Say it quietly, but through all my trials of mail on
Linux, Outlook has just worked
Sorry to say--but this has been my experience too...sigh. It's been awhile,
but I think(?) it was the inability to create a rule to automatically forward
certain emails with Evolution. Outlook does, which is a shame since I loved
nearly everything else in Evolution.
I'm sure that someone will tell me something to the effect of, 'all you have
to do is hack the source code, dumbass' but, honestly, I'm not that smart.
I merely pointed out through example, and he immediately took exception to this, that you can be educated, employed, poor, and working your ass off all at the same time.
True enough. I hope that I didn't seem like I was supporting his point-of-view about the poor.
I think many people who aren't poor that espouse those opinions do so because it
relieves them of the guilt and/or responsibility to do something about the
plight of those in need.
Gotta love those public school teachers who stay
poor because of bad decisions or lifestyle choices that led them away from the
big bucks.
Your point is well-taken, but why does everyone think that public school
teachers are so underpaid?
I live in a medium-large Midwestern city that pays its
teachers an average of $47,000/yr. Considering the fact that they're working
only 9.5 months per yr, that means that they're making around $60,000/yr
adjusted.
Most teachers have a BA. The Teacher's College at the university here has
the lowest entrance requirements and pulls the lowest GPA and SAT students.
What's more, teachers' salaries have more than kept pace with inflation.
And they're off weekends, holidays, summers. It's
not that I begrudge teachers the salary they get...if I thought that I could
stand dealing with a room full of adolescents, I would do it myself.
American mass transportation systems can't come close to the ease and
convience that the British get from the train system.
Of course, the American mass transportation system can't even compare to
second-class bus service in Mexico.
Get on whatever train you want come back on whatever train you want at
any time. It's great.
I was in Oaxaca, the poorest area of Mexico, a few years back and was amazed
easy it is to get around the city on buses. I live in a Midwestern city of
equivalent size and you can't get anywhere on buses. And in Mexico , there
is the added amusement of bus drivers passing one another on curves going down a
mountain. You just can't buy that kind of entertainment.
The executive was defending the objective clarity of
what hp was doing, not trying to contradict the statement that some of the
people at that conference didn't understand what was presented to them.
There still seems to be confusion surrounding the
topic. At the Gartner conference last month, some IT attendees said they still
say they didn't understand what Carly Fiorina wanted to convey with HP's
Adaptive Enterprise. Do you feel the message is unclear or needs rethinking?
The question that Charles asked had to do directly with the IT attendees
opinion of the clarity of Carly's presentation at the Gartner conference.
Nora's response was also directed at Carly's presentation because she said
''I disagree that it was [emphasis mine]
unclear.'' Obviously, the past tense (preterit) must refer to past action
or state. If she were referring to the ''objective
clarity'' of the AE program, that hasn't changed and would be in the present
tense, as in ''I disagree that it is unclear.''
Ideally, the whole purpose of a presentation is to be clear (although I must
admit that in this case I suspect that the objective may have been the opposite)
and the audience is the only meaningful judge of clarity for a presentation
since they were the one(s) for whom the presentation was given. For
example, if I tell you, ''Yo quiero una chuleta de cerdo,'' you may or may not
understand that I'm requesting a pork chop in Spanish. Of course I could
give you some elitist crap about how the ''objective clarity'' of the statement
is unambiguous and insinuate that it's your fault that you don't understand.
Charles: ''There still seems to be confusion surrounding the topic. At
the Gartner conference last month, some IT attendees said they still say they
didn't understand what Carly Fiorina wanted to convey with HP's Adaptive
Enterprise. Do you feel the message is unclear or needs rethinking?''
Nora: ''I disagree that it was unclear...''
This is the height of corporate arrogance. If someone doesn't understand an
idea that has been presented to them, then it is by definition unclear.
I would think that it would be the responsibility of the entity selling
something to be able to clearly communicate what the product actually is and
what it's benefits are.
As far as I can tell, AE is the same thing that independent consultants have
been offering for years. It's a classic case of ''The Emperor Has No
Clothes,'' and the whole point of this asinine jargon that HP is using is to
bully the prospective buyer into thinking that it must be far more complicated
than their simple minds can handle. I almost spewed my diet cola through
my nose when Nora (presumably with a straight face) said that ''you
can't buy an Adaptive Enterprise.'' If you can't buy it, then how can they
sell it? Whoops--better call HP and buy a 55-gallon drum of their
HP Special Snake Oil to straighten it all out for us!
