— call it MicroHP — and what do you have"?
Bankruptcy?
I'm sure google would love a merger: two top heavy companies doing everything they can to kill R&D. Then again, I guess HP could undercut everyone on Microsoft licenses.
enforced by religious leaders that don't follow the religion. Most of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia in particular, have a minuscule number of ultra wealthy Sheiks, a tiny middle class that serves them, and a huge number of ultra-poor kept that way by a constant state of terror and total control of the media on the part of the Sheiks.
I'm tired of Bureaucracy being blamed for good 'ole fashion political corruption. Did it ever occur to any one that the Bureaucrats just do what they're told, and it's the elected officials ramming this through? It's like when New Orleans was destroyed in floods. Everybody blamed the guy that ran FEMA, and nobody pointed out the he was just an organizer for the flood response, and he had not authority to order the Nation Guard in to shore up the levies. Also, nobody asked why the National Guard wasn't shoring up the levies early on (hint: they were all deployed in Iraq, still are too).
Mark my words, this anti-Bureaucrat nonsense is the start of a class war to pit private employees against public so the rich can drop all our wages without us noticing. You'll be too busy wondering why the public sector employees have it so good to ask why you've got it so bad...
At least, that's why I've heard. The issue is that the documents Microsoft Office makes don't confirm to the OOXML standard. Programs that perfectly implement the OOXML standard can't ready documents created by MS-Word.
If I'm running a mid size company and I hire an ad agency that gets paid for referrals (and it's a fly by night LLC), I'm really venerable now. I guess the anti-spam crowd will tell me not to hire a fly-by-night, but don't most successful businesses start that way? And how am I suppose to know?
When did I miss this? I agree the export regs on open source software are kinda silly (Iranians couldn't possible figure out what an Anonymous Proxy is, right?). But I didn't even notice this happening. Our country's rhetoric hasn't changed one bit (they're still the enemy), but here we are dropping export regulations. Our news media really does suck, this shoulda been bigger news. And the papers wonder why no one's buying. What's the point if you're just going to report the (corporate) party line?
and the notion that you can get super rich coming from humble beginnings. That said, the funny part is Bill Gates comes from money. His day was a rich, well connected business lawyer whose experience & connections gave Bill what he needed to succeed, and the 1 million dollar trust fund in 1970 didn't hurt either. I guess the illusion is all that counts.
..oh, I don't know, The Chinese. Jesus, I'm so sick of this damn 'American Exceptionalism' crap. Americans are not inherently better than the rest of the world. We just got lucky, that's all (2 week neighbors, easily conquered natives, etc). The world doesn't need us, except as a source of food, and the super-rich aren't going to let poor Americans eat when it's more profitable to sell the food to China.
I didn't think you could patent broad concepts. They haven't got any concrete work done. Heck, I haven't taken a biology class in 10 years and I can come up with this stuff.
and tablet computing too. A status bar, address bar, book mark bar, menu bar, search bar and wet bar all make sense on a 1600x1300 res screen. Less so at 800x600...
It's about consistency. FF on your computer should behave like FF on your phone and your tablet.
they're too expensive to house, and when they inevitably get murders in jail the family sues. We're not letting these ppl out to be kind, we're doing it because private run prisons want a nice, quiet non-violent drug offender that does his time and is a perfect little profit center.
And I'll add to it that McDonald's donesn't pay for training, you do. In the form of your tax dollars. McDonald's gets massive tax breaks for all that 'training', which in turn pay for it. Socialism for the right, capitalism for the poor.
...and now that expense is being put onto the worker. Whether or not you need one is irrelevant. It's like a car: Sure, you it's not mentioned in the job description, but good luck getting hired if you don't have one.
300 people are responsible for making 18 million CDs/month. I saw another story about a sleeping bag factory cranking out 20 million bags a year with 500 empoloyees for the whole company. I read somewhere that American manufacturing capacity is the highest it's ever been. What are we going to do with all these people. I keep hearing 'Well, the world needs ditch diggers too'. No, no it doesn not... I guess we can let them starve to death in the streets.
makes sense. When I was a kid doing well in school meant you were a nerd & a loser. Other countries don't allow that to happen. But we've got to devalue education so we can slash funding you know.
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— call it MicroHP — and what do you have"? Bankruptcy?
I'm sure google would love a merger: two top heavy companies doing everything they can to kill R&D. Then again, I guess HP could undercut everyone on Microsoft licenses.
enforced by religious leaders that don't follow the religion. Most of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia in particular, have a minuscule number of ultra wealthy Sheiks, a tiny middle class that serves them, and a huge number of ultra-poor kept that way by a constant state of terror and total control of the media on the part of the Sheiks.
the second mouse button.
