There are a number of "gold" or "platinum" Microsoft partners providing integration with business systems who will not support anything but MS products as they fear reprimend from MS should they support a product from "the enemy."
Chicken, meet egg.
Installed base means everything in business.
Integration with Office is a very good way to make money.
Like most people (here at least!) I'm not happy about the way the big media companies are rail-roading governments around the world to shore up their failing businesses
The geek wants his free movie fix.
The politician wants to see $200 million dollar productions with significant potential for a return in both domestic and foreign markets. These translate instantly into jobs and taxable income. Numbers he can take to the voters.
He wants to be remembered as the man who landed Pixar for his home district. The one who made Toronto or Vancouver Hollywood North.
There is also the nationalist impulse to keep his native culture from being overwealmed by cheap foreign imports.
Arn't they run by judges who are also lawyers? It would be neat if normal people AKA jurists were in charge but I don't think that is/ever will be the case.
When the geek faces the "normal people," the judge and jury in an American court, how often does he come out a winner?
The MS Office "Ultimate Steal" for a full or part time student with an.edu e-mail address is $60. Win 7 Pro $30. the ultimate steal
Since Word 97 or theabouts Microsoft has offered a Home office bundle for around $100-$150 list. Currently with a three-seat license. That's the price of a serviceable multifunction printer or four ink jet cartridges.
MS Office skills are marketable at any age.
The senior volunteer, the disabled, the kid just out of school knows this. It beats flipping burgers, pays better than Wal-Mart, and there is always someone who needs you.
Well, the stock never returned to its 2000/2001 peaks, and the company's reputation never recovered from the bashing it took during the big anti-trust case
The geek lives within his own little world.
But there are others:
Companies in the financial sector tumbled to the bottom of the Boston College-Reputation Institute 2009 CSR Index while top consumer brands perceived to be strong in the area of ethics, citizenship and workplace practices dominate the top 50, with Disney and Microsoft at the top.
Released today by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and Reputation Institute, the index, based on a survey of consumers in the United States, shows the following companies in the top 10 positions:
1. Walt Disney Company 2. Microsoft 3. Google 4. Honda 5. Johnson & Johnson 6. PepsiCo. 7. General Mills 8. Kraft Foods 9. Campbell Soup Company 10. FedEx
The decision flew in the face of the takings clause of the 5th amendment.
All the amendment really has to say is this;
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
Public use [or purpose, if you like] is not defined or limited in the Constitution itself.
There is no obvious barrier to the use of eminent domain to clear title to land that is needed for a development of a bridge, a tunnel, or a town - useful public works that may be privately owned or managed.
the judge should have forced Microsoft to release the source code of XP under the BSD license and thereby restore true competition to the operating system market.
The most likely result securely anchoring Windows as the OS of choice for the masses.
by the time it was 9/12, every person who died there, was replaced. no matter how much you tell yourself that 'thousands' of dead is important, it simply isn't.
The 2500 who died at the WTC weren't infants or elders. They were firemen.
They were men and women in their most productive years. In the rarefied business of investment banking and world trade.
Death is universal. But Death is also particular.
Hit hard enough, your city, your world, can be wounded beyond all hope of recovery.
The watchers shouldn't be able to find the camera locations, so this stuff about "jumping into their truck with a gun" isn't even possible.
I read these posts wondering if the geek has the least idea of what the Mexican border looks like. Its length. Its terrain. If the cameras are set properly there will be no point of reference.
there have been no successful hijackings since Entebbe. That's 30 years of proven technology
The suicide bomber isn't a hijacker.
He doesn't need access to the flight deck, although that simplifies the problem.
Once the aircraft are secure, however, what's to keep the "terrorists" from attacking the aircraft on approach or takeoff? The USA allows pretty free trade in.50 Cal. Sniper Rifles and the.338 is damn near as effective.
The sniper's target is a man not a machine - you've punched a hole in the airframe. What happens next? Probably nothing.
perhaps some of those tens of thousands of Stinger missiles will come back home from Afghanistan?
If you have a decades old Stinger, how do you maintain it?.
In order to fire the missile, a BCU (Battery Coolant Unit) must be inserted into the handguard. This shoots a stream of argon gas into the system, as well as a chemical energy charge that enables the acquisition indicators and missile to get power. The batteries are somewhat sensitive to abuse, and only hold so much gas in them. Over time, and without proper maintenance, they are known to become unserviceableFIM-92 Stinger
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There are a number of "gold" or "platinum" Microsoft partners providing integration with business systems who will not support anything but MS products as they fear reprimend from MS should they support a product from "the enemy."
Chicken, meet egg.
Installed base means everything in business.
