So basically it's everything we didn't like in Mac Mini, except worse, and no hope for re-use of form factor in any device that has more than one expansion card, or faster CPU?
Great job, Intel, I thought, you will never achieve the level of idiocy on par with Microsoft.
I am not sure about Oakland, but in San Francisco you can often see hundreds of people dressed in footwear of unusual size and various impractically looking decorations on their clothes and accessories. My Casio watch is a much more practical "bomb component" -- I wear it on all flights and never was harassed about that.
Like it or not, MS Office is the most widely used office software package in the world.
And at some point slavery was the most widely used economic system.
Local government needs to serve the people it represents (mostly MSO users) more than it needs to engage in petty social engineering about IP rights.
Following this logic, government should also pay those people to buy more Microsoft software because it deserves such widespread use.
Citizens' need for utilities, civic infrastructure, enforcement of regulations, and due process of law trumps your desire for Open Office.
I am sure, no one was deprived of water because government officials refused to process an offer of a bribe written in Powerpoint.
Don't wanna be without your FOSS? Try a few weeks without working traffic lights or a safe water system.
If traffic lights can stop working just because someone can't read an emailed Word document filled with macros, the problem is not with software but with idiots running the place.
A more important question is, why government employees are allowed to edit presentations made by non-government employees? Presentations are marketing and propaganda materials, government may issue or receive them but is not supposed to assist anyone in producing those.
No. No. A thousand times, no. Basing your actions on what you *wish* other people would do is a losing strategy. You have to base your actions on what you reasonably project that other people in fact *will* do.
People will do whatever they are told to do often enough, unless they really care. And people don't really care about feeding Ballmer.
The problem is, the executives have an incentive to lower the salaries, make working conditions worse, reduce the quality and pocket the "savings" by paying themselves bonuses. After a few cycles of this, CEOs end up with tens of millions per year, workers are back in 19th century as far as conditions and salary is concerned, and company produces worthless crap.
Why everyone needs to learn English? If there is a decent real time translator, it can translate their language to English. For books and publications assuming there is a really good translator, it should not be a problem.
And they will all sount like retards to English speakers because most translators are not smarter than authors they are translating. With machine translation it's even worse.
Then all Linux distributions, plus EFF, should sue Lenovo, if for no other reason then just to show how much everyone cares. I would contribute to that if necessary.
If the greedy employers didn't increase the wages to track inflation, then inflation wouldn't happen, as no one could afford the higher priced goods. The reason inflation happens is exactly because wages *do* track with inflation on average.
Why? For inflation to sustain itself, it's sufficient that total income across the whole population increases faster than the total amount of goods produced, it does not matter if large percentage of population is left out, and can no longer sustain their former levels of consumption.
I remember more than one hyper inflation, not only in USSR but also in Ukraine and Russia
Those are the same process started with botched up introduction of private business at the end of 80's, and continuing after the dissolution of USSR in early 1992, an event with no significance in economic policy of either country.
it didn't matter if you had money, the question was can you actually buy anything with it? In USSR around late eighties and then in Ukraine in the early nineties you had to have 'coupons' and cash to buy anything, and this didn't help either. People just didn't sell, everything went to the black markets.
That was caused by the government creating a huge number of rent-seeking opportunities for private resellers (operating within "market" pricing and exchanging "nalichnye", consumer-accessible cash as the currency) that latch onto public production of goods (that operated within fixed prices system and largely in separate market with its own internal currency and price structure). Resellers hoarded the products in hope for cornering the market and dictating higher prices, public retail channels dried up despite production running full steam. If someone wanted to destroy the existing infrastructure of the public sector, be it physical or organizational types of it, there probably would be no method more efficient than those decisions, and many have a suspicion that it was the original goal to begin with.
Just because US ideologues deny existence of social classes, and redefine the word "clasas" as "income range" or "profession", does not mean that socio-economic classes do not exist in US, or are somehow different.
Manual labor bears very little relation to mental production.
For the purpose of structure of society and economy, they are merely different forms of labor, and they both are involved in production of various goods.
To the extent that "socio-economic class" is a valid concept in the US, it is determined by the long-term ability to spend money. The source of the money, as long as it is not immoral (e.g. Mafia hit man) is irrelevant. In particular, anyone who has saved money and put it into an interest-bearing account (or invested it) starts to earn money from property, and that includes most people.
This is an ideological nonsense, and its purpose is obfuscation of the conflict between socio-economic classes.
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So basically it's everything we didn't like in Mac Mini, except worse, and no hope for re-use of form factor in any device that has more than one expansion card, or faster CPU?
Great job, Intel, I thought, you will never achieve the level of idiocy on par with Microsoft.
I use Linux on my primary desktop since 1994.
Except, of course, none of it happened.
The configuration you are talking about, ALWAYS works in Ubuntu.
It's Casio A168, from the same series, however I look very much non-muslim.
Didn't you get the memo? Microsoft is now hell bent on destroying PC as a platform, so consumer PC applications need another class of devices.
