If they are gouging customers, why would you even want to do them any favors?
While you certainly have a point. All I wanted to do was graduate with a good GPA. In order to do that, I was required to pass 2 AutoCAD courses. It was not up to me whether or not I used AutoCAD. That was already decided by the college. I was not about to let my grades suffer in order to get the message across that the school needed more workstations.
I fail to see a justification in stealing something becuase you feel the price is too high.
When I was in college the computer lab was small and over-crowded. Getting time on the AutoCAD workstations was very hard. At the time (the days of AutoCAD v10) the price for a license was around $10000 cdn.
How could I learn the software, which would motivate my future employer to buy the software (thus benifiting Autodesk), at that price? At the time there was no such thing as an academic version.
Lexmark do indeed make good printers. I've always had good luck with them (I've bought about 5 in the past 4 years).
My personal printer at home is a Lexmark Optra E310. I bought it in the US but live in Canada. After a few weeks of use the printer stopped working. I called Lexmark and explained the problem. The nice man at Lexmark told me it would need replacing. He shipped me a new printer with a return slip for the old one. I received my replacement the next day.
With service like that I'll continue to recommend Lexmark.
At my last place of employment I was on the Health and Safety board. Given all the legal details of worker's safety I'm not surprised about the meetings for your head bumping thermometer.
The worker safety laws are badly abused by some. Documenting as much as possible can help prevent this kind of fraud.
Working for the government did indeed suck, they certainly did have a lot of problems in need of fixing, but that's not unique to.gov.
Very true. While both have red tape, the corps are less likely to get bogged down in it. Corps are driven to make a profit and red tape costs money. Governments however do not consider the bottom line as much as they should. A nice happy medium between between the fanitic corps' persuit of profits and some governments total lack of business sense would be ideal.
It's possible that you could get a great sense of accomplishment from working in the public sector. However, here in Canada, government services are heavily unionized. I fear that most attempts at accomplishing anything could be burried under government and union red tape.
Now how certain patents (software, etc.) are approved is another story.
Also, the time frame during which one holds a patent needs consideration. Our technology is advancing at an accelerating rate yet, big companies want to hold patents longer.
We had photo radar here in Ontario, Canada for a while. No one liked it. The majority of speeders wanted their day in court, instead of paying a fine. The courts became so backed up with photo radar cases that the government had to stop using photo radar.
Playing devil's advocate, let's crunch some numbers. Say 10,000 American slashdotters give $100 a month to the EFF. That's $12,000,000 a year but, I doubt you'd get that much donation. Even if those are accurate figure, can they compair to what certain companies donate to political campaigns?
I would like the GUI to change so that I can effciently use the mouse OR keyboard but not both. Switching from mouse to keyboard and back again is time consuming. I don't have three hands, why do I have an interface that would work best with three hands?
While we're at it can get get of the $#(*&@#$ qwerty keyboards. How annoying is that? If RSI truely exists it because my hands have to be yogic fliers to find all the keys located in the silliest of places.
That's CRAKCERS not HACKERS
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Get it right. Crackers are the criminals. Hackers are law abiding citizens who are also computer experts.
...and a public that seems pretty satisfied with traditional analog TVs
How can the public be satisfied when they can't see the difference? Normal people cannot afford HDTVs. There are scant few HD broadcasts. Subscribing to digital TV offers a clearer picture but most people don't really notice.
Content, content, and more content. Offer some content in digital TV. Who needs another specialty channel? Offer people the shows they watch everyday in digital (widescreen and HD). Offer smaller, less expensive HDTVs. Only then can the public truely compare.
Why is dreamweaver not the answer? Mozilla does have a HTML editor although I haven't tried it. Search around the shareware sites. There are plenty to try.
You have a point. However, someone, other than a marketing department, has to determine the value of a new feature. Did we really need to add support for blinking text?
W3C sets HTML standards. What you're suggesting is to let Microsoft determine HTML standards? HTML standards are there so that many people using many platforms from PCs to cell phones can access web pages. Microsoft's goal, on the other hand, is to have every PC, PDA, cellphone, TV, and video game user a Microsoft customer. Does that not seem like a conflict of interest?
If that's not what you are suggesting then it sounds like you are just to lazy to create proper HTML pages, prefering instead to settle with tool that requires the least amount of knowledge. However, there are better WYSIWYG HTML editors out there. Try Dreamweaver.
I'm going to wander slightly off topic here but I feel what you are saying is wrong. Today, top company exectutives seem to be above the law. They can operate their companies however they choose. No one ever seems to hold them accountable. A company goes bankrupt, thousands loose their jobs and top executives are laughing all the way to the bank. In this example an executive acts in an irresponsible manner that could affect many of his customers, and you suggest mearly a wrist slap?
