This isn't the first time that there's been a hurricane to hit the US. This is however the first time that people have died in such high numbers, or have been left to suffer for several days in serious lawless conditions. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's an observation of the available information.
I notice you forgot to address Bangladesh there or the fact that it's easy to leave New Orleans when you can afford a car. The evacuation buses never made it which, had the city been full of Republican voters, would never have happened. Why shouldn't the state help you out? The government has the resources and the money that the average projects inhabitant can only dream of. Are you not ashamed that the rest of the world have done more to help than the government of the richest country in the world. Hell even Cuba offered some support (childishly refused).
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Not really since those are the exceptions.
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Ahmadis in Pakistan who proselytise or preach Christianity are routinely persecuted. My source is from the UK government's Country Information Policy Unit. Not racist, merely true.
Really. There's no entitlement society in Indonesia and yet they were hit incredibly hard by the tsunami. The floods in Bangladesh also devastated the country and yet those people without a welfare state suffered terribly. Your argument doesn't stand up. It's rather pathetic that the richest country in the world could let a similar thing happen to its citizens. But then as Barbara Bush said "they're much better off in the refugee camps" or words to that effect. Your mindless prejudice against any kind of state intervention is showing.
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In comparison to most of the governments in the world. I'd rather be a Briton in Europe than say a Christian in Pakistan or a black man in the USA.
Yes I did study and if you'd actually read what I wrote you'd see that it's not the lack of programming skill it's the lack of experience. I took a C++ course earlier this year and got top marks, however no college course will give me the required 2 years of industry experience in that technology. Explain to me how I get that experience when I can't get a job in it in the first place.
Since it's impossible to get a job in anything else due to my lack of experience in any fashionable technology (15 years of systems development notwithstanding) I'd take a COBOL job tomorrow should one ever appear. I can take any number of courses and/or work on any number of OSS projects but at the end of the day if I have no corporate development experience in C++/Java/Visual C#.NET or whatever then I'm looking for an entirely new career since I have no IT degree and don't have the time to do one at night school or money to return to university full-time. VB at least might be a route back into IT, I'm not going to overlook it just because it's not considered cool on Slashdot.
In the 70s, 80s and 90s there were many, many COBOL jobs. Now there are virtually none. There are still plenty of COBOL-based mainframe systems about but most of the work is now done in India. So off-shoring has removed some work. Why wouldn't this happen to developers of any other languages. Certainly something like VB could be shifted abroad at the drop of a hat and it wouldn't be too great a stretch to see other programming jobs disappearing east as well.
Blaming the user for the flaws in the software is such a cop out. I'm pretty clued up on how to use Word as it happens, I can work around its tedious idiosyncracies very well, however that doesn't mean I don't have the right to criticise. Your comment makes it very clear why geeks are held in such contempt in mainstream society, rather than try to make software better you call the user an idiot. Feel free to point out why either of the two sentences you've quoted make me an idiot rather than a slightly frustrated user.
The market being occasionally being righted by the government is infinitely preferrable to amoral organisations being allowed to abuse the rights of their captive consumers. The problem is one of balance not of keeping the government completely away from the market. After all it was government intervention that created the modern corporation, therefore it follows that some intervention is required to ensure that they serve the public interest after being granted the rights that they have been. If corporate officers don't like this then they are welcome to surrender their limited liability at any time.
Well it only took Ralph Nader to make Ford behave a bit better. A market solution isn't the only solution, someone shouting loud enough and long enough to embarrass corporations into behaving is all that's really required.
Unfortunately $600 is a lot of money to people who don't have the sort of disposable income an unmarried geek in their 20s tends to have. I paid £80 ($160ish) for my Epson inkjet, I sure as hell dont have the spare cash for a colour laser, even tho the prices have fallen a lot in the last few years.
There's a great deal more than just Office keeping users on Windows. Third party apps, devices with Windows-only drivers, in-house systems written in Visual whatever, the list is very, very long. Shifting Office is only the first step in a very long process, Microsoft aren't the only company with closed, hard to decipher file formats, merely the biggest.
