There's plenty of technologically literate people in India who can handle working with the new technology that Americans can't bother to learn to use. If the Americans don't want those jobs there are plenty of others who do.
In my state we had a vote on daylight saving. For was 49%, against was 51% and less than half a percent very faulty (informal) votes or non-attendance and that's with compulsory voting. In all other votes there's more people that turn in blank papers or ballots with things like "none of those bastards" written on them, but on daylight saving people seemed to care more about the issue.
Some things have their own time implementations. Other things are not updated without manual intervention. Personally I see some merit in the Chinese option of having the entire place on Beijing time and adjusting work hours regionally instead - or just doing everything on UTC for the rest of us.
Perfect Forward Secrecy? Why not call it Excessive Hubris Before Fuckup? Eventually something is going to be more "perfect" even if the thing is quite good.
A person in my office is currently importing data files first written in 1972 with current software and is able to do so because the data format is a publicly available standard.
The solution existed before Microsoft did. They ignore it because one of their tactics is lockin via obfiscation. What makes it worse is they do not make the effort to make their own products properly compatible with other versions of their own products. Fixing that is a partial solution.
user does try to open a DOCX file (although that would be fixed with a patch
The patch is only a partial implementation. I came across many files it would not work with so the two options available were to use the same version on everything or avoid Microsoft products entirely in workflows. Sadly I had more success with Microsoft *x files with openoffice/libreoffice than earlier versions of MS Office with the patch.
We still today have heated debates over abortion rights.
It was ruled on about forty years ago wasn't it? Just because people are still grumbling is no reason to roll back the clock without it going through the courts again.
Remember the collapse from the housing bubble burst? Who predicted that?
It seemed half the financial pages around the planet were giving it as a reason to pull out of US based investments at what seemed to be about two years before it blew up. Of course the US press didn't want to say anything bad was happening, in the tradition of the manipulative bastards that wanted the quake of 1906 to be known as the "San Francisco Fire" so it wouldn't drive down property values. Economics, PR and politics are very closely linked. Follow the money and you'll see what the economists are going to say, so they should be more trusted on issues where speaking out will not influence their career.
This explains how and why economists lead the charge against climate science. If fudging data is common in their field of study perhaps they think others freezing their arse off in Antarctica are fudging stuff when they obviously could be doing that just as effectively somewhere more comfortable?
Most PowerPoint presentations look like the 1998 internet when BLINK tags roamed the earth and ten fonts a page wasn't seen as excessive so why not have it as some sort of web page creation program instead of an archaic fucking magic lantern show? Currently it's not much different from screen scraping or a rewrite to make a presentation readable via a web browser. All the presentations are made from devices that have web browsers already on them so why not something that looks good in a web browser?
As a nice and obvious icon in MS Windows 7, Mac or something other than Win8 where the "email" pane goes God knows where on the net this week instead of to the default email application.
That sounds like window manager hassles. I suggest temporarily trying a very simple window manager like fluxbox or XFCE and see if the problem goes away. Another option is E17, although in that you can also force completely independent desktops if you want (good for full screen games on one screen not effected by switching virtual desktops on another).
The problem is MS hasn't. If it could be shrunk to a 20 pixel high row of icons like in some of Microsoft's other products in the past then it would be less annoying to the people that hassle me about it.
The compatibility pack is not fully compatible. I had it on a dozen machines for a couple of years but eventually had to bite the bullet and upgrade everyone at once. Having mixed versions of MS office while people are sharing documents appears to be worse than sharing between libre/openoffice and MS Office. Stuff like images in documents goes missing instead of just font and formatting hassles.
I tried OO but it mangled the HR forms work requires
The PDF format is how old now? Having forms where users can change any little bit of the form they like kind of defeats the entire purpose of having forms. Get a big enough place and eventually some sociopath will modify an official form/contract whatever to their personal advantage and present it as "evidence".
Your coworkers get butchered documents from you, then ignore it and revisions later, IT gets asked to "cleanup" the formatting bugs yuou injected and everyone else copy pasted over.
That's a different story. With actual collaboration on documents even different versions of MS Office introduce problems so either everyone has to be on the same program or plain text via email or whatever is used.
Outlook... generally are better
Now I'm not sure if you are trolling or just haven't seen the many unique little ways Outlook breaks and pisses off sysadmins.
I use libreoffice myself, but that doesn't stop people asking me all the time how to change the icon size in the ribbon and other stuff MS has hardwired in to annoy the crap out of people that want to tweak their interface. As for Win8 - one example - no easy way to force downloads of updates immediately after and install other than fucking search for "windows update"? The inbetween interface is broken since they've removed bits from the old start menu without adding them to either of the two interfaces. I dislike the start screen idea but do not really hate it - what I do hate is the flawed implementation which makes it look like it was rushed out the door half finished.
What if I object to funding the health care of people who smoke, drink or don't belong to whatever small sect of a Church I belong to? That's going to create a budget hole plus an expensive tangle of red tape once that sort of "freedom" gets going.
If people want a government run on religious lines instead of for everyone there's one setting up in the middle of Iraq and Syria about now.
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Then why blame the language?
There's plenty of technologically literate people in India who can handle working with the new technology that Americans can't bother to learn to use. If the Americans don't want those jobs there are plenty of others who do.
