Why is it opponents of free markets completely fail to understand what a free market is and what has to be done to ensure a free market can exist? If you allow people to be totally free and unregulated then you don't even have a society. You have to have the rule of law. You have to give people rules so they can't trample all over each other. You have to spend a lot of energy preventing or breaking up monopolies, because a monopoly is the antithesis of a free market.
You really need to know at least a little about something before you can be opposed to it. Of course, when the only argument you can make against something is a totally invalid one, you pretty much are admitting you can't find anything legitimately bad about it.
There is a lot of business software that runs only on windows so the whole "just switch to linux" thing is quite impossible in many cases. Of course the problem here isn't windows, it's McAfee, but don't let that stop you from pretending that linux is superior to windows in every way.
The needs of the business dictates what O/S is used. Sometimes linux is best, sometimes windows is. If I acted like a fanboy and let my personal bias overrun the needs of the company then I wouldn't have a job for very long, and neither would a lot of other people in I.T.
In my case it's pretty easy though. The software doesn't exist for linux that could fill our business needs so switching from windows to linux would be a horrible choice, ruin the company, and put a lot of people out of work.
Remember, dreaming is free...until you forget your dreaming.
You don't get it. You don't get to choose what kind of car you drive anymore. That liberty was taken from you a long time ago. You will drive what the government says you can drive.
This article is great, and to make things easy at the end there's a nice picture showing all the different processors and how their performance compares to their price.
Just drop to the bottom of the page and select page 17. Make a copy of those images and buying a processor will be super easy.
It is impossible to use God's creations to prove that He doesn't exist. When science contradicts our "beliefs" then our beliefs must change. This is where most anti-science Christians fall apart. The mechanics God used to create everything are pretty irrelevant. They're fascinating, sure, but one doesn't need to understand this article to get to heaven.
God made us in His image, but what image is that? His physical image? His spiritual one? If he meant in His spiritual image then evolution and all this science ceases to contradict scripture. Adam and Eve could have just been the first two to receive souls.
The purpose of the religion is to give us guidelines to be good people, love one another, and help others in need but too many of my fellow Christians seem to forget that and get hung up on their "beliefs" being contradicted by science.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins for a reason.
My wife loved her portable dvd player till the dog chewed the power cables up. Instead of buying a new one I just learned how to rip and shrink her dvd's so they would play on her LG Xenon. She LOVES IT. Yes, movies stop when a text or call comes in but she just starts the movie again and moves the slider to about where she was.
Yes she does find it annoying but she prefers it over carting around a portable dvd player.
When she saw the AT&T commercial for the LG phone with a projector she flipped and demanded I get it for her. Yes, buying that new 1TB drive has been put on hold. lol
If they build a phone to resume a movie when you return to it then they'll have a perfect product.
Here's where common sense disappears completely. The ONLY power a corporation has comes as a result of YOU buying their products. If you don't want them to have power stop buying their stuff.
You won't do that though, because you cannot live without the conveniences they provide for you, but keep crying a river about people having money and power YOU voluntarily gave to them. If you truly hated corporations then you would change your lifestyle to one not completely dependent on them.
How about not electing government officials that take bribes from corporations? You can't blame corporations for the actions of politicians.
You mean before global cooling was recognized as the important issue that is is? Er, was? I remember the global cooling scare. It's no different than the global warming scare. Nothing but a bunch of crap designed to make a few people a lot of money.
MS Office really doesn't cost that much if you look at the cost over time. We used office 2000 until 2008 when we started getting Office 2k7 documents. That's pretty damn cheap when you look at the cost spread over 8 years. I expect Office 2k7 to be good for at least 5 years, maybe more. Hard to predict the future.
The problem isn't with opening our own documents, it's with opening everyone else's which is why I said "when you constantly transfer documents between hundreds of other companies." We only use office docs for a short time anyway so compatibility between versions doesn't really matter, but if we can't open a document from a customer then that's lost revenue. If all our customers used open office then we would use open office. They don't so we can't.
We've never had a problem opening an ms office document with ms office. Ever. We have however had problems opening office documents with open office. All the rhetoric in the world does not erase the facts. Open office failed in the first day it was tested so it was thrown out the window. This is common sense in business. If you have a choice of two tools and one works and one doesn't then you use the one that does. Doesn't matter that it's free if it doesn't do what you need to do.
When your job is to make it possible for other people to do their jobs then there is no room for fanboyism. You use what works, period. I'd love to switch to linux but some of the work we do cannot be done on linux. In a business you cannot confuse your fantasies with reality. In my fantasies we use linux and open office. In reality we use windows and MS Office.
You also fail to understand the reality of the business place and human nature. It doesn't matter that people are not utilizing 100% of their time. That is completely and totally irrelevant to their reaction, and the reaction of the owner, when you tell them you are going to make it take longer to do their job. Even if it is only a few minutes, it will not fly.