I find it complains about perfectly good grammar all the time and offers a suggestion that would make the sentence nonsensical. It is handy for spotting when I only put one space after a full stop (since our judges require two spaces - don't ask me I don't make the rules) but other than that it's not a great deal of use.
I think the idea's a good one but unfortunately it would be huge and very inefficient. VBA is fine for small to medium code but would be absolutely horrendous for all the permutations of an Office file. It might be possible in C++ using the Active X controls in Office but I'm no expert on that one. Microsoft should be doing it, but Satan will be buying ice skates when that goes gold.
Try doing anything non-trivial with numbering in Word and it goes seriously wrong a lot of the time as well and requires manual intervention. Automatic numbering is one of the clumsiest parts of Word and should be left out of this comparison since it sucking in OO just makes it the same as Word. Tables of contents are pretty shambolic in Word too. Try embedding a Visio flowchart in Word then generating a TOC and it creates a copy of the Visio chart as a TOC entry. I mean who the hell thought that piece of genius up. Auto text is also broken, what it's supposed to do is when you type the first four characters it brings up what it could complete it with, you hit enter and it saves you typing a very long string. However what it quite often does is have the string flicker and when you hit enter it does a CRLF. So although I'm not defending OO Word is very far from perfect and only sells because there aren't any real alternatives.
Nah they moved to the UK and started following soccer teams. Watch the World Cup next year and you'll see them engaging in the great British tradition of going somewhere foreign and trashing it, which will be especially popular with British Neanderthals since it's in Germany.
Is that an exact measurement:P There's always a black sheep in the family, X is ours, Clippy and Windows 'security' are Microsoft's and Apple have had so many baddies over the years I've lost count.
Well a Word document can change size quite a lot in the course of a working day. How does the FS handle a file that was 30k when it was first saved in the morning and 100k when it's finally saved at 5.30pm with several saves in between?
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This isn't the first time that there's been a hurricane to hit the US. This is however the first time that people have died in such high numbers, or have been left to suffer for several days in serious lawless conditions. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's an observation of the available information.
I notice you forgot to address Bangladesh there or the fact that it's easy to leave New Orleans when you can afford a car. The evacuation buses never made it which, had the city been full of Republican voters, would never have happened.
Why shouldn't the state help you out? The government has the resources and the money that the average projects inhabitant can only dream of. Are you not ashamed that the rest of the world have done more to help than the government of the richest country in the world. Hell even Cuba offered some support (childishly refused).
Not really since those are the exceptions.
Ahmadis in Pakistan who proselytise or preach Christianity are routinely persecuted. My source is from the UK government's Country Information Policy Unit. Not racist, merely true.
Really. There's no entitlement society in Indonesia and yet they were hit incredibly hard by the tsunami. The floods in Bangladesh also devastated the country and yet those people without a welfare state suffered terribly.
Your argument doesn't stand up. It's rather pathetic that the richest country in the world could let a similar thing happen to its citizens. But then as Barbara Bush said "they're much better off in the refugee camps" or words to that effect.
Your mindless prejudice against any kind of state intervention is showing.
In comparison to most of the governments in the world. I'd rather be a Briton in Europe than say a Christian in Pakistan or a black man in the USA.
And instead of having walk and run buttons you'd have mince and flounce.
Only if your taskbar is the standard size (which mine isn't)
Yes I did study and if you'd actually read what I wrote you'd see that it's not the lack of programming skill it's the lack of experience. I took a C++ course earlier this year and got top marks, however no college course will give me the required 2 years of industry experience in that technology. Explain to me how I get that experience when I can't get a job in it in the first place.
Since it's impossible to get a job in anything else due to my lack of experience in any fashionable technology (15 years of systems development notwithstanding) I'd take a COBOL job tomorrow should one ever appear.
I can take any number of courses and/or work on any number of OSS projects but at the end of the day if I have no corporate development experience in C++/Java/Visual C#.NET or whatever then I'm looking for an entirely new career since I have no IT degree and don't have the time to do one at night school or money to return to university full-time.
