Every manufacturing job that is lost, is one more well-off laborer that can no longer afford to buy whatever widget it is I dream up, when I finally dream up whatever it is that will make me a rich man.
Every manufacturing job that is lost, is one more job that I can't fall back to, if I never figure out some great invention that will make me a rich man.
Anyone that doesn't see this, and see it immediately, is a fool.
Yes, because magically there is always another industry to be had. For instance, biotech....er, oops, we're outsourcing that too!
At some point, there are no industries left. Anyone that doesn't see that is a fool. Of course, young morons that are busy trying on their fasionable republican identity, or that believe themselves armchair economists can just pretend that they'll be part of the 8% who manages to escape the sinking middle class somehow. Maybe you'll be a day trader, or an entrepeneur selling lord knows what to the indians. Is that how you imagine it?
Haha. Do not worry about how they spend the money that they take from you, worry about how they spend the money that they take from you that you don't even have yet. They're spending x10 what they collect in revenue, and whose pocket do you think that comes out of when it's time to pay the bar tab?
Dude, I'm not being sarcastic. If we somehow had "good" grammar correction, we'd all use it. I would, everyone, fourth language or first. What we have now, is a mindless hack incapable of catching anything but the absolute worst sort of sentence construction, and which tends to complain about even interesting grammar that you want to keep. Following MS's grammar engine, and your prose turns into a boiling little bowl of turds. It's pretty horrible.
So, supposing that MS actually had that, I'd have a hard time speaking against it. And before anyone thinks I'm just bashing MS, it's pretty true for any implementation out there. We just need to wait another 20 years for that feature.
Anyway, call me a cheat for disqualifying your submission, but come up with another one. I'm desperately trying to think of one myself and I can't. I suspect that if there is one at all, it's going to be in Excel and not Word (let's face it, Access is an even worse DB and Word is a wordprocessor). Kinda hard to argue with some fancy statistical function.
Obviously, linux developers should mimic windows down to every last shell command. Oh wait, it doesn't have a commandline shell?
You should learn. It seems tough, but learning it will teach you real skills, you'll be able to really use computers, rather than blundering through them. And if you're unwilling to learn, you'll probably be happier with an Xbox.
When talking about Office, these "extra features" are always some shitty eye candy, or turdly little wizard. If your project requires Microsoft's bizarre little attempt at grammar correction, then you need better employees, not bloated software that assrapes you with licensing.
Tell me, just which feature is it that you're suggesting could actually qualify for your point? Name any single feature, no matter how minor, from any of the 4 office suite components. I dare you.
I'm not bothering to google this for you. I've already read stories here from slashdot in the past two years, where this has occurred. Most of these companies do deserve to die, I'll give you that, though...
The average person, who has little technical skill, will only...
We are talking about the same person who owns a computer that, by every standard that matters, owns a computer more powerful than the supercomputers of the previous decade. That they have little technical skill is the problem. Mind you, windows does not magically alleviate that, but it does make them forget it. "Gee, it's almost like I have a skull that's not full of shit, sometimes windows does something like what I want, if I could only think a coherent thought! What's the difference between ram and a harddrive again?"
People with little technical skill will always get little out of a computer. It will only ever be a game console, or a word processor, or an internet appliance. This is true regardless of what OS they use, and linux just doesn't bother to baby them.
Commands like, "configure", "make", and "make install" ? 3 is a boatload?
Or since you were likely a mandrivel weenie, it was "rpm -i"... not even 3, but one.
And that's somehow worse than install wizards that have you click on 40 buttons? That are obtuse, indecipherable, and install things you don't want, like adware? The ones that refuse to do what you want, even when you know what it is that you want, because it assumes that it knows better?
Sure, keep windows. I know better than trying to talk a masochist out of pain, especially when they're popping a boner just talking about the agony.
Cheaper until the excel math bug costs your company hundreds of thousands of dollars. Office is garbage. I won't claim that OpenOffice is the answer, mind you, but I stand by that first statement.
Sarcasm. Note that the parent poster claimed they were all but equivalent.
Google's lone boycott of China wasn't hurting the Central Committee. And so far, it's the one mark against, no one can even name anything else.
They're the company I wish I could work for, if only I weren't a loser. Every time I hear some twerp on Digg rant about how ugly Google Video is, I want to smack some sense into them (I for one like simple websites). Oh well.
Maybe I should stop trying to be sarcastic on here.
