We have Office, IE, and Visual Studio installed on all of our boxes. It's not a problem for us. Your company must have some "special" employees working there!
All Apple products are banned from our business network and have been for years. All of their software (iTunes, Quicktime) causes so many various problems in any version of Windows, that we decided to just ban all of it.
There's simply no reason for them to address the issue. What have they got to gain? Nobody seems to really care, except for this one, very self-involved person. It's cheaper and easier to just tell her to go away. This line from her blog tells me all I need to know: "We all deserve the right to crowdfund no matter what our circumstances happen to be."
In our company, IT spending is actually dropping, even as we expand. The cost of used hardware is insanely low because of all of the individuals and companies who still feel the need to buy "new" equipment so rapidly. We have no problems running Pentium 4's and Windows XP throughout our business, and wil do so for the foreseeable future.. We've moved our email/backup/web hosting services out to providers, and all of that is sill insanely cheap. Tech has actually exceeded our needs, so our IT spending has dropped significantly. Keep buying new machines every few years, people! We're loving buying your completely functional equipment at yard sale prices!
As somebody who might have the same attitude and might be doing the same thing, I'm curious: how do you store DVD movies? If I were to do such a thing, I'd rip them, and store them as the standard VIDEO_TS files so that one could re-burn a physical DVD at any time, but each movie would get broken into 3-4 files which makes streaming viewing a bit annoying because you'd have to "play" each file individually.
There's also the people who want to spend their money locally, but that's a tiny, tiny market. Most people don't give a shit where they buy stuff, so they just buy it where it's the cheapest.
Of course, this is a glaring example of the failure of public companies: a lack of ethics. The root of all of our current economic and political problems is that public corporations have one interest: to make money in any way possible. There's no accountability in a public company, so running a public company ethically is out of the question. Of course, private companies can be run unethically as well, but there are a much smaller percentage of cutthroat, skating-on-the-edge-of-legal private companies, because in the case of private companies, there are repercussions to acting unethically or illegally.
Because instead of customers paying $25/month for only the stuff they want, they now have to pay $100/month for lots of crap they don't want. Revenue for the cable companies would drop by a large percentage over night if they did this.
That being said, I really don't understand why people would still subscribe to cable TV at all, with all of the alternatives available today. I haven't had a cable TV subscription for about 15 years, yet I still watch all of the "TV" programming that I want.
It IS possible to run a company and keep it private and operate it ethically. Just because most business owners are money grubbing assholes doesn't mean that they all are.
At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury.
I'm shocked at how physically inept modern people are becoming. The gnashing of teeth over ounces when it comes to gadgets is truly shocking to me. How does one become so incapacitated that an ounce or two is really worth mentioning?
Oh, puh-lease with the "free data" thing. Ever closed source application I've ever used has import/export features. I've never not been able to get to data under any circumstances. This idea that data is inaccessible outside of a proprietary app is a straw man argument.
I said it in the first article today about "OMG, cash sucks!", and I'll say it again. EVERY TIME YOU USE PLASTIC, YOU ARE PAYING ABOUT 3% TO BANKS.
When will these anti-cash nuts get this through their heads? You really want to give Bank of America and First Data and PNC 3% of our GDP?
Over my dead fucking body. I see how much plastic money costs, because I pay it out of my pocket every month. I use cash for everything I possibly can.
Not true. I can write an app using Visual Studio 6.0 (14 years old), and be pretty darned confident that there's enough backwards compatibility written into the core dll's that I can use my app easily on any Windows OS made in the past 20 years.
Forget the tin foil hat government paranoia. The HUGE problem that most people overlook is that you're handing 3% of all retail sales to Visa/MC. The problem is that this is out of sight and out of mind for 99% of the population that doesn't have a merchant account, and that people don't think that every time they use a card, Visa/MC is getting 2-3%. That's an absurd amount of a country's GNP to pay into one organization for what boils down to a convenience.
Granted, overall it's superior, but fake hands can do different individual things better, too. A prosthetic hand could easily be stronger than a real hand, for example. I don't know if anybody has worked on this, but I'm sure it's possible to do so. A prosthetic hand could also have more movement options. It could spin, for example, or the fingers could go all of the way back.
I think that under certain conditions, for certain people, a prosthetic limb could be better than a real one.
You don't hear brick and mortar businesses arguing for repealing sales taxes because most people know that's never going to happen. They are necessary.
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Not paying sales tax "helps the economy"? What economy? The economy of Amazon.com? It sure as shit doesn't help your local economy.
Like the subject says: good! Hopefully, more states will continue to do the same. I'm really tired of seeing of people gleefully dodging sales tax.
Great title! And here I thought you guys had thrown out all of your fun-ness after the big corporate buyout!
We have Office, IE, and Visual Studio installed on all of our boxes. It's not a problem for us. Your company must have some "special" employees working there!
