That depends. If Boeing executives started using their jet for every trip they make, even to the corner store, then something would be wrong. And this is what we see, Microsoft forcing something over the top, when HTML/CSS works perfectly well for them.
This is a moronic statement. Why would they continue selling cigerattes if every packet was a loss for them - this statement simply makes no sense at all. If they make money from the food holdings, then why not stop selling cigarettes, or sell of the brand, and keep with the food.
This sort of mindless rant doesn't help anyone. You do realise that taxes are a percentage of the cost of cigarettes??
1) The iPhone delivered only to the US and using GSM 2G - and people are hyping it? I'm looking around New Zealand; at the bottom of the world, sitting at the crevice of the ass crack when it comes to technology availability, and yet, I'm seeing far superior smart phones being delivered, CDMA and 3G GSM.
Some people will never get it. What is the advantage os 3G??? Oh, it is a little faster - that is the only difference that most people will see. I have a 3G phone, it still gets out of range, it is still not lightning fast, and sooner or later they will bring out 4G, which according to people like you will be completely different and bring a whole new era, when in fact it is only, once again, slightly faster. Whereas the iphone has a brilliant new way of managing all your tasks, new input methods, great ease of use, good integrated apps like google maps, that come up with one button, rather than trying to run a java appplet... you will never understand.
bring outsiders with no experience onto teams to keep creativity and innovation on track.
We have loads of outsiders with absolutely no experience or knowledge of the product at all... we call them managers. The fact that the DVD has so many buttons is more a reflection on the consumer..they want more buttons. Somehow buttons is associated with sophistication to the majority. If there are two DVD players, and one has more buttons on the remote, they will go for that one. Personally, I would be so happy if they had a DVD with no remote... you put in the DVD, and it started playing the movie. There could even be a button on the machine to pause it (since you are most probably getting up when you want to pause it anyway).
No disrespect to the Italians, but they have a very similar culture, have has since Roman times. It is in there culture. Not to be racist, certainly not all people are like this, and you get scammers in every culture.
eBay can be fine, just have some smarts about it. If a guy has 3 feedback, and is selling a fancy new laptop, don't buy it. If he is selling anything over $2, don't buy it. Don't trust him. If a guy has 100 feedback and has been selling phone sim cards or other low priced items, then starts selling 20 new laptops, don't buy it. USE YOUR COMMON SENSE.
Really? And my magical genie in the sky doesn't like people using the word the, so I find that pretty offensive. And of course, because some moron believes it, we should thus pander to their delusions.
Personally I have had enough lies from strongly religious people, and will not sway my way for their delusions, or any other psychotic.
The main reason that I start at 8:30 and finish at 4:30. Not only do I get 30 minutes of fooling around in the morning, it get an extra 2 hours back in the afternoon.
Some people actually like the new flashy stuff. Some people at my work. These are more the "decision" types, who don't actually have to use their computer for anything important, don't really now much about them, but still feel that they have earned to right to make decisions affecting us all.
Well, you are deliberatly being obtuse. Your artist example is not the norm, and is the exception. This is some guy who probably could teach an advanced class himself. These people start using all the software on their home machines out of interest, just as a lot of us programmed before we were taught it at school, rather than relying on the school. News flash, most people aren't exceptions, not exceptional. Most people coast along, with no great interest in anything marketable to a company.
While it maybe fun to work the course around the one person like this if you are lucky, it is not helpful to anyone else in the class.
One of the reasons I keep my son locked in the basement until he can learn to program 6510 chip. Maybe in a couple of years I will let him on to the 386 (come on, I am not heartless, no 286 for him).
Nobody really wants any HD format, there was no general rumbling about DVD, unless you count the manufacturers. When China start producing DVD players for $20, it is difficult to make any money. Or at least as much money as they used to, when the format started.
OK so why is this good but the Microsoft format is bad?
Does this really need to be explained...how about the obvious reason. Why don't you look at that first, and then come back and see if there is any confusion. Fucking moron.
Yes, they should just have the don't do anything wrong rule. If you do something wrong, you get fined a variable amount, depending on the indiscretion. I don't know why this is so hard for people to get to grips with? They could extend this world to all law, not just business law. Seems simpe to me?
Stopping things like Enron is hard, what don't you understand about this? They haven't just made all these procedures for a joke, it is to make more accountability, and for problems to be seen earlier, rather than years later. Try spending some time in the real world for awhile.
Yes, the world is a complicated place. Sometimes companies that we hate can do good things. Even Microsoft produces decent mice and keyboards. And the US government funded the Internet.
As somebody who doesn't speak french, and enjoys laughing at them, I must say you didn't make the joke very well. Try to fit more funny in it next time!
You are assuming that this is based on logic. After talking to a bunch of the decision makes at my unviersity during a conference last week, you will soon discover that little of this is based on logic, or experience of computer systems of any kind. One lady actually preferred Vista because of the improved eye-candy on her laptop...yes, these are the people making decisions the world over.
There are two types of rich people. People who inherited it (the French aristocracy), who it is not necessary to be intelligent, and those who have worked hard and smart, and made the money themselves. The latter clearly has to have some reasonable level of intelligence.
Nope, that privilege is reserved for American Republicans.
Do you really think that they are stupid. They are all rich, so they are clearly not stupid. They are corrupt, and there is a big difference. They do the things they do because it makes them a lot of money.
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That depends. If Boeing executives started using their jet for every trip they make, even to the corner store, then something would be wrong. And this is what we see, Microsoft forcing something over the top, when HTML/CSS works perfectly well for them.
