Mister Prime Minister of Singapore, a coder, a sudoku lover, let us give him a warm welcome for being with us in freezing Alaska" - can you believe that?
Do you hate any other people group? Turks? Black people? Jews?
What about you my fellow Slashdoter?
I was not referring specifically to (cloud) "office suites", but generally to "cloud services" (i did not made it clear, my fault!) that may (as i mentioned) become "cloud ONLY"
Yeah that's fine but you said "it may (as it is often the case now) mean "cloud ONLY"", that threw me. I'm not sure what products have added cloud integration and then become cloud only.
Some (specialized) enterprise (software-as-a-service) applications that become "cloud ONLY" for no reason at all.
Again... i was not referring specifically to (cloud) "office suites", but generally to "cloud services" (i did not made it clear, my fault... again!).
Ok, maybe I'm on a different page on this to you but what are the usual reasons that prevent a move from cloud services to an open alternative?
Either because such (open or closed) alternatives don't exist (which is rare i admit), or more usually because changing -some major or even minor parts of- your enterprise infrastructure is not cost effective.
What i meant was that i fear the "cloud ONLY integration" (yes, i know, i did not made it clear, my fault... again!!!)
So you mean not an addition of a cloud services feature but a removal of an existing feature then replaced with a cloud services only feature?
Exactly that Sir.
I'm not sure I've seen such a thing happen but I suppose there's no reason it couldn't, though there's no reason a company couldn't just replace their program with a cloud-based one either, not really much you can do if they decide to do that.
Well, "the cloud" is good, "the cloud ONLY" (especially when becomes that way after you commit to an application) is baaad - even if alternatives to "the cloud ONLY" exist, changing to them is often (at least) problematic.
You forgot to mention that you are Greek and that you hate Europe and Muslims.
You are slipping.
Thanks dude (who ever you are, i guess some of the usual /. libtard who have a problem with anyone describing some things the way they are...): I am Greek and i hate Muslims (but you are mistaken about the "hate Europe" part, since the most important reason i hate Muslims is because i LOVE Europe).
You do realize that these systems are connected to the Internet? The same Internet that everyone else is connected to. The fact that the server is in the middle of the ocean is irrelevant. As is the fact (true enough) that a significant fraction of commercial shipping is run by Greek firms.
I suppose it being in Greek might be an example of security by obscurity, but it's just TCP/IP and the same Microsoft code that everyone else uses.
No, -most- of these systems are not connected to the Internet, not even between them and/or a central ship's system - usually they are just monitor and control systems with very little integration. I don't blame you because the article (and /. summary) was not good to begin with, so relax, everything is under control in sea by us Greeks (hey dude, some fucking Greek pride, don't hate me!)
but our former prime-minister had a restaurant... our great Greek dinner with mousaka,
Which one? You'd have hoped with that experience he might have had some idea how to balance the books. Did his restaurant go broke?
It was mister Samaras, the one who just lost the elections - (he claims) his restaurant did just fine (he had it years ago, together with a business partner, while studing in USA - yes, one more Greek restaurant in the States!). To be fair he did a good job as a prime minister in the elimination of deficit, he not only balanced the books, but provided a (significant) surplus. Our new prime minister...well...!
Yes, this "cloud integration" thing is getting on my nerves; i understand that the "cloud" may be useful in some cases (personally i don't have any "cloud" use case), but the "integration" part is the dangerous thing because it may (as it is often the case now) mean "cloud ONLY"
Where does it mean "cloud ONLY"? I've been using google docs for ages and the documents can always be made available offline and viewable in the app on my phone as well as on the desktop and downloaded and opened in libreoffice. The cloud part is for storage, collaboration and easier sharing, but you can do all of that in the offline (or non-cloud) way if you prefer.
I was not referring specifically to (cloud) "office suites", but generally to "cloud services" (i did not made it clear, my fault!) that may (as i mentioned) become "cloud ONLY"
not only because of the usual reasons that always existed
You mean format incompatibilities? I haven't seen any document that has any significant problems importing between MS Office, LibreOffice or Google Docs, maybe years and years ago but not anymore. Have you actually got any examples (or instructions on how to create one)?