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While you certainly have a point. All I wanted to do was graduate with a good GPA. In order to do that, I was required to pass 2 AutoCAD courses. It was not up to me whether or not I used AutoCAD. That was already decided by the college. I was not about to let my grades suffer in order to get the message across that the school needed more workstations.
When I was in college the computer lab was small and over-crowded. Getting time on the AutoCAD workstations was very hard. At the time (the days of AutoCAD v10) the price for a license was around $10000 cdn.
How could I learn the software, which would motivate my future employer to buy the software (thus benifiting Autodesk), at that price? At the time there was no such thing as an academic version.
My personal printer at home is a Lexmark Optra E310. I bought it in the US but live in Canada. After a few weeks of use the printer stopped working. I called Lexmark and explained the problem. The nice man at Lexmark told me it would need replacing. He shipped me a new printer with a return slip for the old one. I received my replacement the next day.
With service like that I'll continue to recommend Lexmark.
The worker safety laws are badly abused by some. Documenting as much as possible can help prevent this kind of fraud.
Very true. While both have red tape, the corps are less likely to get bogged down in it. Corps are driven to make a profit and red tape costs money. Governments however do not consider the bottom line as much as they should. A nice happy medium between between the fanitic corps' persuit of profits and some governments total lack of business sense would be ideal.
Also, the time frame during which one holds a patent needs consideration. Our technology is advancing at an accelerating rate yet, big companies want to hold patents longer.
If joe user would wake up and learn to encrypt his email (GnuPG). Alas, I have ranted about that to many times. No one listens.
For those on a budget (or cheap) New Riders has released the book here
I hate ads to but, if this gives transit authorities more revenue to expand and enhance service, I'm all for it.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. In order to gain that privilege you must expect to give up some privacy in order to protect the public.
I hope my wife isn't reading this :)
We had photo radar here in Ontario, Canada for a while. No one liked it. The majority of speeders wanted their day in court, instead of paying a fine. The courts became so backed up with photo radar cases that the government had to stop using photo radar.
Playing devil's advocate, let's crunch some numbers. Say 10,000 American slashdotters give $100 a month to the EFF. That's $12,000,000 a year but, I doubt you'd get that much donation. Even if those are accurate figure, can they compair to what certain companies donate to political campaigns?
While we're at it can get get of the $#(*&@#$ qwerty keyboards. How annoying is that? If RSI truely exists it because my hands have to be yogic fliers to find all the keys located in the silliest of places.
Get it right. Crackers are the criminals. Hackers are law abiding citizens who are also computer experts.
If your make the page nice for the other 5% then you are potentially increasing your customer base by 5%.
So we should just give in and conform? I can't bring myself to do that. Wrong is wrong no matter how many people beleive it so.
How can the public be satisfied when they can't see the difference? Normal people cannot afford HDTVs. There are scant few HD broadcasts. Subscribing to digital TV offers a clearer picture but most people don't really notice.
Content, content, and more content. Offer some content in digital TV. Who needs another specialty channel? Offer people the shows they watch everyday in digital (widescreen and HD). Offer smaller, less expensive HDTVs. Only then can the public truely compare.
Why is dreamweaver not the answer? Mozilla does have a HTML editor although I haven't tried it. Search around the shareware sites. There are plenty to try.
You have a point. However, someone, other than a marketing department, has to determine the value of a new feature. Did we really need to add support for blinking text?
W3C sets HTML standards. What you're suggesting is to let Microsoft determine HTML standards? HTML standards are there so that many people using many platforms from PCs to cell phones can access web pages. Microsoft's goal, on the other hand, is to have every PC, PDA, cellphone, TV, and video game user a Microsoft customer. Does that not seem like a conflict of interest?
If that's not what you are suggesting then it sounds like you are just to lazy to create proper HTML pages, prefering instead to settle with tool that requires the least amount of knowledge. However, there are better WYSIWYG HTML editors out there. Try Dreamweaver.
I'd be very surprise if this was NOT due to Frontpage creating non compliant code.
I'm going to wander slightly off topic here but I feel what you are saying is wrong. Today, top company exectutives seem to be above the law. They can operate their companies however they choose. No one ever seems to hold them accountable. A company goes bankrupt, thousands loose their jobs and top executives are laughing all the way to the bank. In this example an executive acts in an irresponsible manner that could affect many of his customers, and you suggest mearly a wrist slap?
Or a hampster and a its wheel.