It is not "just as good." I attempted to switch my company from MS Office to Open Office. We came across one spreadsheet it butchered to hell when it opened. It opened all the rest just fine but that one. In a business environment 99.9999% compatible isn't good enough. If a program can't open one file then there is no reason to switch.
It may work just fine for individual use, but in an enterprise environment when you constantly transfer documents between hundreds of other companies Open Office is completely useless.
And yeah I've heard the whole "just keep one copy around in case" argument and it does not hold water in a business. People have a lot of work to do and anything that slows them down, even if it is only by a few minutes, is unacceptable.
Nice to see you believe liberty includes the right to murder. You don't have the first clue what liberty is. Get a dictionary, then chastise. Not the other way around.
My company put off upgrading from w2k to XP until this year. You cannot surf the web with IE6 on w2k at all. Just about any site with any complexity crashes the browser. We had to install firefox so people could surf the web. Looks like anyone sticking with w2k will be forced to use Opera. Not sure why Mozilla wants to do that though.
Eve is a sandbox. When you go play in a sand box you're the one that has to make it fun by using your imagination and finding something that you consider fun. You can do an almost limitless number of things in the game and there are very few rules. I usually recommend that new people join one of the training corps that exist, Eve University being one of the larger ones. That's the fastest way to get a handle on the game and find the things that are fun for you. People who do this are usually highly regarded and from there it's easy to be recruited into any of a number of large alliances.
It is rather unfortunate that nobody did. 2 Trillion dollar debt. Reduction in population to "reduce costs." Space weapons bans. Oprah for congress. I'm certainly going to enjoy this ride.
Another statement attesting to the horrible state of our education system. The President has no control over the economy. Congress and the Fed have that power. Clinton's wonderful economy that people love to credit him with was actually the fault of the Republican controlled congress during his term. The same way our economy was great during Bush until the Democrats took over congress in 2006. Neither Clinton nor Bush were responsible for the state of the economy during their terms. The President can ask for things, but congress and the Fed have to agree with him before it can happen.
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Why is it opponents of free markets completely fail to understand what a free market is and what has to be done to ensure a free market can exist? If you allow people to be totally free and unregulated then you don't even have a society. You have to have the rule of law. You have to give people rules so they can't trample all over each other. You have to spend a lot of energy preventing or breaking up monopolies, because a monopoly is the antithesis of a free market.
You really need to know at least a little about something before you can be opposed to it. Of course, when the only argument you can make against something is a totally invalid one, you pretty much are admitting you can't find anything legitimately bad about it.
There is a lot of business software that runs only on windows so the whole "just switch to linux" thing is quite impossible in many cases. Of course the problem here isn't windows, it's McAfee, but don't let that stop you from pretending that linux is superior to windows in every way.
The needs of the business dictates what O/S is used. Sometimes linux is best, sometimes windows is. If I acted like a fanboy and let my personal bias overrun the needs of the company then I wouldn't have a job for very long, and neither would a lot of other people in I.T.
In my case it's pretty easy though. The software doesn't exist for linux that could fill our business needs so switching from windows to linux would be a horrible choice, ruin the company, and put a lot of people out of work.
Remember, dreaming is free...until you forget your dreaming.
You don't get it. You don't get to choose what kind of car you drive anymore. That liberty was taken from you a long time ago. You will drive what the government says you can drive.
Nothing gets you karma points faster than bashing Fox.
MOD PARENT UP. I'm out of points. :(
This article is great, and to make things easy at the end there's a nice picture showing all the different processors and how their performance compares to their price.
Just drop to the bottom of the page and select page 17. Make a copy of those images and buying a processor will be super easy.
It is impossible to use God's creations to prove that He doesn't exist. When science contradicts our "beliefs" then our beliefs must change. This is where most anti-science Christians fall apart. The mechanics God used to create everything are pretty irrelevant. They're fascinating, sure, but one doesn't need to understand this article to get to heaven.
God made us in His image, but what image is that? His physical image? His spiritual one? If he meant in His spiritual image then evolution and all this science ceases to contradict scripture. Adam and Eve could have just been the first two to receive souls.
The purpose of the religion is to give us guidelines to be good people, love one another, and help others in need but too many of my fellow Christians seem to forget that and get hung up on their "beliefs" being contradicted by science.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins for a reason.
My wife loved her portable dvd player till the dog chewed the power cables up. Instead of buying a new one I just learned how to rip and shrink her dvd's so they would play on her LG Xenon. She LOVES IT. Yes, movies stop when a text or call comes in but she just starts the movie again and moves the slider to about where she was.
Yes she does find it annoying but she prefers it over carting around a portable dvd player.
When she saw the AT&T commercial for the LG phone with a projector she flipped and demanded I get it for her. Yes, buying that new 1TB drive has been put on hold. lol
If they build a phone to resume a movie when you return to it then they'll have a perfect product.