Much of what I do is helping the average business owner/manager with 8
workstations understand that they don't actually need the $18,000 server that
was pitched to them by some IT Barnum with a handful of glossy brochures touting
''industry-leading scalability and resource utilization.'' When they find
out that their old P3 workstation with an extra hard drive, TRAVAN drive and
SAMBA is up to the task of tossing 4MB data files across their peer-to-peer
network, they're quite surprised.
I quit my Fortune 500 job two years ago when I just couldn't take the idiocy
anymore. True, I make half of what I used to, I work 50% more hours, and
my medical benefits suck, but at least I don't have to talk to people who can't
finish a sentence without using the words ''dynamic,'' ''deploy,''
''real-time,'' or ''paradigm,'' and that makes it all worth it.
Kudos to Charles Cooper for taking this Carly Fiorina sycophant to task.
Unfortunately, if this writer keeps it up, he either won't have a job or nobody
in the IT business will give him interviews.
Well, it's not too surprising. Companies are just taking advantage of the IT job market FUD to maximize profits.
I live in the low-tech capital of the US midwest, Cincinnati, and I have a friend with an MSCE who is doing network setups for $10/hr. One of his equally underpaid co-workers has an MSCE and RHCE.
I don't know why people always assume that the rich are conservative.
Rich folks are more often that not apolitical--as absurd as it may seem, many wealthy people give equal amounts to the Democrat and Republican candidate in a given race. That's because it's more about buying influence for the purposes of
personal enrichment (ie government contracts, zoning, etc...) than for any idealogical beliefs they may have.
I know that's using a broad brush, but I think the gist of my point has some merit.
--The only truly succesful communist community was the first century Christian
church.
I just can't get myself to like Heineken--it has a skunky smell and a strong, yet disagreeable aftertaste. But, then again, I might just have a low-brow taste in beers since I don't like most imports.
Some folks have told me that most imports are mishandled and the taste has been badly degraded, but who knows?
I do know that most beers imported into this coutry bear little resemblance to their native counterparts (Corona is a perfect example).
I like the imported Mexican beer Bohemia (pronounced Bo aim' ee ah) a whole lot, Sam Adams is good, Rolling Rock is my favorite standard domestic fair, Guiness agrees with me at times. Bud Light is disgusting, as is Miller Lite, Coors Light, etc...
"Porque el Hijo del Hombre no vino para ser servido, sino para servir, y para dar su vida en rescate por muchos"
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Say it quietly, but through all my trials of mail on Linux, Outlook has just worked
Sorry to say--but this has been my experience too...sigh. It's been awhile, but I think(?) it was the inability to create a rule to automatically forward certain emails with Evolution. Outlook does, which is a shame since I loved nearly everything else in Evolution.
I'm sure that someone will tell me something to the effect of, 'all you have to do is hack the source code, dumbass' but, honestly, I'm not that smart.
True enough. I hope that I didn't seem like I was supporting his point-of-view about the poor. I think many people who aren't poor that espouse those opinions do so because it relieves them of the guilt and/or responsibility to do something about the plight of those in need.
Gotta love those public school teachers who stay poor because of bad decisions or lifestyle choices that led them away from the big bucks.
Your point is well-taken, but why does everyone think that public school teachers are so underpaid?
I live in a medium-large Midwestern city that pays its teachers an average of $47,000/yr. Considering the fact that they're working only 9.5 months per yr, that means that they're making around $60,000/yr adjusted.
Most teachers have a BA. The Teacher's College at the university here has the lowest entrance requirements and pulls the lowest GPA and SAT students. What's more, teachers' salaries have more than kept pace with inflation.
And they're off weekends, holidays, summers. It's not that I begrudge teachers the salary they get...if I thought that I could stand dealing with a room full of adolescents, I would do it myself.
American mass transportation systems can't come close to the ease and convience that the British get from the train system.
Of course, the American mass transportation system can't even compare to second-class bus service in Mexico.
Get on whatever train you want come back on whatever train you want at any time. It's great.
I was in Oaxaca, the poorest area of Mexico, a few years back and was amazed easy it is to get around the city on buses. I live in a Midwestern city of equivalent size and you can't get anywhere on buses. And in Mexico , there is the added amusement of bus drivers passing one another on curves going down a mountain. You just can't buy that kind of entertainment.
Sheeeeshh...seems like you've hit a nerve--so much hostility.
