Now you're just talking out of your ass. Anyone that's anyone that used Office 2007 knows they can press the Alt button and get all of their old menu's back.
I think you're thinking of IE7. Office 2007 does not have a 'classic' menu mode.
The main reason that a small percentage of the population shouldn't own a large percentage of the wealth is that such a situation tends to lead to civil unrest. Basically, in such situations the uspet and restless poor can take action either through a revolution (often Marxist--see Namibia or Nicaragua or Cuba) or a democratic process (election of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela). For examples of countries with very even income distribution, see pretty much any part of Scandinavia--safe, highly educated, politically stable. Effectively, the more people that have satisfactory living conditions (however that's defined in that place and that time), the happier and more invested in their society they feel and the less likely they are to become angry and restless.
Actually, I believe advertising directly to patients only became legal in 1997. Also, as another example the advertising of cigarettes is already heavily restricted.
The only reason the health insurance situation in the US even continues to function somewhat is because employers negotiate the premium, deductible and benefits of a policy for large groups of employees thereby spreading risk. If we're all forced to buy individual policies, insurance companies will just cherry pick the healthiest people like they already do, then either deny coverage or charge exorbitant premiums to those who are too risky (e.g., those who have chronic illness). If you've tried to buy your own health insurance and have any sort of medical condition, you've probably already seen how that works. The only way something like this would work is if laws were changed such that the government had power to regulate rates. For example, maybe a law requiring everybody to have insurance combined with a law to prohibit health insurers from determine premiums based on the client's health need to be passed first.
Perhaps not all innovators, but for drug research there are sometimes hundreds of people involved for several years requiring salaries, facilities, equipment and other support. Doing something great for society unfortunately doesn't pay the bills for most people.
Some have said it's like being in academia (surrounded by important researchers, ability to work on what you want) with better pay, no need to beg for money (i.e., write grants) and no need to teach. For many freshly minted PhD's that pretty much makes it a dream job.
Microsoft has a free download that will allow certain older versions of Office to read and write the new formats. Moreover, there's some sort of automatic downloading and installing of it when you try to open an Office 2007 document in an earlier version the first time.
The new format is the default, but there's of course a setting where you can change the default to the old 97-2003 format.
Yet again M$ is releasing another upgrade with incompatible file formats to earlier versions of office tools with the expectations that millions of users will be forced to pay yet another M$ tax to exchange documents with fellow business associates.
Except that this isn't the case. Microsoft is providing a free add-in for older versions that will allow them to read and write the new XML formats. Office 2003 (maybe others?) is smart enough to recognize the new formats and phone home to Microsoft to download the relevant add-in.
You're right. The issue isn't that the source repository can't integrate all the changes quickly, it's that doing so is impractical. Like the article said, if each developer broke the build every 2 years (or more often) there would NEVER be a successful build of the entire product if there was just one master repository.
The names of the schools are (in the same order you've listed them before) Gymnasium, Realschule and Hauptschule. Even the lower levels of school are not necessarily worthless though. For example, kids attending Hauptschule tend to spend a lot of the later years of their schooling doing practical training and internships. In fact, I'd say the German system does a better job training skilled laborers like plumbers and mechanics.
It's also possible to transfer to a university even if you went to Realschule after you prove yourself in a Fachhochschule (like a university but more practically oriented).
General Master's degrees are effectively an extension of undergraduate education. The main idea is to provide some additional depth in key areas and fill any remaining gaps from the student's undergraduate education.
Academia is no paradise of freedom either. What you can work on is heavily restricted by funding and to a lesser extent other forms of faculty and institutional support (i.e., the politics of what fields are 'hot'). Moreover, if things go wrong somehow, it's not like a job where you can quit and find something better after a few weeks. Still, I'd say attending graduate school is a worthwhile experience.
Moving from the States to almost any other developed foreign country is practically a non-option for a few reasons:
1. Permission to practice medicine is specific to a given country. In some places it's easier than in others, but in general education in one country is not recognized as equivalent to education in another. Sometimes you can make up these deficits with exams or further coursework, but other times it's just not practical.