They're not "on it." They admitted they were powerless to solve their own problems without help from their victims.
I can't imagine a worse punishment than putting a woman's weight on twitter.
Here's where common sense disappears completely. The ONLY power a corporation has comes as a result of YOU buying their products. If you don't want them to have power stop buying their stuff.
You won't do that though, because you cannot live without the conveniences they provide for you, but keep crying a river about people having money and power YOU voluntarily gave to them. If you truly hated corporations then you would change your lifestyle to one not completely dependent on them.
How about not electing government officials that take bribes from corporations? You can't blame corporations for the actions of politicians.
Your hate of corporations is ill-founded.
to see Stephen Hawking's avatar. I wonder if he gets a free mount.
You mean before global cooling was recognized as the important issue that is is? Er, was? I remember the global cooling scare. It's no different than the global warming scare. Nothing but a bunch of crap designed to make a few people a lot of money.
ASUS has an overclocking program that turns your power button into a turbo button.
http://www.pureoverclock.com/story3425.html
Dude, slow down and chew your propaganda longer. You're choking on it.
MS Office really doesn't cost that much if you look at the cost over time. We used office 2000 until 2008 when we started getting Office 2k7 documents. That's pretty damn cheap when you look at the cost spread over 8 years. I expect Office 2k7 to be good for at least 5 years, maybe more. Hard to predict the future.
The problem isn't with opening our own documents, it's with opening everyone else's which is why I said "when you constantly transfer documents between hundreds of other companies." We only use office docs for a short time anyway so compatibility between versions doesn't really matter, but if we can't open a document from a customer then that's lost revenue. If all our customers used open office then we would use open office. They don't so we can't.
We've never had a problem opening an ms office document with ms office. Ever. We have however had problems opening office documents with open office. All the rhetoric in the world does not erase the facts. Open office failed in the first day it was tested so it was thrown out the window. This is common sense in business. If you have a choice of two tools and one works and one doesn't then you use the one that does. Doesn't matter that it's free if it doesn't do what you need to do.
When your job is to make it possible for other people to do their jobs then there is no room for fanboyism. You use what works, period. I'd love to switch to linux but some of the work we do cannot be done on linux. In a business you cannot confuse your fantasies with reality. In my fantasies we use linux and open office. In reality we use windows and MS Office.
You also fail to understand the reality of the business place and human nature. It doesn't matter that people are not utilizing 100% of their time. That is completely and totally irrelevant to their reaction, and the reaction of the owner, when you tell them you are going to make it take longer to do their job. Even if it is only a few minutes, it will not fly.
It is not "just as good." I attempted to switch my company from MS Office to Open Office. We came across one spreadsheet it butchered to hell when it opened. It opened all the rest just fine but that one. In a business environment 99.9999% compatible isn't good enough. If a program can't open one file then there is no reason to switch.
It may work just fine for individual use, but in an enterprise environment when you constantly transfer documents between hundreds of other companies Open Office is completely useless.
And yeah I've heard the whole "just keep one copy around in case" argument and it does not hold water in a business. People have a lot of work to do and anything that slows them down, even if it is only by a few minutes, is unacceptable.
Please make sure you are using a 19" flat screen monitor with the resolution set to exactly 1024x768.
Nice to see you believe liberty includes the right to murder. You don't have the first clue what liberty is. Get a dictionary, then chastise. Not the other way around.
My company put off upgrading from w2k to XP until this year. You cannot surf the web with IE6 on w2k at all. Just about any site with any complexity crashes the browser. We had to install firefox so people could surf the web.
Looks like anyone sticking with w2k will be forced to use Opera. Not sure why Mozilla wants to do that though.
I hope to God you don't reboot as often as you eat.
Eve is a sandbox. When you go play in a sand box you're the one that has to make it fun by using your imagination and finding something that you consider fun. You can do an almost limitless number of things in the game and there are very few rules. I usually recommend that new people join one of the training corps that exist, Eve University being one of the larger ones. That's the fastest way to get a handle on the game and find the things that are fun for you. People who do this are usually highly regarded and from there it's easy to be recruited into any of a number of large alliances.
You're supposed to ask, "To WHAT?"
It is rather unfortunate that nobody did. 2 Trillion dollar debt. Reduction in population to "reduce costs." Space weapons bans. Oprah for congress. I'm certainly going to enjoy this ride.
Another statement attesting to the horrible state of our education system. The President has no control over the economy. Congress and the Fed have that power. Clinton's wonderful economy that people love to credit him with was actually the fault of the Republican controlled congress during his term. The same way our economy was great during Bush until the Democrats took over congress in 2006. Neither Clinton nor Bush were responsible for the state of the economy during their terms.
The President can ask for things, but congress and the Fed have to agree with him before it can happen.