1) I'm pretty sure people are voting for things other than the Presidency where the available options are not as immediately recognizable to a non-English speaker as 'George W. Bush' is.
2) Being informed is critical to the democratic process. Knowing English isn't. Failure to offer non-English balloting options is as potentially harmful to the process as Diebold is. Given how patriotic new citizens tend to be, it strikes me as a shame to exclude someone who recently arrived on our fair shores.
That said, mechanical voting does seem to be the best option currently.
You make an excellent point. If all of your native apps are Windows native and all of your employees are trained only on Windows, you pretty much have to run Windows, at least in the short term.
If we are on the verge of running out of oxygen, we can't just suggest that everyone start breathing hydrogen.
The military's budget need not remain constant to maintain a constant level of 'security'. Consider that the threat of terrorism is very different from the threat of the Soviet Union. The military budget at the start of Clinton's term (assuming that Bush 1 didn't reduce it during his term) was at cold war levels. Clinton simply responded to the change in the nature and scale of the threat.
Having said that, I am making a ton of assumptions here that may not bear out in fact. For instance, is fighting terrorism cheaper than a nuclear arms race? I would guess that it is (or should be), but what do I know? YMMV.
It's like 'grassroots', but fake. Basically, it's ground-level marketing that's undertaken by a large interest (corporation, for example) to simulate a grassroots 'movement' or groundswell, when, in fact, it's just as calculated as any other marketting effort.
I would imagine that he's refering to the cost of not using a more widely adopted / usable format. Not that I am not making a value statement re: png - I am merely offering an explanation of the gp.
being afraid for your profits over such a trivial matter as a differing image format is..trivial.
No disrespect intended, but endangering profit (the least trivial matter in business) to take a quixotic stand on something as trival as a file format is insane.
One keys to success on the web is the stickiness of your page. Given the ease with which one can close their browser or move to a different page, asking anything much of your user is poor practice at best. Certainly, asking that they switch browsers is out of bounds.
You may have the best soup in town - if that's the case, be a soup nazi. Given the way the web works, though, it is somewhat safe to say that someone else can compete with you on quality. If they offer better accessibility / usability to more people, they (all other things being equal) will win. You can celebrate your good 'long range business sense' all the way to the unemployment office.
I find it difficult to believe your posts are anything other than (too) lengthy trolls, but on the off-chance you are serious, you may call me callous, but I am not going to be 'ashamed' over web design or browser use. And I'm certainly not going to 'spit in [my employer's] face' over it.
You choice of a browser is not on the same level of courage as being a freedom rider or standing in front of a tank in China. Get over yourself and climb down off of your cross.
Didn't that one chick (not Priss - the other) work as a stripper - with the snake and whatnot? Also, that transparent raincoat may not technically count as being naked, but it's close enough for my purposes.
Ever since the stores started this policy, I don't get the local bottle collectors ringing at my door to collect my empties anymore.
That might not be a bad thing. I'm not sure I want to be spare-changed at my house.
In all seriousness, that is BS. I highly doubt that's fly in where I live (Portland, Oregon), but I would imagine that these laws vary from place to place.
Yet another plug for the Beaver State - we had one of (if not the first) bottle bills in the US. Yay, hippies!
IIRC, the Segway's top speed is 12mph. That's a 5 minute mile. If you can keep make that pace, my hat is off to you. Certainly a cop in polyester pants and wearing a belt weighting n lbs. would be hard pressed to. Of course, here in Portland, they'd just shoot you in the back and be done with it.:(
I don't know that she was running a business on hotmail. My take was that she was conducting business - applying for jobs maybe, or, as the article stated, purchasing a trip.
Additionally, the $250 represents a sunken cost (one that, believe it or not, some people who are very much a part of the economy - however small a part they may be - cannot afford) while the ongoing cost of of an ISP (say, $20/month * 12 = $240/year) is significant to warrant a mention in your analysis.
For the most part, you're probably right. On the other hand, there are many job opportunities that you would simply miss out on were you unable to search / apply via the web. Certain companies using recruitsoft, for example, may have a method of applying other than via the web, but they clearly prefer online applications. And getting a job is the most likely way to escape poverty that I can think of.