Integration with Office is a very good way to make money.
You didn't find a menu item and you moved on probably without even consulting documentation or Googling
Telling the user to Google for a solution is an open admission of failure.
The answer should always be easily accessible from within the program itself.
Like most people (here at least!) I'm not happy about the way the big media companies are rail-roading governments around the world to shore up their failing businesses
The geek wants his free movie fix.
The politician wants to see $200 million dollar productions with significant potential for a return in both domestic and foreign markets. These translate instantly into jobs and taxable income. Numbers he can take to the voters.
He wants to be remembered as the man who landed Pixar for his home district. The one who made Toronto or Vancouver Hollywood North.
There is also the nationalist impulse to keep his native culture from being overwealmed by cheap foreign imports.
Arn't they run by judges who are also lawyers? It would be neat if normal people AKA jurists were in charge but I don't think that is/ever will be the case.
When the geek faces the "normal people," the judge and jury in an American court, how often does he come out a winner?
99% of people couldn't care less for the advanced features in anything.
"Basic" and "Advanced" are defined by the user.
The geek isn't known for being particularly adept at understanding the user's needs, skills and values.
He is good at pulling stats out of thin air.
The larger and more complex your organization or your task, the more likely the advanced feature will be needed.
Microsoft's strength is that it puts a lot of time and money into the study of clerical work - productivity in the office.
That is why it can gamble on the Ribbon and win.
What exactly are MS Office skills?
Your first full-time job after a year on unemployment and welfare:
Newport Training Facility Helps Unemployed Find Work
The baseline clerical skills needed for advancement in any trade or profession you could name:
Administrative Assistant : Hyderabad India
no complaint was ever launched (and never will be), and glorious Google still continues to return accurate and unbiased results
Never say never.
Money, politics, law and religion make a volitile mix in any culture. You cannot predict the outcome.
Apple Censors Dalai Lama IPhone Apps in China [Dec 29]
Google's China Blues [Dec 21]
Since Open Office is there, why would anyone go for this?
The legit copy of MS Office for home use is free to many who use MS Office at work. Microsoft Software Assurance Home Use Program
The MS Office "Ultimate Steal" for a full or part time student with an .edu e-mail address is $60. Win 7 Pro $30. the ultimate steal
Since Word 97 or theabouts Microsoft has offered a Home office bundle for around $100-$150 list. Currently with a three-seat license. That's the price of a serviceable multifunction printer or four ink jet cartridges.
MS Office skills are marketable at any age.
The senior volunteer, the disabled, the kid just out of school knows this. It beats flipping burgers, pays better than Wal-Mart, and there is always someone who needs you.
It's only been out since October 22nd, 2009.
Net Applications and w3Schools have been tracking Win 7 since January.
If there were any show-stoppers for Win 7, it seems reasonable to assume they would have been exposed by now.
In round numbers:
Net Applications:
Win 7 Jan 0% Nov 4%
In daily tracking 5%
Linux 1% Through Jan-Nov 09.
W3Schools:
Win 7 Jan 0% Nov 7%
Linux 4% Unchanged since January 2008.
Top Operating System Share Trend, Windows 7 Breaks 5% in Daily Tracking
OS Platform Statistics
I thought flash not working is a feature.
To the geek.
To everyone else it is a show-stopper.
This rule applies to any program, add-on, plug-in, or extension that is considered an essntial download by almost every OSX and Windows user.
Well, the stock never returned to its 2000/2001 peaks, and the company's reputation never recovered from the bashing it took during the big anti-trust case
The geek lives within his own little world.
But there are others:
Companies in the financial sector tumbled to the bottom of the Boston College-Reputation Institute 2009 CSR Index while top consumer brands perceived to be strong in the area of ethics, citizenship and workplace practices dominate the top 50, with Disney and Microsoft at the top.
Released today by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and Reputation Institute, the index, based on a survey of consumers in the United States, shows the following companies in the top 10 positions:
1. Walt Disney Company
2. Microsoft
3. Google
4. Honda
5. Johnson & Johnson
6. PepsiCo.
7. General Mills
8. Kraft Foods
9. Campbell Soup Company
10. FedEx
Disney and Microsoft top CSR Index
Microsoft tends to do very well in surveys like these - and the margin between first and tenth can be paper thin. The Reputation of the Most Visible Companies
Is this the right place to point out that the first decade of this century and millennium has one more year to go?
The only thing that matters to a kid on his first big cross-country trip is watching the odometer roll over from 9999 to 10000.
There is a awe and magic in this sort of thing that no logical argument is ever going to change.
I have known hundreds of such people in my lifetime.