I know what you mean about the ethics. Google started out in 1997, when IBM came to them and said "we need a search engine, and fast". Of course, Brin wasn't all that talented, and couldn't write one on his own, so he went to Yahoo and said "hey, let me buy this search engine off of you for $50,000, no one wants the things anyway". Then he turned around and sold it for $100 million.
Years later, we have google bundling all sorts of seperate software together, and constantly raising the price on them because there are no competitors. When some little search engine tries to get it's website registered, Google threatens to cut off ICANNs balls, and boom, that little search website only gets to be used via IP address. The list of abuses is insane.
And when that antitrust lawsuit was filed, who would have thought the DOJ prosecutor would be assassinated with a carbomb?
I don't think the two are completely mutually exclusive. Slashdot is both a business and a community, after all. But yeh, some people seem to not have their priorities straight.
Me, I'm working on something I hope will eventually be a business of some sort, but it first needs to be a community. I think there have been exactly 3 posts on the forums in the month of beta testing I've done so far, and this is with something like 50 accounts out there. Maybe the commercial aspect scares them off, dunno.
I'm using some face recognition software I found, but that's the extent of the machine vision I'm using. The rest... give 1000 people free accounts in return for letting them be the "AI". The novelty comes from the data model, which makes it possible to enter non-ambiguous data.
My SQL skills are far superior to any sketching skills I have. And, supposing you actually want to check it out, the webapp that people will use to enter metadata into the database is about as AJAXy as things ever get. Lots of little SVG applets all over the place.
Laptop, so no numeric keypad. Copied and pasted a straightup degree symbol, previewed, still didn't show. Not sure what's going on, but it was stripping the the thing, and it seemed to do it no matter what formatting I chose.
I can't speak for the rest, but I'm working very hard to make sure that porn is searchable in ways once thought impossible. This isn't just some silly tagging scheme folks, if you like, you'll be able to write SQL queries to return only those pictures where the girls legs are spread more than 45deg...
(For the love of god, will you let us use a few goddamn entities Taco? & deg; would be nice, you know...)
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Every manufacturing job that is lost, is one more well-off laborer that can no longer afford to buy whatever widget it is I dream up, when I finally dream up whatever it is that will make me a rich man.
Every manufacturing job that is lost, is one more job that I can't fall back to, if I never figure out some great invention that will make me a rich man.
Anyone that doesn't see this, and see it immediately, is a fool.
Yes, entertainers like John Fogarty will get rich selling their exotic music to the indian market.
Go back to sleep. Talk like this makes it hard for your masters to sell you out. You want global standards of living to be averaged out, serf.
Since when have we had a democracy? Last I checked, Kerry won the vote.
Yes, because magically there is always another industry to be had. For instance, biotech....er, oops, we're outsourcing that too!
At some point, there are no industries left. Anyone that doesn't see that is a fool. Of course, young morons that are busy trying on their fasionable republican identity, or that believe themselves armchair economists can just pretend that they'll be part of the 8% who manages to escape the sinking middle class somehow. Maybe you'll be a day trader, or an entrepeneur selling lord knows what to the indians. Is that how you imagine it?
No longer make anything, period. They outsourced all our manufacturing decades ago. What in the fuck are we supposed to sell them, pets.com stock?
Haha. Do not worry about how they spend the money that they take from you, worry about how they spend the money that they take from you that you don't even have yet. They're spending x10 what they collect in revenue, and whose pocket do you think that comes out of when it's time to pay the bar tab?
Haha. You think that they aren't?
People need to read this, especially if they're unfamiliar with what an MLM is.
Dude, I'm not being sarcastic. If we somehow had "good" grammar correction, we'd all use it. I would, everyone, fourth language or first. What we have now, is a mindless hack incapable of catching anything but the absolute worst sort of sentence construction, and which tends to complain about even interesting grammar that you want to keep. Following MS's grammar engine, and your prose turns into a boiling little bowl of turds. It's pretty horrible.
So, supposing that MS actually had that, I'd have a hard time speaking against it. And before anyone thinks I'm just bashing MS, it's pretty true for any implementation out there. We just need to wait another 20 years for that feature.
Anyway, call me a cheat for disqualifying your submission, but come up with another one. I'm desperately trying to think of one myself and I can't. I suspect that if there is one at all, it's going to be in Excel and not Word (let's face it, Access is an even worse DB and Word is a wordprocessor). Kinda hard to argue with some fancy statistical function.
Obviously, linux developers should mimic windows down to every last shell command. Oh wait, it doesn't have a commandline shell?
You should learn. It seems tough, but learning it will teach you real skills, you'll be able to really use computers, rather than blundering through them. And if you're unwilling to learn, you'll probably be happier with an Xbox.
