Now you know you don't want to work for a large organization - many of them are as screwed up as you have found.
Remember, there is no consipiracy of pointy-haired-bosses doing this, things just kind of get that way when lots of people are involved.
Try working for smaller companies. It might be frightening to hear about cash-flow issues (in the next room over), but in the end, you are no worse off than working for a mega-corp, with the illusion of stability. Mega-corps do mega-layoffs.
Small companies go out of business, but at least you will have tried.
Smaller companies allow/force you to keep up-to-date. If you stick with a fortune 500 company too long, pretty soon you won't know anything useful outside of that company.
I don't think "$300 / seat for something proprietary" really matters that much. Even if they re-bought that license every single year, it is less than $1/day to match whatever they are paying the butt that sits in the seat. I have to imagine that even peons are getting more than $100/day.
More likely, they just found that Linux did what they needed, and the non-cost, per seat, was a bonus.
It's the "big idea" that google is, that makes it a multi-billion dollar enterprise... not the fact that they may or may not have pinched a few pennies here and there.
From Tesco's own investor site [http://www.tescocorporate.com/ the gross sales was 37,070 million GBP [about $65.8 B USD].
The British GDP is about 1 Trillion [1.7 T USD]
That seems a far cry from 1 out of every 3 GBP. Unless you mean, maybe, actual currency passing thru the stores, at some point.
I'm doing my part to solve the fossil fuel problem
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I am using as much as I damn well please, to help get us to the point where it is gone, and we can get on to the next thing. Just to stop the whining about how we are running out!
Just for yucks - I went to both pages, in different window and typed in the same search phrase, at random; "floating cars".
Google instantly came up with (oddly) relevant seeming hits.
Microsoft came up with all kinds of stuff - only one had to do with "floating cars" (whatever that means) and most just having to do with "floating"...
So, as usual, next time I have a search (even if it is for random odd words), I will use Google...
Man - Microsoft can't win. What if they called their new OS "Microsoft Wall" - More solid than Windows.
You'd still see press saying John Wall was not amused...
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You don't need backups if you don't do anything important. I should know. I am an official member of RAID - Redundant Army of Independent Derelicts. Of course, before PC (political correctness), back in my day, we just called ourselves HOBOS. (Huge Obnoxious BO Smellers).
One day, I was wetting myself and talking to God, and he said, "Jed, get away from there, you don't need no RAID. Black gold, Texas tea.", Next thing you know, I'm a Lotto (TM) millionaire. So, I went to California and started a dot-com company.
That didn't work out, but I don't miss it. Nothing has changed for me.
To RAID or not to RAID, that is the question, I ask myself every time that wiener dog goes by...
[Can you beleive they give 5 whole mod points to people who use public access terminals!]
waste: To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly [dictionary.com]
So, if someone spends $24M and 10 years developing a stupid product, is that thoughtlessly or carelessly?
If someone labors to earn some money to spend on said product, then consumes it, would they have done that without feeling they got some value?
The problem is WHO gets to define what is "wrong".
For example; I could completely dislike your taste in music, therefore every compact disc you own is a wasteful piece of plastic that will end up in a holy landfill somewhere, by my definition.
Finally, I do buy food that I throw out all the time. I would be a big fat pig if I ate every french fry I ever bought. Is it wasteful? I dunno, everyone who grew the potatoes, transported them, turned them into french fries, cooked them and sold them to me thought they were making a reasonable profit on them. I thought it was a good value for my money - in fact I got TOO MANY with my "#4 lunch special". I ate what I wanted and tossed the rest. Then the garbage man gets paid to haul it away. Whee!
If we lived in a society that regulated each step of that process... everyone would be worse off.
Same argument here. I don't do drugs, but my life is somewhat diminished by having them be illegal.
I am of the opinion it would be far cheaper as a society to treat drug abusers, than it is to spend billions every year on jailing them, and indirectly encouraging all of the associated criminal activity and violence that goes with supplying the users.
Personally, I think this is a retarded idea too, but I sure am glad that I live in a consumer society.
By definition, if this "wasteful product" finds a market, it is not wasteful to the society that produces it. It becomes part of the economy. Every supplier in the supply chain, the manufacturer, delivery, marketing, and retailer all make their bit on it. And nobody is forcing the consumer to buy it.
Just because I personally find no use for, say, dry cleaners, nail salons, or professional sports, so what? I just don't buy any of that stuff.
The alternative to allowing any fool thing to be sold, historically doesn't pan out too well.
Yes - when you win a prize (unless otherwise enhanced with cash to pay the taxes) really works out to the equivalent of the right to buy whatever you won, at your tax rate.
If you are a poor slob who pays (almost) no taxes, the prize is more valuable than it is to a high wage earner. For example, if a well-off California citizen won the prize, they would have to pay about $4300 in taxes, assuming a 33% federal rate, and 9% for California.
Your milage may vary - I've heard some places (Canada?) don't tax "prizes".
Ok, off the top of my head, I think I have 9 computers in the house. 5 run "Windows", 3 run "Linux" and 1 swings both ways. None do MacOs, or anything else, for that matter.
The Windows computers do what most folks want - email, the web, fiddle with some pictures and print them. Sheesh, a computer is just another appliance for most people, not a way of life.
My refrigerator is "boring" too - but it keeps my ice cream cold.
Am I missing something? God, I hope not, because I sit in front of this stupid computer more hours than I care to think. If there were some compelling reason to sit here more... shudder
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Now you know you don't want to work for a large organization - many of them are as screwed up as you have found.
Remember, there is no consipiracy of pointy-haired-bosses doing this, things just kind of get that way when lots of people are involved.