VB at least might be a route back into IT, I'm not going to overlook it just because it's not considered cool on Slashdot.
In the 70s, 80s and 90s there were many, many COBOL jobs. Now there are virtually none. There are still plenty of COBOL-based mainframe systems about but most of the work is now done in India. So off-shoring has removed some work. Why wouldn't this happen to developers of any other languages. Certainly something like VB could be shifted abroad at the drop of a hat and it wouldn't be too great a stretch to see other programming jobs disappearing east as well.
Blaming the user for the flaws in the software is such a cop out. I'm pretty clued up on how to use Word as it happens, I can work around its tedious idiosyncracies very well, however that doesn't mean I don't have the right to criticise. Your comment makes it very clear why geeks are held in such contempt in mainstream society, rather than try to make software better you call the user an idiot. Feel free to point out why either of the two sentences you've quoted make me an idiot rather than a slightly frustrated user.
The market being occasionally being righted by the government is infinitely preferrable to amoral organisations being allowed to abuse the rights of their captive consumers. The problem is one of balance not of keeping the government completely away from the market. After all it was government intervention that created the modern corporation, therefore it follows that some intervention is required to ensure that they serve the public interest after being granted the rights that they have been. If corporate officers don't like this then they are welcome to surrender their limited liability at any time.
Well it only took Ralph Nader to make Ford behave a bit better. A market solution isn't the only solution, someone shouting loud enough and long enough to embarrass corporations into behaving is all that's really required.
Unfortunately $600 is a lot of money to people who don't have the sort of disposable income an unmarried geek in their 20s tends to have. I paid £80 ($160ish) for my Epson inkjet, I sure as hell dont have the spare cash for a colour laser, even tho the prices have fallen a lot in the last few years.
Then why were so many libertarians up in arms about the evil government trying to level the playing field in the OS and Office market?
There's a great deal more than just Office keeping users on Windows. Third party apps, devices with Windows-only drivers, in-house systems written in Visual whatever, the list is very, very long.
Shifting Office is only the first step in a very long process, Microsoft aren't the only company with closed, hard to decipher file formats, merely the biggest.
I find it complains about perfectly good grammar all the time and offers a suggestion that would make the sentence nonsensical. It is handy for spotting when I only put one space after a full stop (since our judges require two spaces - don't ask me I don't make the rules) but other than that it's not a great deal of use.
I think the idea's a good one but unfortunately it would be huge and very inefficient.
VBA is fine for small to medium code but would be absolutely horrendous for all the permutations of an Office file.
It might be possible in C++ using the Active X controls in Office but I'm no expert on that one.
Microsoft should be doing it, but Satan will be buying ice skates when that goes gold.
Well you could just automate loading it into OO and saving it.
Try doing anything non-trivial with numbering in Word and it goes seriously wrong a lot of the time as well and requires manual intervention. Automatic numbering is one of the clumsiest parts of Word and should be left out of this comparison since it sucking in OO just makes it the same as Word.
Tables of contents are pretty shambolic in Word too. Try embedding a Visio flowchart in Word then generating a TOC and it creates a copy of the Visio chart as a TOC entry. I mean who the hell thought that piece of genius up.
Auto text is also broken, what it's supposed to do is when you type the first four characters it brings up what it could complete it with, you hit enter and it saves you typing a very long string. However what it quite often does is have the string flicker and when you hit enter it does a CRLF.
So although I'm not defending OO Word is very far from perfect and only sells because there aren't any real alternatives.
Nah they moved to the UK and started following soccer teams. Watch the World Cup next year and you'll see them engaging in the great British tradition of going somewhere foreign and trashing it, which will be especially popular with British Neanderthals since it's in Germany.
Is that an exact measurement :P
There's always a black sheep in the family, X is ours, Clippy and Windows 'security' are Microsoft's and Apple have had so many baddies over the years I've lost count.
Well a Word document can change size quite a lot in the course of a working day. How does the FS handle a file that was 30k when it was first saved in the morning and 100k when it's finally saved at 5.30pm with several saves in between?