Except:
When talking about Office, these "extra features" are always some shitty eye candy, or turdly little wizard. If your project requires Microsoft's bizarre little attempt at grammar correction, then you need better employees, not bloated software that assrapes you with licensing.
Tell me, just which feature is it that you're suggesting could actually qualify for your point? Name any single feature, no matter how minor, from any of the 4 office suite components. I dare you.
I'm not bothering to google this for you. I've already read stories here from slashdot in the past two years, where this has occurred. Most of these companies do deserve to die, I'll give you that, though...
The average person, who has little technical skill, will only...
We are talking about the same person who owns a computer that, by every standard that matters, owns a computer more powerful than the supercomputers of the previous decade. That they have little technical skill is the problem. Mind you, windows does not magically alleviate that, but it does make them forget it. "Gee, it's almost like I have a skull that's not full of shit, sometimes windows does something like what I want, if I could only think a coherent thought! What's the difference between ram and a harddrive again?"
People with little technical skill will always get little out of a computer. It will only ever be a game console, or a word processor, or an internet appliance. This is true regardless of what OS they use, and linux just doesn't bother to baby them.
Commands like, "configure", "make", and "make install" ? 3 is a boatload?
Or since you were likely a mandrivel weenie, it was "rpm -i"... not even 3, but one.
And that's somehow worse than install wizards that have you click on 40 buttons? That are obtuse, indecipherable, and install things you don't want, like adware? The ones that refuse to do what you want, even when you know what it is that you want, because it assumes that it knows better?
Sure, keep windows. I know better than trying to talk a masochist out of pain, especially when they're popping a boner just talking about the agony.
It *IS* broken. In this case though, people are still unwilling to fix it.
Cheaper until the excel math bug costs your company hundreds of thousands of dollars. Office is garbage. I won't claim that OpenOffice is the answer, mind you, but I stand by that first statement.
Sarcasm. Note that the parent poster claimed they were all but equivalent.
Google's lone boycott of China wasn't hurting the Central Committee. And so far, it's the one mark against, no one can even name anything else.
They're the company I wish I could work for, if only I weren't a loser. Every time I hear some twerp on Digg rant about how ugly Google Video is, I want to smack some sense into them (I for one like simple websites). Oh well.
Maybe I should stop trying to be sarcastic on here.
Noooo. Look closely, the parent poster did. I was being sarcastic, in case you hadn't noticed.
I know what you mean about the ethics. Google started out in 1997, when IBM came to them and said "we need a search engine, and fast". Of course, Brin wasn't all that talented, and couldn't write one on his own, so he went to Yahoo and said "hey, let me buy this search engine off of you for $50,000, no one wants the things anyway". Then he turned around and sold it for $100 million.
Years later, we have google bundling all sorts of seperate software together, and constantly raising the price on them because there are no competitors. When some little search engine tries to get it's website registered, Google threatens to cut off ICANNs balls, and boom, that little search website only gets to be used via IP address. The list of abuses is insane.
And when that antitrust lawsuit was filed, who would have thought the DOJ prosecutor would be assassinated with a carbomb?
I don't think the two are completely mutually exclusive. Slashdot is both a business and a community, after all. But yeh, some people seem to not have their priorities straight.
Me, I'm working on something I hope will eventually be a business of some sort, but it first needs to be a community. I think there have been exactly 3 posts on the forums in the month of beta testing I've done so far, and this is with something like 50 accounts out there. Maybe the commercial aspect scares them off, dunno.
I'm using some face recognition software I found, but that's the extent of the machine vision I'm using. The rest... give 1000 people free accounts in return for letting them be the "AI". The novelty comes from the data model, which makes it possible to enter non-ambiguous data.
My SQL skills are far superior to any sketching skills I have. And, supposing you actually want to check it out, the webapp that people will use to enter metadata into the database is about as AJAXy as things ever get. Lots of little SVG applets all over the place.
Laptop, so no numeric keypad. Copied and pasted a straightup degree symbol, previewed, still didn't show. Not sure what's going on, but it was stripping the the thing, and it seemed to do it no matter what formatting I chose.
I can't speak for the rest, but I'm working very hard to make sure that porn is searchable in ways once thought impossible. This isn't just some silly tagging scheme folks, if you like, you'll be able to write SQL queries to return only those pictures where the girls legs are spread more than 45deg...
(For the love of god, will you let us use a few goddamn entities Taco? & deg; would be nice, you know...)