You may be surprised that some of the biggest and most profitable companies do have such a policy.
Every penny is looked at, and turned around before it is spend. People have become billionaires using these tactics. My preferred sample is a Dutch guy who started a company in a small room, and later sold it for billions. All through that time, employees were seated in hallways because there weren't enough offices, so he could save a little on rent!
I see 2 uses for Amazon Unbox:
a. Things that are not available on DVD (such as Jem & The Holograms)
b. If you want to test a series before you buy the DVD box.
I worked for a company that had no hierarchy: of the 4 managers we had, the CEO got fired, the Sales and marketing manager left to join another company and the customer service manager also joined another company. What we were left with was the development manager (it was a software company) who really had a company in a distant country, and came by once every couple months to see whether everyone was happy. Did it work? Yes, because that CEO had made the company a smooth running machine. It ran without him as well. (Albeit he did the accounting, so now that was outsourced)
Democracy is (as has been said here before) a system in which "a majority" take away rights from minorities. It may seem a good idea: every person gets a vote, and the most votes wins. But it works by exclusion of the ones that voted against.
A good system works with a truely good leader, who listens and takes the best decision for everyone. Therefor, it is best if that leader is not influenced himself by the decisions. The best decision may be the one with the least supporters! In absense of such a leader, the system should always strife to have a consensus, with which everyone can agree.
Have a teacher for each religion, and move them around from school to school to teach. Who better to explain islam but a muslim? Who better to explain atheism than an atheist?
Or have a set of 2: a hindu with a christian. So they can "control" each other. There's a system to be found.
Yes, that Adware quote is on page 2 of the article. People here don't seem to have read it, as it throws a different light on the subject.
After page 1, I thought: What? Nobody will want that! After page 2, I still don't want it, but I can see the common man move over.
Actually, if MSFT doesn't make this OS, GOOG will make it. It's going to come, and thousands or even millions of "common people" will use it. Newspapers and magazine will praise it as the next big thing.
I know something about accessibility, and I can tell you one thing: as long as you are able to see/hear/move, you can't really test for accessibility (except for automated tests a la Bobby).
I've seen a guy with moving disabilities having huge problems with websites that look pretty standard to me -and he was able to see!- because he used a joystick and rude motions, and had to aim for that one link for 3 minutes before he got his cursor right. Yes it's possible, but he tabs with a huge tab key and that's really fast for him.
Same with blind people. Do you have any idea how a braille-rule works? People using it are pretty able to browse with it, but it does away with anything extra: what rests is a long string of text. This is something a regular developer can never imagin.
The deaf have it easier, they are able to browse properly. Up to today, sound is not important on the internet, even annoying at times. How many people browse the internet with their sound turned off?
And then we aren't talking about changing the user interface without going to a new page! That is a necessity for a disabled to properly being able to browse a site. So if accessibility is important to you: dustBin.throwIn(ajax).
GDP (PPP) per capita is still lead by European countries. Wait, if you look at that list, the first is Luxemburg and the second Norway. Both are countries with low numbers of citizens. Half the European finance and holdings sector is based in Luxemburg because of their low taxes. Why do you think Arcelor is in Luxemburg? Norway is the world's third oil exporter. It is save to say these 2 countries do not represent an average European country. Whether or not they really belong above the USA in the list is at least debateable.
Can we agree to at least give these devices some body?
I keep seeing tiny or card-thin devices pop up, but can we agree that you need to be able to get a good grip on them, as opposed to that damn thing disappearing in you hand?
Happens daily. I know a few girls who find at least one fake account each month, featuring numerous pictures of themselves. I'm thinking of people like josienutter, triplesix and DJ Pixi.
I don't understand the stir this is creating. When I was a little kid (1980-1985) I had at least 2 of those diseases (I am sure I had measles and mumps), and possibly rubella. All the kids had them.
They are childrens diseases, because you are supposed to get them when you're a child.
The problem is, everyone I talk about how good OOo is keeps looking at me with a "yeah, but it surely won't be compatible with MS Office". Even after I gave them a text or spreadsheet. "Try it!" makes them say: "Such a big download! Install it on my PC?". But they install small crap every day.
Same thing with The Gimp: I see people use illegal copies of Photoshop, or -even worse- buy that thing, while they never use any of the special features that The Gimp doesn't have. But again: "Yeah, but PS has more functionality, right? Oh, and that interface." is what they think.
Repeat with PostGeSQL, Linux (all flavors: "yeah, but I won't compatible with Windows?"),...
I don't care about it all. I use the Classic interface in WinXP, with the Eggplant theme. It's the same desktop I've had since Win95 first came out. And I waited with XP until 2 years ago, when I got a new DELL Precision.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashbeta needs to be remade to have THE Slashdot UI.
"... Could not find host ..."
So, no, Windows XP can't resolve the binary address.
You may be surprised that some of the biggest and most profitable companies do have such a policy.
Every penny is looked at, and turned around before it is spend. People have become billionaires using these tactics. My preferred sample is a Dutch guy who started a company in a small room, and later sold it for billions. All through that time, employees were seated in hallways because there weren't enough offices, so he could save a little on rent!
It avoids discussions ... What one calls good wiring, another (see a higher comment by an AC) calls bad wiring.