I kid, I kid!
or as I like to call it, DINO (Duke in Name Only).
every time the gov't did something I didn't like.
I'm tired of Bureaucracy being blamed for good 'ole fashion political corruption. Did it ever occur to any one that the Bureaucrats just do what they're told, and it's the elected officials ramming this through? It's like when New Orleans was destroyed in floods. Everybody blamed the guy that ran FEMA, and nobody pointed out the he was just an organizer for the flood response, and he had not authority to order the Nation Guard in to shore up the levies. Also, nobody asked why the National Guard wasn't shoring up the levies early on (hint: they were all deployed in Iraq, still are too).
Mark my words, this anti-Bureaucrat nonsense is the start of a class war to pit private employees against public so the rich can drop all our wages without us noticing. You'll be too busy wondering why the public sector employees have it so good to ask why you've got it so bad...
At least, that's why I've heard. The issue is that the documents Microsoft Office makes don't confirm to the OOXML standard. Programs that perfectly implement the OOXML standard can't ready documents created by MS-Word.
and don't have any. I prefer to remember the world the way I wanted it to be, instead of the way it was.
If I'm running a mid size company and I hire an ad agency that gets paid for referrals (and it's a fly by night LLC), I'm really venerable now. I guess the anti-spam crowd will tell me not to hire a fly-by-night, but don't most successful businesses start that way? And how am I suppose to know?
It's tough to keep track of which phone's a Motorola, since the companies tend to brand stuff weirdly in the Cell phone world.
When did I miss this? I agree the export regs on open source software are kinda silly (Iranians couldn't possible figure out what an Anonymous Proxy is, right?). But I didn't even notice this happening. Our country's rhetoric hasn't changed one bit (they're still the enemy), but here we are dropping export regulations. Our news media really does suck, this shoulda been bigger news. And the papers wonder why no one's buying. What's the point if you're just going to report the (corporate) party line?
stop voting Republican. I know the Dems aren't exactly saints, but at least the leader of their party was opposed to this!
The Chinese have a growing middle class. They are solving that problem.
and the notion that you can get super rich coming from humble beginnings. That said, the funny part is Bill Gates comes from money. His day was a rich, well connected business lawyer whose experience & connections gave Bill what he needed to succeed, and the 1 million dollar trust fund in 1970 didn't hurt either. I guess the illusion is all that counts.
..oh, I don't know, The Chinese. Jesus, I'm so sick of this damn 'American Exceptionalism' crap. Americans are not inherently better than the rest of the world. We just got lucky, that's all (2 week neighbors, easily conquered natives, etc). The world doesn't need us, except as a source of food, and the super-rich aren't going to let poor Americans eat when it's more profitable to sell the food to China.
How well you can do when you've got a lot of money. I'm pretty sure if I had pancreatic cancer I'd be dead right now.
I didn't think you could patent broad concepts. They haven't got any concrete work done. Heck, I haven't taken a biology class in 10 years and I can come up with this stuff.
and tablet computing too. A status bar, address bar, book mark bar, menu bar, search bar and wet bar all make sense on a 1600x1300 res screen. Less so at 800x600...
It's about consistency. FF on your computer should behave like FF on your phone and your tablet.
they're too expensive to house, and when they inevitably get murders in jail the family sues. We're not letting these ppl out to be kind, we're doing it because private run prisons want a nice, quiet non-violent drug offender that does his time and is a perfect little profit center.
And I'll add to it that McDonald's donesn't pay for training, you do. In the form of your tax dollars. McDonald's gets massive tax breaks for all that 'training', which in turn pay for it. Socialism for the right, capitalism for the poor.
...and now that expense is being put onto the worker. Whether or not you need one is irrelevant. It's like a car: Sure, you it's not mentioned in the job description, but good luck getting hired if you don't have one.
300 people are responsible for making 18 million CDs/month. I saw another story about a sleeping bag factory cranking out 20 million bags a year with 500 empoloyees for the whole company. I read somewhere that American manufacturing capacity is the highest it's ever been. What are we going to do with all these people. I keep hearing 'Well, the world needs ditch diggers too'. No, no it doesn not... I guess we can let them starve to death in the streets.
and here I was worried about peak oxygen!
makes sense. When I was a kid doing well in school meant you were a nerd & a loser. Other countries don't allow that to happen. But we've got to devalue education so we can slash funding you know.
I had a cheap Virgin Mobile, and if you looked at it funny it would crash.