If you've known "hundreds" who have been living underground, then they can't have been buried very deep.
It has never been easy for a fugitive to break all contact with the world he left behind. These stories tend o have much the same ending:
The manhunt for Daniel Hicks stretched to California after the 30-year-old fugitive made a collect call to his father from San Jose on Wednesday Seattle double-murder suspect arrested in Santa Cruz
Fugitive's Girlfriend Sentenced For Aiding & Abetting
All the amendment really has to say is this;
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
Public use [or purpose, if you like] is not defined or limited in the Constitution itself.
There is no obvious barrier to the use of eminent domain to clear title to land that is needed for a development of a bridge, a tunnel, or a town -
useful public works that may be privately owned or managed.
I mean, we could something that connect the high traffic areas in the East Coast and California.,
The driving distance betwen New York and San Francisco is about 2900 miles.
Call it a minimum of 12 hours by rail at 245 mph.
The "high traffic" routes in the U.S. run North-South. Atlantic Coast. Central. [Chicago - New Orleans] Pacific Coast.
The profitable East-West high speed continental rail route that makes economic and geographical sense is not easy to map.
But perhaps the measures are too strong in today's "Linux curious" environment.
It took one month in release for Win 7 to take a 5% share of the global desktop.
Five times that of Linux.
Windows 7 Breaks 5% in Daily Tracking - Mac Share Drops .15% in November
the judge should have forced Microsoft to release the source code of XP under the BSD license and thereby restore true competition to the operating system market.
The most likely result securely anchoring Windows as the OS of choice for the masses.
Terrorists are just spoiled children.
The spoiled child is indulged and protected by his elders. He does not have to answer to those he injures - and so those injuries do not end.
The star quarterback rapes a girl knowing the alumni will pass the hat around to make sure that the case never goes to trial.
It will not have been the first time.
It ends only when the judge says "Twenty-Five Years To Life."
Their acts and our responses are all attention.
We are not the terrorist's only audience. We may not even be his most important audience.
Pity--
Some small grasp of how world trade and finance affects the geek's own future prospects can be useful.
If you lost your Duke CD, and you don't know how to use Goggle
Marketing 101:
Put everything your customer needs on your own damn page.
So why is the Government attacking its own citizens?
It's not.
The geek chooses his words carelessly.
It is not an attack to be asked to put away your laptop one hour before landing.
It is an inconvenience.
It is not an attack to ask that everyone remain seated when the aircraft is most vulnerable.
If you can't hold it in for one hour, the word is incontinence, and it is something you need to discuss with your doctors.
Your friends, your family, your boss, already know.
The first lesson of flying is that high is safe and higher safer still.
Height=Time To Recover.
by the time it was 9/12, every person who died there, was replaced.
no matter how much you tell yourself that 'thousands' of dead is important, it simply isn't.
The 2500 who died at the WTC weren't infants or elders. They were firemen.
They were men and women in their most productive years. In the rarefied business of investment banking and world trade.
Death is universal. But Death is also particular.
Hit hard enough, your city, your world, can be wounded beyond all hope of recovery.
9/11 could have been at most a minor annoyance
The collapse of twin 110 story mega structures in Manhattan cannot be classed as a minor annoyance.
The hijackers struck the Pentagon. They made a serious attempt to reach the Capitol Building or the White House.
The geek needs to keep a little better grip on realty. When Yamamoto struck at Pearl Harbor, he knew exactly what the response would be.
The watchers shouldn't be able to find the camera locations, so this stuff about "jumping into their truck with a gun" isn't even possible.
I read these posts wondering if the geek has the least idea of what the Mexican border looks like. Its length. Its terrain. If the cameras are set properly there will be no point of reference.
there have been no successful hijackings since Entebbe. That's 30 years of proven technology
The suicide bomber isn't a hijacker.
He doesn't need access to the flight deck, although that simplifies the problem.
Once the aircraft are secure, however, what's to keep the "terrorists" from attacking the aircraft on approach or takeoff? The USA allows pretty free trade in .50 Cal. Sniper Rifles and the .338 is damn near as effective.
The sniper's target is a man not a machine - you've punched a hole in the airframe. What happens next? Probably nothing.
perhaps some of those tens of thousands of Stinger missiles will come back home from Afghanistan?
If you have a decades old Stinger, how do you maintain it?.
In order to fire the missile, a BCU (Battery Coolant Unit) must be inserted into the handguard. This shoots a stream of argon gas into the system, as well as a chemical energy charge that enables the acquisition indicators and missile to get power. The batteries are somewhat sensitive to abuse, and only hold so much gas in them. Over time, and without proper maintenance, they are known to become unserviceable FIM-92 Stinger