In my state we had a vote on daylight saving. For was 49%, against was 51% and less than half a percent very faulty (informal) votes or non-attendance and that's with compulsory voting. In all other votes there's more people that turn in blank papers or ballots with things like "none of those bastards" written on them, but on daylight saving people seemed to care more about the issue.
Some things have their own time implementations. Other things are not updated without manual intervention.
Personally I see some merit in the Chinese option of having the entire place on Beijing time and adjusting work hours regionally instead - or just doing everything on UTC for the rest of us.
Perfect Forward Secrecy? Why not call it Excessive Hubris Before Fuckup? Eventually something is going to be more "perfect" even if the thing is quite good.
A person in my office is currently importing data files first written in 1972 with current software and is able to do so because the data format is a publicly available standard.
The solution existed before Microsoft did.
They ignore it because one of their tactics is lockin via obfiscation. What makes it worse is they do not make the effort to make their own products properly compatible with other versions of their own products. Fixing that is a partial solution.
The patch is only a partial implementation. I came across many files it would not work with so the two options available were to use the same version on everything or avoid Microsoft products entirely in workflows. Sadly I had more success with Microsoft *x files with openoffice/libreoffice than earlier versions of MS Office with the patch.
It was ruled on about forty years ago wasn't it? Just because people are still grumbling is no reason to roll back the clock without it going through the courts again.
Even worse, it can be rented on a yearly basis.
It seemed half the financial pages around the planet were giving it as a reason to pull out of US based investments at what seemed to be about two years before it blew up. Of course the US press didn't want to say anything bad was happening, in the tradition of the manipulative bastards that wanted the quake of 1906 to be known as the "San Francisco Fire" so it wouldn't drive down property values.
Economics, PR and politics are very closely linked. Follow the money and you'll see what the economists are going to say, so they should be more trusted on issues where speaking out will not influence their career.
It works though. Economists predicted 80 of the last two recessions.
This explains how and why economists lead the charge against climate science. If fudging data is common in their field of study perhaps they think others freezing their arse off in Antarctica are fudging stuff when they obviously could be doing that just as effectively somewhere more comfortable?
Shall I point you back to your disgusting suggestion that started all this off or will that ruin this new lie?
Most PowerPoint presentations look like the 1998 internet when BLINK tags roamed the earth and ten fonts a page wasn't seen as excessive so why not have it as some sort of web page creation program instead of an archaic fucking magic lantern show? Currently it's not much different from screen scraping or a rewrite to make a presentation readable via a web browser.
All the presentations are made from devices that have web browsers already on them so why not something that looks good in a web browser?
As a nice and obvious icon in MS Windows 7, Mac or something other than Win8 where the "email" pane goes God knows where on the net this week instead of to the default email application.
Clearly only as the file format to save it as.
That sounds like window manager hassles. I suggest temporarily trying a very simple window manager like fluxbox or XFCE and see if the problem goes away. Another option is E17, although in that you can also force completely independent desktops if you want (good for full screen games on one screen not effected by switching virtual desktops on another).
Some of us install things for other people.
Please post serious suggestions instead of roleplaying the "but single bit operations are faster" idiot that you are not.
The problem is MS hasn't. If it could be shrunk to a 20 pixel high row of icons like in some of Microsoft's other products in the past then it would be less annoying to the people that hassle me about it.
The compatibility pack is not fully compatible. I had it on a dozen machines for a couple of years but eventually had to bite the bullet and upgrade everyone at once. Having mixed versions of MS office while people are sharing documents appears to be worse than sharing between libre/openoffice and MS Office. Stuff like images in documents goes missing instead of just font and formatting hassles.
Personally I think HTML etc should have killed powerpoint a decade ago since the final resting place of decent presentations is online anyway.
The PDF format is how old now?
Having forms where users can change any little bit of the form they like kind of defeats the entire purpose of having forms. Get a big enough place and eventually some sociopath will modify an official form/contract whatever to their personal advantage and present it as "evidence".
That's a different story. With actual collaboration on documents even different versions of MS Office introduce problems so either everyone has to be on the same program or plain text via email or whatever is used.
Now I'm not sure if you are trolling or just haven't seen the many unique little ways Outlook breaks and pisses off sysadmins.
I use libreoffice myself, but that doesn't stop people asking me all the time how to change the icon size in the ribbon and other stuff MS has hardwired in to annoy the crap out of people that want to tweak their interface.
As for Win8 - one example - no easy way to force downloads of updates immediately after and install other than fucking search for "windows update"? The inbetween interface is broken since they've removed bits from the old start menu without adding them to either of the two interfaces. I dislike the start screen idea but do not really hate it - what I do hate is the flawed implementation which makes it look like it was rushed out the door half finished.
No point in splitting hairs.
It's as stupid and disgusting as wanting to forbid medical treatment to former smokers on moral grounds.
What if I object to funding the health care of people who smoke, drink or don't belong to whatever small sect of a Church I belong to? That's going to create a budget hole plus an expensive tangle of red tape once that sort of "freedom" gets going.
If people want a government run on religious lines instead of for everyone there's one setting up in the middle of Iraq and Syria about now.