Again... i was not referring specifically to (cloud) "office suites", but generally to "cloud services" (i did not made it clear, my fault... again!).
but also because the "Open alternatives" start to have... "more cloud integration"!
What's wrong with "cloud integration"? If you don't like that feature then don't use that feature. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it.
Nothing wrong with the cloud, i agree with you: "If you don't like that feature then don't use that feature. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it.". What i meant was that i fear the "cloud ONLY integration" (yes, i know, i did not made it clear, my fault... again!!!)
Etsi ine patrioti... ti sudoku kai malakies... dose galaktoboureko ston lao reee! Don't kill anyone, just come to Greece gia na tin breis!
It might be a 'stupid sudoku solver', like you say, but at least, that is a program that does something, rather than the congress critters who do nothing but producing massive amount of HOT AIR
Imagine that you are a zombie apocalypse survivor, naked and wet, in a freezing winter Alaskan night, tired to death, and you can share a tent either with this Singapore's prime minister who wants you to stay awake with him and solve stupid Sudoku puzzles or with one of those "congress critters who do nothing but producing massive amount of HOT AIR" - who would be you choice?
Is a politician actually doing it?
Yes, he is a Southeastern Asian that leads by example solving Sudoku... or you mean the "code" thing? Well, (and since i can't claim all, not even most...) many politicians know how to do other things also - o.k., it is interesting for the /. crowd that he knows to code, but our former prime-minister had a restaurant... what would be more important for you if you were a survivor of a zombie apocalypse, a stupid Sudoku solver or our great Greek dinner with mousaka, some feta cheese and retsina wine, and a galaktoboureko for desert? I know what i would prefer!
As i Greek, which his compatriots control (including those actually Greek but under a flag of convenience) about 1/3 of the world's fleet (by any important metric), and since 9/10 of global/international trade is done by sea, i ensure you that Microsoft servers on the ships are safe enough (and -usually- out of a hacker's reach anyway), so you Apple iWatches will be delivered in time... thank Greeks and Microsoft!
Golden Dawn is by all accounts a neo-Nazi party
Golden Dawn is not a "neo-Nazi" party, it is pure Greek NaZi (without the "neo-" part, what ever this may mean) - it is the direct continuation (with the "official stamps") of our older Greek NaZi party, the party of the NaZi dictator Metaxa... the one that was in power before and during WW2, and as an ally fought against... Fascist Italy and NaZi Germany (and Communist USSR - even if Greek Communists were strongly agaist the war between NaZi Greece and Nazi Germany because the NaZi Germany was still an ally to the Communist Soviet Union...)!!!
(heck, all it takes is a single look at their official flag to confirm that).
Yes... their "flag"... our ancient Greek symbol (Parthenon, and most of our other monuments, even those a century old, is full of it), that resembles the (ancient) Swastika (what we Greeks called "Gamadion")... i agree - they choose this symbol because it resembles to the well known NaZi symbol.
It's amusing when neo-Nazis refer to themselves as liberals,
Well, many things are amusing, and many are not so amusing... just don't be so amused with someone who wrote to you that he is a Nationalist BUT NOT Sosialist.
but don't expect anyone to be fooled
But i DO expect many to be fooled (and it would be THEIR fault if that happens after a Greek gives to them some info but they continue to believe that a Greek Nationalist is what they have made up their minds to be).
Things are complicated - there are two kinds of people: those who know everything, and those who ask Greeks for answers! If you are interested to know something that i know feel free to ask me my friend - i will try not to fool you (but you know what they say "fear Greeks and their gifts").
Do you support the Golden Dawn?
Yes, i do - (VERY) actively.
I am a Liberal (in the European -i.e., opposite of the American- meaning, i.e., an ANTI-Socialist/Communist, an economically/socially/politically right-wing... an almost "anarchist", if that term was not so mis-defined also...) -Greek/European/...Western Civilization!- Nationalist, that started (actively) supporting Golden Dawn... well, you -may- understand when, but -probably- not (without being your fault...) why...