All Apple products are banned from our business network and have been for years. All of their software (iTunes, Quicktime) causes so many various problems in any version of Windows, that we decided to just ban all of it.
There's simply no reason for them to address the issue. What have they got to gain? Nobody seems to really care, except for this one, very self-involved person. It's cheaper and easier to just tell her to go away. This line from her blog tells me all I need to know: "We all deserve the right to crowdfund no matter what our circumstances happen to be."
In our company, IT spending is actually dropping, even as we expand. The cost of used hardware is insanely low because of all of the individuals and companies who still feel the need to buy "new" equipment so rapidly. We have no problems running Pentium 4's and Windows XP throughout our business, and wil do so for the foreseeable future.. We've moved our email/backup/web hosting services out to providers, and all of that is sill insanely cheap. Tech has actually exceeded our needs, so our IT spending has dropped significantly. Keep buying new machines every few years, people! We're loving buying your completely functional equipment at yard sale prices!
As somebody who might have the same attitude and might be doing the same thing, I'm curious: how do you store DVD movies? If I were to do such a thing, I'd rip them, and store them as the standard VIDEO_TS files so that one could re-burn a physical DVD at any time, but each movie would get broken into 3-4 files which makes streaming viewing a bit annoying because you'd have to "play" each file individually.
There's also the people who want to spend their money locally, but that's a tiny, tiny market. Most people don't give a shit where they buy stuff, so they just buy it where it's the cheapest.
What is a "discount-boutique" experience? That doesn't make any sense. A retailer can be one or the other, but not both.
Of course, this is a glaring example of the failure of public companies: a lack of ethics. The root of all of our current economic and political problems is that public corporations have one interest: to make money in any way possible. There's no accountability in a public company, so running a public company ethically is out of the question. Of course, private companies can be run unethically as well, but there are a much smaller percentage of cutthroat, skating-on-the-edge-of-legal private companies, because in the case of private companies, there are repercussions to acting unethically or illegally.
Because instead of customers paying $25/month for only the stuff they want, they now have to pay $100/month for lots of crap they don't want. Revenue for the cable companies would drop by a large percentage over night if they did this.
That being said, I really don't understand why people would still subscribe to cable TV at all, with all of the alternatives available today. I haven't had a cable TV subscription for about 15 years, yet I still watch all of the "TV" programming that I want.
We just pay for hosted Exchange. It ain't the cheapest, but we have exactly 0 problems.
How are the "horribly ecologically destructive"? Because a few birds run into them?
And it can't be an "energy net-loss" unless they take a massive amount of maintenance.
It IS possible to run a company and keep it private and operate it ethically. Just because most business owners are money grubbing assholes doesn't mean that they all are.
That's called "marketing". Why a weightlifter would care about what his/her shoes weigh is beyond me.
1/10 pound = 45.3 grams, according to Google.
At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury.
I'm shocked at how physically inept modern people are becoming. The gnashing of teeth over ounces when it comes to gadgets is truly shocking to me. How does one become so incapacitated that an ounce or two is really worth mentioning?
Oh, puh-lease with the "free data" thing. Ever closed source application I've ever used has import/export features. I've never not been able to get to data under any circumstances. This idea that data is inaccessible outside of a proprietary app is a straw man argument.
I said it in the first article today about "OMG, cash sucks!", and I'll say it again. EVERY TIME YOU USE PLASTIC, YOU ARE PAYING ABOUT 3% TO BANKS. When will these anti-cash nuts get this through their heads? You really want to give Bank of America and First Data and PNC 3% of our GDP?
Over my dead fucking body. I see how much plastic money costs, because I pay it out of my pocket every month. I use cash for everything I possibly can.
'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /path' would have done the trick for you.
... and people say Linux isn't ready for mainstream users...
"You have to do exactly the same on Windows"
Not true. I can write an app using Visual Studio 6.0 (14 years old), and be pretty darned confident that there's enough backwards compatibility written into the core dll's that I can use my app easily on any Windows OS made in the past 20 years.
Forget the tin foil hat government paranoia. The HUGE problem that most people overlook is that you're handing 3% of all retail sales to Visa/MC. The problem is that this is out of sight and out of mind for 99% of the population that doesn't have a merchant account, and that people don't think that every time they use a card, Visa/MC is getting 2-3%. That's an absurd amount of a country's GNP to pay into one organization for what boils down to a convenience.
Granted, overall it's superior, but fake hands can do different individual things better, too. A prosthetic hand could easily be stronger than a real hand, for example. I don't know if anybody has worked on this, but I'm sure it's possible to do so. A prosthetic hand could also have more movement options. It could spin, for example, or the fingers could go all of the way back.
I think that under certain conditions, for certain people, a prosthetic limb could be better than a real one.
You don't hear brick and mortar businesses arguing for repealing sales taxes because most people know that's never going to happen. They are necessary.