Try working for smaller companies. It might be frightening to hear about cash-flow issues (in the next room over), but in the end, you are no worse off than working for a mega-corp, with the illusion of stability. Mega-corps do mega-layoffs.
Small companies go out of business, but at least you will have tried.
Smaller companies allow/force you to keep up-to-date. If you stick with a fortune 500 company too long, pretty soon you won't know anything useful outside of that company.
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
It's gonna be a bitch to put a EULA on each toothpick.
I don't think "$300 / seat for something proprietary" really matters that much. Even if they re-bought that license every single year, it is less than $1/day to match whatever they are paying the butt that sits in the seat. I have to imagine that even peons are getting more than $100/day.
More likely, they just found that Linux did what they needed, and the non-cost, per seat, was a bonus.
It's the "big idea" that google is, that makes it a multi-billion dollar enterprise... not the fact that they may or may not have pinched a few pennies here and there.
... but I'd hate to pay for the first one!
If I go to www.google.cn, I get redirected to http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/
anyhow, a search on "len" gives me "7,980,000len1-10 0.02 " a lot of hits...
www.lensite.com is the number one entry in both .com and .cn hits...
Maybe the editors need to check on something, or we all ought to count 11.3 billion as the "new 42".
Results:
Google: "1-10 of about 3,120,000,000 .06 sec"
.08 sec"
Yahoo: "1-10 of about 11,300,000,000
Top yahoo hit - some punk band. Top Google hit, apple .com.
Gee, who do you think will make more money with those results... ;-)
clearly the administration is in the thrall of Big Time!
What's your point?
If they are some sort of audio-visual event are they not professionally recorded?
If it is just some talking head, wouldn't a few stills and a transcript be better?
I know, it wasn't the question, but who really wants to watch a 4 hour video of most "events"?
I'd hate to have to sit thru your home movie collection.
The British GDP is about 1 Trillion [1.7 T USD]
That seems a far cry from 1 out of every 3 GBP. Unless you mean, maybe, actual currency passing thru the stores, at some point.
I am using as much as I damn well please, to help get us to the point where it is gone, and we can get on to the next thing. Just to stop the whining about how we are running out!
On second thought, would a fee be involved? Would that make someone a pimp?
Google instantly came up with (oddly) relevant seeming hits.
Microsoft came up with all kinds of stuff - only one had to do with "floating cars" (whatever that means) and most just having to do with "floating"...
So, as usual, next time I have a search (even if it is for random odd words), I will use Google...
You'd still see press saying John Wall was not amused...
You don't need backups if you don't do anything important. I should know. I am an official member of RAID - Redundant Army of Independent Derelicts. Of course, before PC (political correctness), back in my day, we just called ourselves HOBOS. (Huge Obnoxious BO Smellers). One day, I was wetting myself and talking to God, and he said, "Jed, get away from there, you don't need no RAID. Black gold, Texas tea.", Next thing you know, I'm a Lotto (TM) millionaire. So, I went to California and started a dot-com company. That didn't work out, but I don't miss it. Nothing has changed for me. To RAID or not to RAID, that is the question, I ask myself every time that wiener dog goes by... [Can you beleive they give 5 whole mod points to people who use public access terminals!]
So, if someone spends $24M and 10 years developing a stupid product, is that thoughtlessly or carelessly?
If someone labors to earn some money to spend on said product, then consumes it, would they have done that without feeling they got some value?
The problem is WHO gets to define what is "wrong".
For example; I could completely dislike your taste in music, therefore every compact disc you own is a wasteful piece of plastic that will end up in a holy landfill somewhere, by my definition.
Finally, I do buy food that I throw out all the time. I would be a big fat pig if I ate every french fry I ever bought. Is it wasteful? I dunno, everyone who grew the potatoes, transported them, turned them into french fries, cooked them and sold them to me thought they were making a reasonable profit on them. I thought it was a good value for my money - in fact I got TOO MANY with my "#4 lunch special". I ate what I wanted and tossed the rest. Then the garbage man gets paid to haul it away. Whee!
If we lived in a society that regulated each step of that process... everyone would be worse off.
I am of the opinion it would be far cheaper as a society to treat drug abusers, than it is to spend billions every year on jailing them, and indirectly encouraging all of the associated criminal activity and violence that goes with supplying the users.
By definition, if this "wasteful product" finds a market, it is not wasteful to the society that produces it. It becomes part of the economy. Every supplier in the supply chain, the manufacturer, delivery, marketing, and retailer all make their bit on it. And nobody is forcing the consumer to buy it.
Just because I personally find no use for, say, dry cleaners, nail salons, or professional sports, so what? I just don't buy any of that stuff.
The alternative to allowing any fool thing to be sold, historically doesn't pan out too well.
Hell, I drink a lot of beer, but have you seen the guys who have to go in sewers? Now that's round!
There is no jedi, there is no spoon, er lightsaber, wait... Can I have a do-over?
If you are a poor slob who pays (almost) no taxes, the prize is more valuable than it is to a high wage earner. For example, if a well-off California citizen won the prize, they would have to pay about $4300 in taxes, assuming a 33% federal rate, and 9% for California.
Your milage may vary - I've heard some places (Canada?) don't tax "prizes".
The REAL reason they popped that comet, was to improve the Feng-shui of the local celestial neighborhood.
The Windows computers do what most folks want - email, the web, fiddle with some pictures and print them. Sheesh, a computer is just another appliance for most people, not a way of life.
My refrigerator is "boring" too - but it keeps my ice cream cold.
Am I missing something? God, I hope not, because I sit in front of this stupid computer more hours than I care to think. If there were some compelling reason to sit here more... shudder