2. Wages for doctors are often quite a bit lower. In many countries, the cost of a medical education is paid for in large part by the government. Because of this, doctors there don't have as astronomically high student loans as most new doctors do in the States, which means doctors are willing to work for lower wages. Combine that with the socialized or heavily regulated aspects of most European healthcare systems and you've got low wages.
If only it was as easy as "grabbing" a maroon passport...
I lived in Germany for two years (and no I wasn't in the US military). I enjoyed my time there, but one thing I realized is that culturally I would never be German. No matter how long I lived there, I'd always feel at least somewhat like an outsider. I think now it's something like 7 years of permanent residency to become a citizen but it used to be something like 20+. Moreover, many of us don't have the luxury of "finding a girlfriend". Even with broad domestic partnership laws, immigration policy isn't always the same as with married people.
It's my understanding that Costa Rica has started to crack down somewhat on its lax immigration policies towards expats from places like the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. I was in Nicaragua in January and there seemed to be a lot of expats moving there from Costa Rica. Unfortunately, every expat I've ever met in Central America seemed to be a pedophile, somebody with a substance abuse problem or somebody with little money that wanted be treated rich in a poor country.
The city of Seattle gets about 90% of its power from hydro and wind with rates of about 6.6c/kwh. See here. It's not just small towns that are getting the vast majority of their power from these kinds of sources.
In general, they way it worked was that the tracts of land that were the least desirable (poorest soil, no resources, no access to valuable commercial waterways, etc.) were turned into reservations and then the tribes were moved there. Typically the best land was taken by settlers by force and those already living there were herded up on to the land nobody else really wanted.
By Mayberry, do you mean Mount Airy? It seemed pretty blighted when I drove through there last year on my way from the Research Triangle to West Virginia.
There actually are a lot of add-ins providing custom Office solutions out there, but the real deal breaker for most corporate customers remains the feature set. OpenOffice.org just lacks many of the more advanced features (and in some cases basic features) found in MS Office that certain business rely on. This is particularly true for spreadsheet software, with Excel still miles ahead of Calc in areas like available formulas, pivot tables and even performance.
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I think you're thinking of IE7. Office 2007 does not have a 'classic' menu mode.
The main reason that a small percentage of the population shouldn't own a large percentage of the wealth is that such a situation tends to lead to civil unrest. Basically, in such situations the uspet and restless poor can take action either through a revolution (often Marxist--see Namibia or Nicaragua or Cuba) or a democratic process (election of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela). For examples of countries with very even income distribution, see pretty much any part of Scandinavia--safe, highly educated, politically stable. Effectively, the more people that have satisfactory living conditions (however that's defined in that place and that time), the happier and more invested in their society they feel and the less likely they are to become angry and restless.
Actually, I believe advertising directly to patients only became legal in 1997. Also, as another example the advertising of cigarettes is already heavily restricted.
The only reason the health insurance situation in the US even continues to function somewhat is because employers negotiate the premium, deductible and benefits of a policy for large groups of employees thereby spreading risk. If we're all forced to buy individual policies, insurance companies will just cherry pick the healthiest people like they already do, then either deny coverage or charge exorbitant premiums to those who are too risky (e.g., those who have chronic illness). If you've tried to buy your own health insurance and have any sort of medical condition, you've probably already seen how that works. The only way something like this would work is if laws were changed such that the government had power to regulate rates. For example, maybe a law requiring everybody to have insurance combined with a law to prohibit health insurers from determine premiums based on the client's health need to be passed first.
Perhaps not all innovators, but for drug research there are sometimes hundreds of people involved for several years requiring salaries, facilities, equipment and other support. Doing something great for society unfortunately doesn't pay the bills for most people.
Some have said it's like being in academia (surrounded by important researchers, ability to work on what you want) with better pay, no need to beg for money (i.e., write grants) and no need to teach. For many freshly minted PhD's that pretty much makes it a dream job.
So by "ownership society", do you mean that only the suckers who actually have to work for a living should pay taxes?
How is it touble taxation if you're only paying capital gains on the *gains* from your investments?
Microsoft has a free download that will allow certain older versions of Office to read and write the new formats. Moreover, there's some sort of automatic downloading and installing of it when you try to open an Office 2007 document in an earlier version the first time.
The new format is the default, but there's of course a setting where you can change the default to the old 97-2003 format.
