Even all that choice didn't make the spelling nazi's happy - someone was bound to complain that the correct spelling does not contain a U and that usage of Q shall bring on the apocalypse.
Those Austrians are just trying to confuse you.
Anyway, no one was talking about apocalypses. Just unprofessionalism and carelessness.
Reminds me of a guy I worked for. He made some amazingly stupid business decisions. When he realised he couldn't blame someone else he said "I accept full responsibility". That the staff all had wages delayed while he continued to raid petty cash for his personal expenses didn't seem like an acceptance of responsibility to me. He was always ready to share the pain; when there was a profit that went straight into his own pocket.
Face it: retraining 10,000 employees on alternative operating systems won't be nearly as cost effective as maintaining the existing Windows installs
The great majority of office workers know how to click three or four icons to start applications, and that's the limit of their knowledge of the OS. Give them an email and wordprocessing app that looks the same (and God knows Open Office is trying hard to clone the interface) and you're done. The small proportion that actually need to use a specific app can stay on MS till it comes time to upgrade, at which time the cost of retraining or converting the app is pretty much the same if they're moving to another OS. Of course, the whole point is that support costs should be much lower. You can argue about that if you like, but I think just on time saved on security alone it'll be no contest.
As a hobby, I sell some selfmade software through my website. On EBay, people are selling my software on compilation CD's
And meanwhile EBay will pull any auctions for MS software when they complain, regardless of the legal right of the owner to resell, because MS doesn't like it. (Yes, some of it is counterfeit, EBay assumes it ALL is.)
I wonder how long it will take for those functions to become a part of the open source office suites out there?
I know that questioning the motives of the disabled is a non-no; but I do wonder how much of this whole "Only MSOffice supports the disabled" spoiler routine is supported, encouraged and even (indirectly no doubt) funded by Microsoft?
Umm, I care which page it's on. How do you refer to a quotation, or worse a figure, so that other people can find it without referencing a page number? Do they have to search the whole ebook
If it's an ebook, I'm pretty sure the reader app will have a "find" function. Plug in your quote and you've got it. Actually, I've done this with Google Books to find quotes in ordinary books.
Mine didn't, and I have a mouth full of fillings (partly) as a result. Lots of people never see a dentist unless they have a toothache; especially the poor.
. But they're a dying technology and they're not dying because of a fickle or uneducated market, they're dying because they're horrifyingly large and difficult to maintain properly.
Maintain? I'm using a 10-year-old CRT monitor as I write; in my living room I have a similar vintage CRT TV. Maintenance consists of wiping dust off the screen with a damp cloth once or twice a week. Also, while my neighbours have their pretty, expensive LCD monitors and TVs targetted by burglars, no one is going to put my CRTs under his arm and hop out the window. If they did, I could replace it for less than $100.
It isn't theft if your employer takes away one of your paychecks.
However to you it might as well be theft and it is illegal. YOu provided a service for 40-60 hours for a whole week to the company and you should be compensated for providing it. Copyright infringement deals with people stealing works and depriving the maker of money. But still its under the same morale.
Yet another argument by analogy. Analogies do not prove anything, they only serve to illustrate at best. You say something is bad and a crime, then assert it's the same as something else, and thus it's "the same morale". By which I assume you mean "morally". In your mind perhaps. That's as far as it goes.
So would it be ok to take 30% of your income because you are paid alot more than the average Indian or Chinesse programmer?
Harm? I read a bunch of reports on this when it was proposed where I live. Basically, it's the "precious bodily fluids" people who oppose it. They talk about how corrosive fluorine is, and extreme megadoses. Most also seem to be Creationists.
There are 5 broad categories of wrongdoing: lie, cheat, steal, hurt, kill. All wrongs fall into one or more of these categories.
Really? I thought there were 10 Commandments? If not carved on two stone tablets, where did your "Law of 5" come from?
... Such activity is considered "bad"...
Now you're talking morality. Which is fine, but you shouldn't throw people in jail just because of a different definition of what's moral. Well, I wouldn't anyway, but that's my morals.
That is exactly his point, and you missed it. All the things this "character" does are not theft - you can't steal a seat in a movie theater, nor did he steal a spot on the train, nor did the subway or bus. Neither the movie company, nor the subway, nor the bus lost any material goods as a result of those actions. So they aren't theft.
In every case above the "perp" occupied a space that might have been used by a paying customer, or even maybe frightened them off. Also increased the overhead of operators (cleaning, fuel, etc). Not so for copyright infringers.
The point is that by not paying for something just because it isn't a material good, doesn't make it any less of a crime, and doesn't mean that there isn't financial impact. People seem to think that if it isn't a physical stolen piece of property that nobody is hurt, but it isn't true.
You put these statements together, but they don't follow. Things are listed that are crimes but not physical theft, then you conclude that something that is not physical theft is a crime. Also the claim that somebody is hurt comes out of nowhere.
But then I spend most of the rest of my time turning animal skins into clothing, finding secure shelter, and looking for new hunting & foraging grounds.