The executive was defending the objective clarity of what hp was doing, not trying to contradict the statement that some of the people at that conference didn't understand what was presented to them.
There still seems to be confusion surrounding the topic. At the Gartner conference last month, some IT attendees said they still say they didn't understand what Carly Fiorina wanted to convey with HP's Adaptive Enterprise. Do you feel the message is unclear or needs rethinking?
The question that Charles asked had to do directly with the IT attendees opinion of the clarity of Carly's presentation at the Gartner conference. Nora's response was also directed at Carly's presentation because she said ''I disagree that it was [emphasis mine] unclear.'' Obviously, the past tense (preterit) must refer to past action or state. If she were referring to the ''objective clarity'' of the AE program, that hasn't changed and would be in the present tense, as in ''I disagree that it is unclear.''
Ideally, the whole purpose of a presentation is to be clear (although I must admit that in this case I suspect that the objective may have been the opposite) and the audience is the only meaningful judge of clarity for a presentation since they were the one(s) for whom the presentation was given. For example, if I tell you, ''Yo quiero una chuleta de cerdo,'' you may or may not understand that I'm requesting a pork chop in Spanish. Of course I could give you some elitist crap about how the ''objective clarity'' of the statement is unambiguous and insinuate that it's your fault that you don't understand.
This is the height of corporate arrogance. If someone doesn't understand an idea that has been presented to them, then it is by definition unclear . I would think that it would be the responsibility of the entity selling something to be able to clearly communicate what the product actually is and what it's benefits are.
As far as I can tell, AE is the same thing that independent consultants have been offering for years. It's a classic case of ''The Emperor Has No Clothes,'' and the whole point of this asinine jargon that HP is using is to bully the prospective buyer into thinking that it must be far more complicated than their simple minds can handle. I almost spewed my diet cola through my nose when Nora (presumably with a straight face) said that ''you can't buy an Adaptive Enterprise.'' If you can't buy it, then how can they sell it? Whoops--better call HP and buy a 55-gallon drum of their HP Special Snake Oil to straighten it all out for us!
Much of what I do is helping the average business owner/manager with 8 workstations understand that they don't actually need the $18,000 server that was pitched to them by some IT Barnum with a handful of glossy brochures touting ''industry-leading scalability and resource utilization.'' When they find out that their old P3 workstation with an extra hard drive, TRAVAN drive and SAMBA is up to the task of tossing 4MB data files across their peer-to-peer network, they're quite surprised.
I quit my Fortune 500 job two years ago when I just couldn't take the idiocy anymore. True, I make half of what I used to, I work 50% more hours, and my medical benefits suck, but at least I don't have to talk to people who can't finish a sentence without using the words ''dynamic,'' ''deploy,'' ''real-time,'' or ''paradigm,'' and that makes it all worth it.
Kudos to Charles Cooper for taking this Carly Fiorina sycophant to task. Unfortunately, if this writer keeps it up, he either won't have a job or nobody in the IT business will give him interviews.
Well, it's not too surprising. Companies are just taking advantage of the IT job market FUD to maximize profits.
I live in the low-tech capital of the US midwest, Cincinnati, and I have a friend with an MSCE who is doing network setups for $10/hr. One of his equally underpaid co-workers has an MSCE and RHCE.
Where will it end??
I don't know why people always assume that the rich are conservative.
Rich folks are more often that not apolitical--as absurd as it may seem, many wealthy people give equal amounts to the Democrat and Republican candidate in a given race. That's because it's more about buying influence for the purposes of personal enrichment (ie government contracts, zoning, etc...) than for any idealogical beliefs they may have.
I know that's using a broad brush, but I think the gist of my point has some merit.
--The only truly succesful communist community was the first century Christian church.
I just can't get myself to like Heineken--it has a skunky smell and a strong, yet disagreeable aftertaste. But, then again, I might just have a low-brow taste in beers since I don't like most imports. Some folks have told me that most imports are mishandled and the taste has been badly degraded, but who knows? I do know that most beers imported into this coutry bear little resemblance to their native counterparts (Corona is a perfect example). I like the imported Mexican beer Bohemia (pronounced Bo aim' ee ah) a whole lot, Sam Adams is good, Rolling Rock is my favorite standard domestic fair, Guiness agrees with me at times. Bud Light is disgusting, as is Miller Lite, Coors Light, etc... "Porque el Hijo del Hombre no vino para ser servido, sino para servir, y para dar su vida en rescate por muchos"