I am not sure about Oakland, but in San Francisco you can often see hundreds of people dressed in footwear of unusual size and various impractically looking decorations on their clothes and accessories. My Casio watch is a much more practical "bomb component" -- I wear it on all flights and never was harassed about that.
^^^
The Fan Who Waited.
Like it or not, MS Office is the most widely used office software package in the world.
And at some point slavery was the most widely used economic system.
Local government needs to serve the people it represents (mostly MSO users) more than it needs to engage in petty social engineering about IP rights.
Following this logic, government should also pay those people to buy more Microsoft software because it deserves such widespread use.
Citizens' need for utilities, civic infrastructure, enforcement of regulations, and due process of law trumps your desire for Open Office.
I am sure, no one was deprived of water because government officials refused to process an offer of a bribe written in Powerpoint.
Don't wanna be without your FOSS? Try a few weeks without working traffic lights or a safe water system.
If traffic lights can stop working just because someone can't read an emailed Word document filled with macros, the problem is not with software but with idiots running the place.
...Ronald Reagan, Bill Gates, Andrei Chikatilo and other people famous for various forms of stupidity and mental deficiency, have the same traits.
In powerpoint? Those should be dismissed without anyone looking.
Republicans are attacking companies that mostly bribe Democrats.
A more important question is, why government employees are allowed to edit presentations made by non-government employees? Presentations are marketing and propaganda materials, government may issue or receive them but is not supposed to assist anyone in producing those.
Please post more Microsoft marketing.
Then kill all your friends and yourself.
No. No. A thousand times, no. Basing your actions on what you *wish* other people would do is a losing strategy. You have to base your actions on what you reasonably project that other people in fact *will* do.
People will do whatever they are told to do often enough, unless they really care. And people don't really care about feeding Ballmer.
Then it will be made not a standard. It was done with their HTML, it will be eventually done with everything else they produce.
Calling potential open source users stupid is not going to persaude them to use FOSS software.
Yes, it does if it's their bosses who make decisions. What in this case is true.
And requires expensive consultants to maintain.
And does not work.
(That's what Sharepoint is)
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ! ! !
The problem is, the executives have an incentive to lower the salaries, make working conditions worse, reduce the quality and pocket the "savings" by paying themselves bonuses. After a few cycles of this, CEOs end up with tens of millions per year, workers are back in 19th century as far as conditions and salary is concerned, and company produces worthless crap.
Why everyone needs to learn English? If there is a decent real time translator, it can translate their language to English. For books and publications assuming there is a really good translator, it should not be a problem.
And they will all sount like retards to English speakers because most translators are not smarter than authors they are translating. With machine translation it's even worse.
Then all Linux distributions, plus EFF, should sue Lenovo, if for no other reason then just to show how much everyone cares. I would contribute to that if necessary.
If the greedy employers didn't increase the wages to track inflation, then inflation wouldn't happen, as no one could afford the higher priced goods. The reason inflation happens is exactly because wages *do* track with inflation on average.
Why? For inflation to sustain itself, it's sufficient that total income across the whole population increases faster than the total amount of goods produced, it does not matter if large percentage of population is left out, and can no longer sustain their former levels of consumption.
I remember more than one hyper inflation, not only in USSR but also in Ukraine and Russia
Those are the same process started with botched up introduction of private business at the end of 80's, and continuing after the dissolution of USSR in early 1992, an event with no significance in economic policy of either country.
it didn't matter if you had money, the question was can you actually buy anything with it? In USSR around late eighties and then in Ukraine in the early nineties you had to have 'coupons' and cash to buy anything, and this didn't help either. People just didn't sell, everything went to the black markets.
That was caused by the government creating a huge number of rent-seeking opportunities for private resellers (operating within "market" pricing and exchanging "nalichnye", consumer-accessible cash as the currency) that latch onto public production of goods (that operated within fixed prices system and largely in separate market with its own internal currency and price structure). Resellers hoarded the products in hope for cornering the market and dictating higher prices, public retail channels dried up despite production running full steam. If someone wanted to destroy the existing infrastructure of the public sector, be it physical or organizational types of it, there probably would be no method more efficient than those decisions, and many have a suspicion that it was the original goal to begin with.
Just because US ideologues deny existence of social classes, and redefine the word "clasas" as "income range" or "profession", does not mean that socio-economic classes do not exist in US, or are somehow different.
Manual labor bears very little relation to mental production.
For the purpose of structure of society and economy, they are merely different forms of labor, and they both are involved in production of various goods.
To the extent that "socio-economic class" is a valid concept in the US, it is determined by the long-term ability to spend money. The source of the money, as long as it is not immoral (e.g. Mafia hit man) is irrelevant. In particular, anyone who has saved money and put it into an interest-bearing account (or invested it) starts to earn money from property, and that includes most people.
This is an ideological nonsense, and its purpose is obfuscation of the conflict between socio-economic classes.
/b/ never was good.