Things are complicated!
I know of open office and libreoffice. I just found libreoffice a couple weeks ago as i needed to open an old microsoft works file and open office does not support them
This may be a very polite way for you to call me stupid (if that's the case, then thank you Sir!) for writting "the Open alternative (singular, because in reality is just only one!)", but i will insist: both are actually the same, "Libre Office" (which i use) is just few code commits ahead of "Open Office"... any civil war (yes, yes, i know, the "fork it" spirit... ok, ok...) is not something to be proud of!
Yes, us Europeans and our left-wing "anti-discrimination/racist/nationalism/etc" gag laws... oh, sorry, it's about communist China...
Stop speaking for European. You Greeks aren't . Not by legacy, not by work ethics, not even really by geography (if Greece is in Europe, then so is Turkey). And I really really hope your lazy cheating country will be thrown out of EU.
As i already wrote to you:
As long as Americans deal with the Muslims the way they did it in this case, i.e., the right fucking way, i will be a satisfied Greek... because we Europeans/Greeks become such sissies that Muslims started thinking they can make Americans their bitches as did with us... so, right now i am a happy Greek and you can write what ever you want about us... no problem!
Whenever I read "more cloud integration" or some other marketing crap like that my immediate thought is "How many people am I going to have to downgrade or switch to an Open alternative?"
Yes, this "cloud integration" thing is getting on my nerves; i understand that the "cloud" may be useful in some cases (personally i don't have any "cloud" use case), but the "integration" part is the dangerous thing because it may (as it is often the case now) mean "cloud ONLY" - unfortunately, this "switch to an Open alternative" is not an "alternative" option very often, not only because of the usual reasons that always existed, but also because the "Open alternatives" start to have... "more cloud integration"!
Office 2003 is the last Microsoft Office suite I used and I could not be happier with my choice.
I use "an Open alternative" to "Microsoft Office suite", but i am not so happy as you are. For simple things the "Open alternative" (singular, because in reality is just only one!) is o.k., but, i am sorry, for most advanced uses it is definitely NOT an alternative to the "Microsoft Office suite".
The writing was on the wall when they went "ribbon" crazy.
Well, "ribbons" (for which no good "(Open) alternative" exist also) are very good, provided that the traditional way (which is better in some cases) is not totally removed.
Well, "discrimination" (of any type: sex/age/race/etc) is "A Good Thing - brought to you by reality and its associate nature" - make it "A Bad Thing - a registered trademark of left-wing and friends" and you automatically create the euphemisms needed to keep reality and nature still working, because (ironically) any "anti-discrimination" is actually "discrimination"!
that though science and fantasy seem to be polar opposites, a Venn diagram of "scientists" and "Lord of the Rings fans" have a large overlap which could (lovingly!) be labeled "nerds."
Now imagine this Venn diagram with one more set for "people who know the DIFFERENCE between polar opposites AND the DIFFERENCE between science and fantasy"... wouldn't that make a great Euler diagram for all the "stupid stories for nerds, stuff that really don't matter"?
This cycle's slate of republican canidates is so packed with FAIL is unbelievable. Most tollerable in the pack is....Rand Paul, who at least gets a handful of things right. But put her next to Ted "Obamacare for the internet" Cruz, and of course yet another member of the Bush family. Yes Jeb is looking to run in 2016.
As a Greek i am used in political families/dynasties (in one way or the other we have a dozen such, running Greece the last century or so!) - the funny thing is that most Greeks pretend to hate it with passion, but it is done very democraticaly actually! I don't find it necessary bad since theoretically it can even be good, like an advertisement: "we [select dynasty] know how to govern [select country] since we do it from [select date] - a long family tradition, so you can relax and enjoy!"
From what i understand for the American political dynasties, it's not only the Republican party that has them, e.g., the Bush family, the Paul family (which, by they way, is a favorite of mine, both father and son), but you have them in the Democrats also with the Clintons, the Kennedys, etc.