The biggest problem is that even in the face of absolute proof to the contrary, our medical, government, and insurance industries are absolutely convinced that the only people who have different dietary needs are Eskimos.
That's the thing about nuts. They generally don't realize that they are nuts. If they did, they would seek out help. But, if you don't think believing in zombies is nuts, there isn't much more to say.
Only ~15% of the US population claim no religion. That means that 85% believe in magic which pretty much means they are nuts. So, yes, most businesses are owned by religious nuts. The fact that you don't find some of the people who believe in zombies and alchemy 'crazy' does not make them sane. Unless you were to put some serious effort into it, and maybe not even they, you are buying things for religious nuts. It's ok though. Most of them don't bite, and many of them are quite pleasant.
You do have a hangup on the name. Other wise, you would say "whatever, who cares what it is called". We do have a conflict in the law books. That is why religious leaders are automatically allowed to perform marriages. You can try to rationalize that "all of the religious people need to just fall in line with my beliefs" is a sane and simple approach, but that doesn't make it so.
Because we have a naming conflict. A conflict that our legal system perpetuates. Your hangup on the name is no less pathetic than the religious folk hangup on the name.
That is actually the correct answer. The big problem with the whole gay marriage debate is that our governments have made the stupid mistake of mixing church and state. Give us 'civil unions' for everyone, and let church by church decide who they are going to recognize as 'married'. Give legal status to everyone who has a 'civil union', and give no legal status to the religious title of 'marriage'.
I'm not sure if that would solve the "I voted for the name I recognize". A.K.A. Whoever spends the most money on advertising, but I agree that it would be an interesting experiment, and I am not convinced it would be worse than what we have now.
The traditional example of this would be that if you don't give notice, the company will try to blackball you from working by telling anyone calling for a reference that you did not give notice. On the other hand, they have no problems firing employees at 4:50 on Friday, telling them not to come in Monday. That, or when insisting that employees give notice, they respond to that courtesy by firing the employee at the end of that day if not escorting them out immediately.
I don't know Minnesota's local laws, but if they are like California (also a at-will) state, the company has to pay extra unemployment taxes for every person that makes a unemployment claim. If the employee quits, the company doesn't have to pay those extra taxes. It is common here in California to "encourage empoloyees to quit" instead of firing them. I assume it is the same in Minnesota.
Not allowing remote workers is the new way for companies to signal that they going bankrupt and they no longer feel there is a solution to avoid it.
So have I. I've also had several pleasant conversions with drug addicts and burgers. That doesn't mean they were not dirt bags and it doesn't mean that they wouldn't screw you over the second it benefited them.
Completely 100% absolutely wrong. Microsoft owns VirtualPC. It would be trivial for MS to offer 100% backward compatibility for every version of x86 Windows they have ever released and still have a brand new OS with the only backward compatibility concern being 'Does VirtualPC work?'. Heck, when MS bought VirtualPC, it even gave full backward compatibility to machines running MacOS on PowerPC chips.
"Backward Compatibility" is a red herring used to make excuses for Microsoft.
I don't know about putting themselves out of business every 6 months. I buy brother because for the last 10+ years, every brother printer I have purchased has been cheaper than other brands with less expensive toner and they last about the same amount of time if not a little longer. Plus, every single one I have ever owned has worked out of the box with Windows, OSX and Linux.
Other than some minor tweaks, the most recent model I bought is identical to the model I had before it.
There certainly are people who need more processing power. Those people are a niche though. 99.99% of the people fit into CastrTroy's sterotype. He should have more accurately said "PCs have long ago reached the point where they were fast enough". As he noted, servers and workstations still need the speed.
That is why the two major parties are so hip on it. The people who don't know the issues will vote for who they hear the most. By getting people to vote who wouldn't normally both, the status quo of whoever spends the most money wins gets perpetuated.
Exactly the opposite. There is no way that a sane person could think that spending more time, more effort and more money to put specifically put the books back on the producer's doorstep is anything other than someone trying to send a message. A.K.A Speech.
It is well established that "for personal use" is not a valid exemption to copyright. And it is also well established that having standard elements or not knowing the identity of the original author are also not valid exemptions to copyright.
You are a good example of the copyright hypocrite. The guy that claims everyone else's copyright violations are unacceptable, but his are OK. Of course people don't see anything wrong with copyright infringement, since they have never met anyone over the age of 5 that doesn't commit it. That includes the people who preach how evil it is.
In the end, choosing between a large format or small format tablet will be a little like choosing between owning shorts or long pants. The answer is to have both. Likely even several of each. I still think the 10"/9.7" is the wrong size for the large format. Large format should be either Letter or A4 size.
I think he was wrong on the size from both directions. For a portable unit, 7" is better than 9.7". For a unit that you use in the house/office where it resides on a coffee table/desk, the right size is either 8.5x11 in or 297 x 210 mm. 9.7 is both too small and too large. To be fair, the 10" Android tablets are also too large and too small.
Don't stop at copyright infringement "on a computer". Tell us how you don't commit copyright infringement at all. How you refuse to sing happy birthday in a my public place like restaurants. How you never tell a joke that you heard someone else say... That sort of thing.
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The biggest problem is that even in the face of absolute proof to the contrary, our medical, government, and insurance industries are absolutely convinced that the only people who have different dietary needs are Eskimos.