Isn't part of the bloat that Windows is so often (and appropriately) accused of directly attributable to having to support a nearly infinite number of hardware / software configurations?
Aren't you complaining about the converse of that - that Linux [can't|doesn't currently] support every possible software / hardware configuration?
I am really not trying to troll here, but in all honesty, you are quite a bit closer to the bleeding edge than most (and I'm a little jealous) so you have to expect that the edge is, well, farther from the center.
I would imagine that its not the end of your world that you can't use Real / Flash on your machine - if you're like me, you probably question the worth of most media in those formats. On the other hand, we hear all the time that one of the principal strengths of Linux is what it does that nothing else does as well or as easily / cheaply. Anyone can install the Flash player on a Win98 box - I would guess that you probably have more specialized uses for your machines that a Win98 box wouldn't address. Just as my (imaginary and probably faulty as an analogy) Porsche can't pull my (equally imaginary) boat as well as a truck could.
That said, when you get your OOS Real / Flash player written, feel free to post it here. Otherwise, wait 6 months, and I'm sure someone will come up with something.:)
You're right. Social movements (40 hour week and minimum wage) stop at state borders and correlation = causation. What do you suppose would happen if your state (and I'm curious which one it is) mandated 80 hour weeks and made its minimun wage $1.25 / hour? Do you think it'd be more or less difficult to attract a workforce?
Also, I am aware that minimum wage is federally mandated - I'm using that example to make a point. If that doesn't do it for you, ask yourself why minimum wage is federally mandated.
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Sophistry aside, that quote comes from a fund-raising letter that Walden O'Dell (CEO of Diebold) wrote on behalf of the Republican party.
While your reasoning holds up in a vacuum, a cursory glance at the context should make his meaning obvious.
On the other hand, it is possible that I have been trolled.
1) I'm pretty sure people are voting for things other than the Presidency where the available options are not as immediately recognizable to a non-English speaker as 'George W. Bush' is. 2) Being informed is critical to the democratic process. Knowing English isn't. Failure to offer non-English balloting options is as potentially harmful to the process as Diebold is. Given how patriotic new citizens tend to be, it strikes me as a shame to exclude someone who recently arrived on our fair shores. That said, mechanical voting does seem to be the best option currently.
You make an excellent point. If all of your native apps are Windows native and all of your employees are trained only on Windows, you pretty much have to run Windows, at least in the short term. If we are on the verge of running out of oxygen, we can't just suggest that everyone start breathing hydrogen.
Windowless IE?
Like this?
Thanks for your reply. It's an intriguing idea and worth thinking about.
An intriguing idea, but why wouldn't I, as a potential licensee, just wait to be the 11th person?
I'll bite.
The military's budget need not remain constant to maintain a constant level of 'security'. Consider that the threat of terrorism is very different from the threat of the Soviet Union. The military budget at the start of Clinton's term (assuming that Bush 1 didn't reduce it during his term) was at cold war levels. Clinton simply responded to the change in the nature and scale of the threat.
Having said that, I am making a ton of assumptions here that may not bear out in fact. For instance, is fighting terrorism cheaper than a nuclear arms race? I would guess that it is (or should be), but what do I know? YMMV.
It means Organic Electroluminescent apparently. News to me, too.
It's like 'grassroots', but fake. Basically, it's ground-level marketing that's undertaken by a large interest (corporation, for example) to simulate a grassroots 'movement' or groundswell, when, in fact, it's just as calculated as any other marketting effort.
At least apples and oranges are both fruit...
I would imagine that he's refering to the cost of not using a more widely adopted / usable format. Not that I am not making a value statement re: png - I am merely offering an explanation of the gp.
being afraid for your profits over such a trivial matter as a differing image format is..trivial.
No disrespect intended, but endangering profit (the least trivial matter in business) to take a quixotic stand on something as trival as a file format is insane.
One keys to success on the web is the stickiness of your page. Given the ease with which one can close their browser or move to a different page, asking anything much of your user is poor practice at best. Certainly, asking that they switch browsers is out of bounds.