The figure I'm quoting, from memory, was 20 hours work all told. The rest was cultural activity, goofing off, playing. Hunter-gatherers didn't search for "new" hunting grounds; unless disaster overtook them they had a sequence of places they moved to seasonally.
Unless you'd care to elaborate on what lasting cultural contributions hunter gatherer societies made to future generations in all that free time they had?
Obviously, everything. They invented the whole concepts of art, tools, language, religion.
Well, I suppose you're off to the Amazon jungle to live in paradise, then? Let us know how it works out.
Now all the good land is taken up by agriculture and industry and cities. Only marginal land, desert, maybe some jungles as you mention, are hunter gatherers still scraping a living. It's not possible to live that way any more. But again you miss my point, which is not advocating a return to the stone age (for which I am certainly unsuited), but that we "work" much more -- at the expense of time with family, sleeping, exercise -- now. Whether industrial (or post-industrial) life is worth the price we pay for it is another question; though regardless it's not easy to opt out.
Excuse me? A "comfortable" lifestyle? This assumes that you call dying by your mid-30's, constantly foraging and hunting for food, living in temporary shelters or caves, and other such primitive accoutrements "comfortable" living.
No it doesn't. Yeah, life was tough, but not as bad as you say. I can't give you sources, this is stuff I read years ago, so doubt if you want; but many hunter gatherer societies had a pretty easy time, few diseases because of low population density, healthy diet, and while infant mortality was higher than ours, once past infancy they could expect to live to their 50s. (Better than Russians these days...) But how easy their life was wasn't my major point, it was your assertion than the number of hours worked has always been as high as it is now. That is quite untrue. Even agricutural societies usually had times of heavy work, like harvest or planting, balanced by weeks or months of comparative leisure (unless of course they were drafted by the aristocracy to join an army, build a pyramid, etc).
It's often hard for middle-class Westerners to grasp, but it's the exception for humans not to work constantly for needed resources,
No, quite untrue. Developed countries working hours have increased markedly in the last 50 years. The average hunter-gatherer had to work maybe 20 hours a week to have a comfortable lifestyle. However, third-world labourers get both long hours and low pay as their countries industrialise, maybe the next generation will get a share of the wealth. Now they're just working harder than their parents and barely surviving.
I should say that the work ethic there is so strong relative to many North American and European countries that this is more of a non-issue. I don't know, but have Slashdotters heard much about "Asian parents"?
I live in Hong Kong, I've visited Chinese factories. There is nothing about "work ethic" as perhaps practised by Chinese immigrants trying to get ahead. Chinese factories are the prototypical sweatshops; many would easily pass for Dickensian "Satanic mills". When there's a deadline, the staff are told they have compulsory, unpaid overtime. The doors are often locked. (There have been many tragedies when fires break out and the exits are all locked.) Wages are often withheld. Troublemakers (eg, union organisers) may be arrested by police or just beaten up.
As a high-schooler, that concept is one of the most frequently repeated ones in my [predominantly Asian] high school.
Thank your parents for your opportunity. Few Chinese have your luck.
Of course enjoying the fruits of someone's work without paying for it (when they expect to be paid) isn't theft!
Yes, you're right! I don't have time now to read the rest of your excellent comment, but it's good to see that some people at least understand the difference betwen "theft" and "infringement".
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It'll probably get on his credit record and be something he has to explain every time he wants to borrow money, get a credit card, etc.
Those Austrians are just trying to confuse you.
Anyway, no one was talking about apocalypses. Just unprofessionalism and carelessness.
Reminds me of a guy I worked for. He made some amazingly stupid business decisions. When he realised he couldn't blame someone else he said "I accept full responsibility". That the staff all had wages delayed while he continued to raid petty cash for his personal expenses didn't seem like an acceptance of responsibility to me. He was always ready to share the pain; when there was a profit that went straight into his own pocket.
The great majority of office workers know how to click three or four icons to start applications, and that's the limit of their knowledge of the OS. Give them an email and wordprocessing app that looks the same (and God knows Open Office is trying hard to clone the interface) and you're done. The small proportion that actually need to use a specific app can stay on MS till it comes time to upgrade, at which time the cost of retraining or converting the app is pretty much the same if they're moving to another OS. Of course, the whole point is that support costs should be much lower. You can argue about that if you like, but I think just on time saved on security alone it'll be no contest.
The submitter and editors are supposed to RTFA, not just guess. It's the first word of the story.
And meanwhile EBay will pull any auctions for MS software when they complain, regardless of the legal right of the owner to resell, because MS doesn't like it. (Yes, some of it is counterfeit, EBay assumes it ALL is.)
That is, or should be, a function of the OS.
I know that questioning the motives of the disabled is a non-no; but I do wonder how much of this whole "Only MSOffice supports the disabled" spoiler routine is supported, encouraged and even (indirectly no doubt) funded by Microsoft?
I was being only slightly facetious. Anyway, I'm sure Paul Mccartney would prefer you buy their CDs and rip it yourself.
Because (Beatles) Apple hates (iPod) Apple.
If it's an ebook, I'm pretty sure the reader app will have a "find" function. Plug in your quote and you've got it. Actually, I've done this with Google Books to find quotes in ordinary books.