Basically, the new formats (docx, xlsx, pptx) are a zip archive containing a bunch of XML files. The old format dates back to Office 97.
Except that this isn't the case. Microsoft is providing a free add-in for older versions that will allow them to read and write the new XML formats. Office 2003 (maybe others?) is smart enough to recognize the new formats and phone home to Microsoft to download the relevant add-in.
You're right. The issue isn't that the source repository can't integrate all the changes quickly, it's that doing so is impractical. Like the article said, if each developer broke the build every 2 years (or more often) there would NEVER be a successful build of the entire product if there was just one master repository.
Just out of curiosity... if it's so bad, why don't you just quit?
The names of the schools are (in the same order you've listed them before) Gymnasium, Realschule and Hauptschule. Even the lower levels of school are not necessarily worthless though. For example, kids attending Hauptschule tend to spend a lot of the later years of their schooling doing practical training and internships. In fact, I'd say the German system does a better job training skilled laborers like plumbers and mechanics.
It's also possible to transfer to a university even if you went to Realschule after you prove yourself in a Fachhochschule (like a university but more practically oriented).
Just because it wasn't a US state at the time doesn't mean it wasn't US soil (i.e., a territory of the US).
General Master's degrees are effectively an extension of undergraduate education. The main idea is to provide some additional depth in key areas and fill any remaining gaps from the student's undergraduate education.
Academia is no paradise of freedom either. What you can work on is heavily restricted by funding and to a lesser extent other forms of faculty and institutional support (i.e., the politics of what fields are 'hot'). Moreover, if things go wrong somehow, it's not like a job where you can quit and find something better after a few weeks. Still, I'd say attending graduate school is a worthwhile experience.
Moving from the States to almost any other developed foreign country is practically a non-option for a few reasons:
1. Permission to practice medicine is specific to a given country. In some places it's easier than in others, but in general education in one country is not recognized as equivalent to education in another. Sometimes you can make up these deficits with exams or further coursework, but other times it's just not practical.
2. Wages for doctors are often quite a bit lower. In many countries, the cost of a medical education is paid for in large part by the government. Because of this, doctors there don't have as astronomically high student loans as most new doctors do in the States, which means doctors are willing to work for lower wages. Combine that with the socialized or heavily regulated aspects of most European healthcare systems and you've got low wages.
If only it was as easy as "grabbing" a maroon passport... I lived in Germany for two years (and no I wasn't in the US military). I enjoyed my time there, but one thing I realized is that culturally I would never be German. No matter how long I lived there, I'd always feel at least somewhat like an outsider. I think now it's something like 7 years of permanent residency to become a citizen but it used to be something like 20+. Moreover, many of us don't have the luxury of "finding a girlfriend". Even with broad domestic partnership laws, immigration policy isn't always the same as with married people.
It's my understanding that Costa Rica has started to crack down somewhat on its lax immigration policies towards expats from places like the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. I was in Nicaragua in January and there seemed to be a lot of expats moving there from Costa Rica. Unfortunately, every expat I've ever met in Central America seemed to be a pedophile, somebody with a substance abuse problem or somebody with little money that wanted be treated rich in a poor country.
The city of Seattle gets about 90% of its power from hydro and wind with rates of about 6.6c/kwh. See here. It's not just small towns that are getting the vast majority of their power from these kinds of sources.
In general, they way it worked was that the tracts of land that were the least desirable (poorest soil, no resources, no access to valuable commercial waterways, etc.) were turned into reservations and then the tribes were moved there. Typically the best land was taken by settlers by force and those already living there were herded up on to the land nobody else really wanted.
By Mayberry, do you mean Mount Airy? It seemed pretty blighted when I drove through there last year on my way from the Research Triangle to West Virginia.
As long as either set of programs can open the binary formats, it doesn't matter if the default formats for saving are XML or not.
There actually are a lot of add-ins providing custom Office solutions out there, but the real deal breaker for most corporate customers remains the feature set. OpenOffice.org just lacks many of the more advanced features (and in some cases basic features) found in MS Office that certain business rely on. This is particularly true for spreadsheet software, with Excel still miles ahead of Calc in areas like available formulas, pivot tables and even performance.