That's the thing about nuts. They generally don't realize that they are nuts. If they did, they would seek out help. But, if you don't think believing in zombies is nuts, there isn't much more to say.
And this guy doesn't think there is anything nuts about it.
Only ~15% of the US population claim no religion. That means that 85% believe in magic which pretty much means they are nuts. So, yes, most businesses are owned by religious nuts. The fact that you don't find some of the people who believe in zombies and alchemy 'crazy' does not make them sane. Unless you were to put some serious effort into it, and maybe not even they, you are buying things for religious nuts. It's ok though. Most of them don't bite, and many of them are quite pleasant.
You do have a hangup on the name. Other wise, you would say "whatever, who cares what it is called". We do have a conflict in the law books. That is why religious leaders are automatically allowed to perform marriages. You can try to rationalize that "all of the religious people need to just fall in line with my beliefs" is a sane and simple approach, but that doesn't make it so.
Not according to every pole done in the US.
So what resources do you use to find that small percentage of businesses not owned by religious nuts?
Because we have a naming conflict. A conflict that our legal system perpetuates. Your hangup on the name is no less pathetic than the religious folk hangup on the name.
So, you happily buy from religious nuts all the time. Check.
From this day forward, nobody is legally married.
That is actually the correct answer. The big problem with the whole gay marriage debate is that our governments have made the stupid mistake of mixing church and state. Give us 'civil unions' for everyone, and let church by church decide who they are going to recognize as 'married'. Give legal status to everyone who has a 'civil union', and give no legal status to the religious title of 'marriage'.
Life must be hard if you don't buy anything from religious nuts. They are a significant majority of the population after all.
Or hanging out in public bathrooms?
I'm not sure if that would solve the "I voted for the name I recognize". A.K.A. Whoever spends the most money on advertising, but I agree that it would be an interesting experiment, and I am not convinced it would be worse than what we have now.
The traditional example of this would be that if you don't give notice, the company will try to blackball you from working by telling anyone calling for a reference that you did not give notice. On the other hand, they have no problems firing employees at 4:50 on Friday, telling them not to come in Monday. That, or when insisting that employees give notice, they respond to that courtesy by firing the employee at the end of that day if not escorting them out immediately.
I don't know Minnesota's local laws, but if they are like California (also a at-will) state, the company has to pay extra unemployment taxes for every person that makes a unemployment claim. If the employee quits, the company doesn't have to pay those extra taxes. It is common here in California to "encourage empoloyees to quit" instead of firing them. I assume it is the same in Minnesota.
Not allowing remote workers is the new way for companies to signal that they going bankrupt and they no longer feel there is a solution to avoid it.
So have I. I've also had several pleasant conversions with drug addicts and burgers. That doesn't mean they were not dirt bags and it doesn't mean that they wouldn't screw you over the second it benefited them.
Completely 100% absolutely wrong. Microsoft owns VirtualPC. It would be trivial for MS to offer 100% backward compatibility for every version of x86 Windows they have ever released and still have a brand new OS with the only backward compatibility concern being 'Does VirtualPC work?'. Heck, when MS bought VirtualPC, it even gave full backward compatibility to machines running MacOS on PowerPC chips.
"Backward Compatibility" is a red herring used to make excuses for Microsoft.
I don't know about putting themselves out of business every 6 months. I buy brother because for the last 10+ years, every brother printer I have purchased has been cheaper than other brands with less expensive toner and they last about the same amount of time if not a little longer. Plus, every single one I have ever owned has worked out of the box with Windows, OSX and Linux.
Other than some minor tweaks, the most recent model I bought is identical to the model I had before it.
There certainly are people who need more processing power. Those people are a niche though. 99.99% of the people fit into CastrTroy's sterotype. He should have more accurately said "PCs have long ago reached the point where they were fast enough". As he noted, servers and workstations still need the speed.
That is why the two major parties are so hip on it. The people who don't know the issues will vote for who they hear the most. By getting people to vote who wouldn't normally both, the status quo of whoever spends the most money wins gets perpetuated.
Exactly the opposite. There is no way that a sane person could think that spending more time, more effort and more money to put specifically put the books back on the producer's doorstep is anything other than someone trying to send a message. A.K.A Speech.
It is well established that "for personal use" is not a valid exemption to copyright. And it is also well established that having standard elements or not knowing the identity of the original author are also not valid exemptions to copyright.
You are a good example of the copyright hypocrite. The guy that claims everyone else's copyright violations are unacceptable, but his are OK. Of course people don't see anything wrong with copyright infringement, since they have never met anyone over the age of 5 that doesn't commit it. That includes the people who preach how evil it is.
In the end, choosing between a large format or small format tablet will be a little like choosing between owning shorts or long pants. The answer is to have both. Likely even several of each. I still think the 10"/9.7" is the wrong size for the large format. Large format should be either Letter or A4 size.
I think he was wrong on the size from both directions. For a portable unit, 7" is better than 9.7". For a unit that you use in the house/office where it resides on a coffee table/desk, the right size is either 8.5x11 in or 297 x 210 mm. 9.7 is both too small and too large. To be fair, the 10" Android tablets are also too large and too small.
Don't stop at copyright infringement "on a computer". Tell us how you don't commit copyright infringement at all. How you refuse to sing happy birthday in a my public place like restaurants. How you never tell a joke that you heard someone else say... That sort of thing.