So, one picture should be enough.
You see, I agree with you in general.
I see 2 uses for Amazon Unbox:
a. Things that are not available on DVD (such as Jem & The Holograms)
b. If you want to test a series before you buy the DVD box.
I worked for a company that had no hierarchy: of the 4 managers we had, the CEO got fired, the Sales and marketing manager left to join another company and the customer service manager also joined another company. What we were left with was the development manager (it was a software company) who really had a company in a distant country, and came by once every couple months to see whether everyone was happy. Did it work? Yes, because that CEO had made the company a smooth running machine. It ran without him as well. (Albeit he did the accounting, so now that was outsourced)
Democracy is (as has been said here before) a system in which "a majority" take away rights from minorities. It may seem a good idea: every person gets a vote, and the most votes wins. But it works by exclusion of the ones that voted against.
A good system works with a truely good leader, who listens and takes the best decision for everyone. Therefor, it is best if that leader is not influenced himself by the decisions. The best decision may be the one with the least supporters! In absense of such a leader, the system should always strife to have a consensus, with which everyone can agree.
Wait, why have 1 teacher do them all?
Have a teacher for each religion, and move them around from school to school to teach. Who better to explain islam but a muslim? Who better to explain atheism than an atheist?
Or have a set of 2: a hindu with a christian. So they can "control" each other. There's a system to be found.
Yes, that Adware quote is on page 2 of the article. People here don't seem to have read it, as it throws a different light on the subject.
After page 1, I thought: What? Nobody will want that!
After page 2, I still don't want it, but I can see the common man move over.
Actually, if MSFT doesn't make this OS, GOOG will make it. It's going to come, and thousands or even millions of "common people" will use it. Newspapers and magazine will praise it as the next big thing.
I know something about accessibility, and I can tell you one thing: as long as you are able to see/hear/move, you can't really test for accessibility (except for automated tests a la Bobby).
I've seen a guy with moving disabilities having huge problems with websites that look pretty standard to me -and he was able to see!- because he used a joystick and rude motions, and had to aim for that one link for 3 minutes before he got his cursor right. Yes it's possible, but he tabs with a huge tab key and that's really fast for him.
Same with blind people. Do you have any idea how a braille-rule works? People using it are pretty able to browse with it, but it does away with anything extra: what rests is a long string of text. This is something a regular developer can never imagin.
The deaf have it easier, they are able to browse properly. Up to today, sound is not important on the internet, even annoying at times. How many people browse the internet with their sound turned off?
And then we aren't talking about changing the user interface without going to a new page! That is a necessity for a disabled to properly being able to browse a site. So if accessibility is important to you: dustBin.throwIn(ajax).
GDP (PPP) per capita is still lead by European countries.
Wait, if you look at that list, the first is Luxemburg and the second Norway. Both are countries with low numbers of citizens. Half the European finance and holdings sector is based in Luxemburg because of their low taxes. Why do you think Arcelor is in Luxemburg? Norway is the world's third oil exporter. It is save to say these 2 countries do not represent an average European country. Whether or not they really belong above the USA in the list is at least debateable.
The CCC did that, because they didn't want to make human victims ... yet two guys did get killed.
We're in an Attack of The Clones now ...
Can we agree to at least give these devices some body?
I keep seeing tiny or card-thin devices pop up, but can we agree that you need to be able to get a good grip on them, as opposed to that damn thing disappearing in you hand?
Happens daily. I know a few girls who find at least one fake account each month, featuring numerous pictures of themselves. I'm thinking of people like josienutter, triplesix and DJ Pixi.
Oops ... fixed link: http://clusty.com.
Clusters and Wikipedia ... Surely you mean clusty.com right?
So Atlantis had to have been build by aliens ? Even cooler!
That gets me wondering how the Greek knew about it though.
So, that guy claiming Atlantis is in the North Sea may be right after all?
Yes! That's the movie we want to see, with the nucular pronounciation.
I just can't understand how that other video does not include that part. What's up with that?
I don't understand the stir this is creating. When I was a little kid (1980-1985) I had at least 2 of those diseases (I am sure I had measles and mumps), and possibly rubella. All the kids had them.
They are childrens diseases, because you are supposed to get them when you're a child.
TFA sure is a crazy implementation of paging!
You don't see any ads if you have a paid or permanent account. As I have a permanent account ...
You do good work man! I love OOo!
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The problem is, everyone I talk about how good OOo is keeps looking at me with a "yeah, but it surely won't be compatible with MS Office". Even after I gave them a text or spreadsheet. "Try it!" makes them say: "Such a big download! Install it on my PC?". But they install small crap every day.
Same thing with The Gimp: I see people use illegal copies of Photoshop, or -even worse- buy that thing, while they never use any of the special features that The Gimp doesn't have. But again: "Yeah, but PS has more functionality, right? Oh, and that interface." is what they think.
Repeat with PostGeSQL, Linux (all flavors: "yeah, but I won't compatible with Windows?"),
Oh, well.
I remember it was in Win95. Do you have a accessibilities menu somewhere? Look there.
I don't care about it all. I use the Classic interface in WinXP, with the Eggplant theme. It's the same desktop I've had since Win95 first came out. And I waited with XP until 2 years ago, when I got a new DELL Precision.