You may have the best soup in town - if that's the case, be a soup nazi. Given the way the web works, though, it is somewhat safe to say that someone else can compete with you on quality. If they offer better accessibility / usability to more people, they (all other things being equal) will win. You can celebrate your good 'long range business sense' all the way to the unemployment office.
I find it difficult to believe your posts are anything other than (too) lengthy trolls, but on the off-chance you are serious, you may call me callous, but I am not going to be 'ashamed' over web design or browser use. And I'm certainly not going to 'spit in [my employer's] face' over it.
You choice of a browser is not on the same level of courage as being a freedom rider or standing in front of a tank in China. Get over yourself and climb down off of your cross.
A bit like those 'stripped down' flight classes that teach you how to fly a plane but not how to take off or land, no? :)
It'd be a lot easier for me if you'd just post yr. bank account number - that way I could wire you the money. :)
Awaiting your response...
from the gp:
Of course there are some tasks for which C or C++ are the still best choice for other reasons
Didn't that one chick (not Priss - the other) work as a stripper - with the snake and whatnot? Also, that transparent raincoat may not technically count as being naked, but it's close enough for my purposes.
Ever since the stores started this policy, I don't get the local bottle collectors ringing at my door to collect my empties anymore.
That might not be a bad thing. I'm not sure I want to be spare-changed at my house.
In all seriousness, that is BS. I highly doubt that's fly in where I live (Portland, Oregon), but I would imagine that these laws vary from place to place.
Yet another plug for the Beaver State - we had one of (if not the first) bottle bills in the US. Yay, hippies!
IIRC, the Segway's top speed is 12mph. That's a 5 minute mile. If you can keep make that pace, my hat is off to you. Certainly a cop in polyester pants and wearing a belt weighting n lbs. would be hard pressed to. :(
Of course, here in Portland, they'd just shoot you in the back and be done with it.
I don't know that she was running a business on hotmail. My take was that she was conducting business - applying for jobs maybe, or, as the article stated, purchasing a trip.
Additionally, the $250 represents a sunken cost (one that, believe it or not, some people who are very much a part of the economy - however small a part they may be - cannot afford) while the ongoing cost of of an ISP (say, $20/month * 12 = $240/year) is significant to warrant a mention in your analysis.
For the most part, you're probably right. On the other hand, there are many job opportunities that you would simply miss out on were you unable to search / apply via the web. Certain companies using recruitsoft, for example, may have a method of applying other than via the web, but they clearly prefer online applications. And getting a job is the most likely way to escape poverty that I can think of.
Some people might argue that communism isn't even a good idea on paper. :)
Prepare to be sued by Lars "Big City Lawyer" Ulrich.
Isn't part of the bloat that Windows is so often (and appropriately) accused of directly attributable to having to support a nearly infinite number of hardware / software configurations?
:)
Aren't you complaining about the converse of that - that Linux [can't|doesn't currently] support every possible software / hardware configuration?
I am really not trying to troll here, but in all honesty, you are quite a bit closer to the bleeding edge than most (and I'm a little jealous) so you have to expect that the edge is, well, farther from the center.
I would imagine that its not the end of your world that you can't use Real / Flash on your machine - if you're like me, you probably question the worth of most media in those formats. On the other hand, we hear all the time that one of the principal strengths of Linux is what it does that nothing else does as well or as easily / cheaply. Anyone can install the Flash player on a Win98 box - I would guess that you probably have more specialized uses for your machines that a Win98 box wouldn't address. Just as my (imaginary and probably faulty as an analogy) Porsche can't pull my (equally imaginary) boat as well as a truck could.
That said, when you get your OOS Real / Flash player written, feel free to post it here. Otherwise, wait 6 months, and I'm sure someone will come up with something.
You're right. Social movements (40 hour week and minimum wage) stop at state borders and correlation = causation. What do you suppose would happen if your state (and I'm curious which one it is) mandated 80 hour weeks and made its minimun wage $1.25 / hour? Do you think it'd be more or less difficult to attract a workforce?
Also, I am aware that minimum wage is federally mandated - I'm using that example to make a point. If that doesn't do it for you, ask yourself why minimum wage is federally mandated.
You know, Answer Me is still the best reference suicide and serial killer reference I own.
In other news, he lives in the same town I do, so I hope he doesn't kick my ass.