You won't find any Communists in China under 75 these days. Mao died 30 years ago and Communism shortly after.
Mine didn't, and I have a mouth full of fillings (partly) as a result. Lots of people never see a dentist unless they have a toothache; especially the poor.
Maintain? I'm using a 10-year-old CRT monitor as I write; in my living room I have a similar vintage CRT TV. Maintenance consists of wiping dust off the screen with a damp cloth once or twice a week. Also, while my neighbours have their pretty, expensive LCD monitors and TVs targetted by burglars, no one is going to put my CRTs under his arm and hop out the window. If they did, I could replace it for less than $100.
Yet another argument by analogy. Analogies do not prove anything, they only serve to illustrate at best. You say something is bad and a crime, then assert it's the same as something else, and thus it's "the same morale". By which I assume you mean "morally". In your mind perhaps. That's as far as it goes.
So would it be ok to take 30% of your income because you are paid alot more than the average Indian or Chinesse programmer?
Is this a variation of the Chewbacca defense?
Harm? I read a bunch of reports on this when it was proposed where I live. Basically, it's the "precious bodily fluids" people who oppose it. They talk about how corrosive fluorine is, and extreme megadoses. Most also seem to be Creationists.
to save the ignorant few?
Children can't self-medicate fluoride.
In absurdly high doses. In high, but safe, doses, you get teeth mottling first.
Far better to supplement with fluoride supplements of some type or use topical dental fluoride if your MD or dentists seems it necessary.
Leave it up to supplements and dentists and those who need it most don't get it.
Really? I thought there were 10 Commandments? If not carved on two stone tablets, where did your "Law of 5" come from?
Now you're talking morality. Which is fine, but you shouldn't throw people in jail just because of a different definition of what's moral. Well, I wouldn't anyway, but that's my morals.
In every case above the "perp" occupied a space that might have been used by a paying customer, or even maybe frightened them off. Also increased the overhead of operators (cleaning, fuel, etc). Not so for copyright infringers.
The point is that by not paying for something just because it isn't a material good, doesn't make it any less of a crime, and doesn't mean that there isn't financial impact. People seem to think that if it isn't a physical stolen piece of property that nobody is hurt, but it isn't true.
You put these statements together, but they don't follow. Things are listed that are crimes but not physical theft, then you conclude that something that is not physical theft is a crime. Also the claim that somebody is hurt comes out of nowhere.
The figure I'm quoting, from memory, was 20 hours work all told. The rest was cultural activity, goofing off, playing. Hunter-gatherers didn't search for "new" hunting grounds; unless disaster overtook them they had a sequence of places they moved to seasonally.
Unless you'd care to elaborate on what lasting cultural contributions hunter gatherer societies made to future generations in all that free time they had?
Obviously, everything. They invented the whole concepts of art, tools, language, religion.
Now all the good land is taken up by agriculture and industry and cities. Only marginal land, desert, maybe some jungles as you mention, are hunter gatherers still scraping a living. It's not possible to live that way any more. But again you miss my point, which is not advocating a return to the stone age (for which I am certainly unsuited), but that we "work" much more -- at the expense of time with family, sleeping, exercise -- now. Whether industrial (or post-industrial) life is worth the price we pay for it is another question; though regardless it's not easy to opt out.
No it doesn't. Yeah, life was tough, but not as bad as you say. I can't give you sources, this is stuff I read years ago, so doubt if you want; but many hunter gatherer societies had a pretty easy time, few diseases because of low population density, healthy diet, and while infant mortality was higher than ours, once past infancy they could expect to live to their 50s. (Better than Russians these days...) But how easy their life was wasn't my major point, it was your assertion than the number of hours worked has always been as high as it is now. That is quite untrue. Even agricutural societies usually had times of heavy work, like harvest or planting, balanced by weeks or months of comparative leisure (unless of course they were drafted by the aristocracy to join an army, build a pyramid, etc).
No, quite untrue. Developed countries working hours have increased markedly in the last 50 years. The average hunter-gatherer had to work maybe 20 hours a week to have a comfortable lifestyle. However, third-world labourers get both long hours and low pay as their countries industrialise, maybe the next generation will get a share of the wealth. Now they're just working harder than their parents and barely surviving.
I live in Hong Kong, I've visited Chinese factories. There is nothing about "work ethic" as perhaps practised by Chinese immigrants trying to get ahead. Chinese factories are the prototypical sweatshops; many would easily pass for Dickensian "Satanic mills". When there's a deadline, the staff are told they have compulsory, unpaid overtime. The doors are often locked. (There have been many tragedies when fires break out and the exits are all locked.) Wages are often withheld. Troublemakers (eg, union organisers) may be arrested by police or just beaten up.
As a high-schooler, that concept is one of the most frequently repeated ones in my [predominantly Asian] high school.
Thank your parents for your opportunity. Few Chinese have your luck.
Yes, you're right! I don't have time now to read the rest of your excellent comment, but it's good to see that some people at least understand the difference betwen "theft" and "infringement".