This is a moronic statement. Why would they continue selling cigerattes if every packet was a loss for them - this statement simply makes no sense at all. If they make money from the food holdings, then why not stop selling cigarettes, or sell of the brand, and keep with the food.
This sort of mindless rant doesn't help anyone. You do realise that taxes are a percentage of the cost of cigarettes??
1) The iPhone delivered only to the US and using GSM 2G - and people are hyping it? I'm looking around New Zealand; at the bottom of the world, sitting at the crevice of the ass crack when it comes to technology availability, and yet, I'm seeing far superior smart phones being delivered, CDMA and 3G GSM.
Some people will never get it. What is the advantage os 3G??? Oh, it is a little faster - that is the only difference that most people will see. I have a 3G phone, it still gets out of range, it is still not lightning fast, and sooner or later they will bring out 4G, which according to people like you will be completely different and bring a whole new era, when in fact it is only, once again, slightly faster. Whereas the iphone has a brilliant new way of managing all your tasks, new input methods, great ease of use, good integrated apps like google maps, that come up with one button, rather than trying to run a java appplet... you will never understand.
We have loads of outsiders with absolutely no experience or knowledge of the product at all... we call them managers. The fact that the DVD has so many buttons is more a reflection on the consumer..they want more buttons. Somehow buttons is associated with sophistication to the majority. If there are two DVD players, and one has more buttons on the remote, they will go for that one. Personally, I would be so happy if they had a DVD with no remote... you put in the DVD, and it started playing the movie. There could even be a button on the machine to pause it (since you are most probably getting up when you want to pause it anyway).
No disrespect to the Italians, but they have a very similar culture, have has since Roman times. It is in there culture. Not to be racist, certainly not all people are like this, and you get scammers in every culture.
eBay can be fine, just have some smarts about it. If a guy has 3 feedback, and is selling a fancy new laptop, don't buy it. If he is selling anything over $2, don't buy it. Don't trust him. If a guy has 100 feedback and has been selling phone sim cards or other low priced items, then starts selling 20 new laptops, don't buy it. USE YOUR COMMON SENSE.
What do you expect for christmas eve man... Beggar shouldn't be choosers, or maybe you could go get some friends and family to hang around.
Still, you are correct.
Really? And my magical genie in the sky doesn't like people using the word the, so I find that pretty offensive. And of course, because some moron believes it, we should thus pander to their delusions.
Personally I have had enough lies from strongly religious people, and will not sway my way for their delusions, or any other psychotic.
Yeah, I heard it was because they didn't like the colour of his shirt when he called them. Idiot.
The main reason that I start at 8:30 and finish at 4:30. Not only do I get 30 minutes of fooling around in the morning, it get an extra 2 hours back in the afternoon.
Apple, Sony Playstation, BluRay, Adobe Flash, Sun Office....
I wonder what "uses" you put your cat to?
Some people actually like the new flashy stuff. Some people at my work. These are more the "decision" types, who don't actually have to use their computer for anything important, don't really now much about them, but still feel that they have earned to right to make decisions affecting us all.
Well, you are deliberatly being obtuse. Your artist example is not the norm, and is the exception. This is some guy who probably could teach an advanced class himself. These people start using all the software on their home machines out of interest, just as a lot of us programmed before we were taught it at school, rather than relying on the school. News flash, most people aren't exceptions, not exceptional. Most people coast along, with no great interest in anything marketable to a company.
While it maybe fun to work the course around the one person like this if you are lucky, it is not helpful to anyone else in the class.
One of the reasons I keep my son locked in the basement until he can learn to program 6510 chip. Maybe in a couple of years I will let him on to the 386 (come on, I am not heartless, no 286 for him).
Nobody really wants any HD format, there was no general rumbling about DVD, unless you count the manufacturers. When China start producing DVD players for $20, it is difficult to make any money. Or at least as much money as they used to, when the format started.
Yes, they should just have the don't do anything wrong rule. If you do something wrong, you get fined a variable amount, depending on the indiscretion. I don't know why this is so hard for people to get to grips with? They could extend this world to all law, not just business law. Seems simpe to me?
Stopping things like Enron is hard, what don't you understand about this? They haven't just made all these procedures for a joke, it is to make more accountability, and for problems to be seen earlier, rather than years later. Try spending some time in the real world for awhile.
Yes, the world is a complicated place. Sometimes companies that we hate can do good things. Even Microsoft produces decent mice and keyboards. And the US government funded the Internet.
I can come up with one Law:
1. You shall not do anything wrong*, or you may be penalized.
*to be determined at time of offense.
As somebody who doesn't speak french, and enjoys laughing at them, I must say you didn't make the joke very well. Try to fit more funny in it next time!
You are assuming that this is based on logic. After talking to a bunch of the decision makes at my unviersity during a conference last week, you will soon discover that little of this is based on logic, or experience of computer systems of any kind. One lady actually preferred Vista because of the improved eye-candy on her laptop...yes, these are the people making decisions the world over.
There are two types of rich people. People who inherited it (the French aristocracy), who it is not necessary to be intelligent, and those who have worked hard and smart, and made the money themselves. The latter clearly has to have some reasonable level of intelligence.
Do you really think that they are stupid. They are all rich, so they are clearly not stupid. They are corrupt, and there is a big difference. They do the things they do because it makes them a lot of money.
Doesn't Microsoft Office check for updates? Surely, in this day and age, it would. Almost every other program I have seems to.