With all of the passwords and other data they've taken without permission (regardless of whether you think it's okay), what do you think they'll do if you use an internet connection provided by them, and agree to their terms of service that they can change at any time?
I bet you could get a patent on a combination of a blog post and a one-line status. I bet it would work too. A tweet that you can click on and turn into a full blog post. Surely it's no different from clicking on the summary of an RSS feed, but the patent office won't know that.
Not only that, but they charge you an extra "4G" fee. You are required to pay for the 4G service on top of the 3G service in order to activate the phone.
Excellent work on your part. You installed your preferred software on someone else's machine without giving any consideration to the experience of the person who will be using it. Often times, when two competing products are both viable solutions, one is chosen simply because the user is already familiar with it. This can lead to a significant improvement in productivity by reducing or eliminating the learning period, which, in the end, can save far more than the cost of the software.
But you can continue to pat *yourself* on the back for being self-centered over a lousy $140.
I assure you, I do not prefer OpenOffice. I was dealing with a nonprofit organization that had a severe debt and had lost all recovery and installation discs on computers that had corrupted software and apparently computer viruses.
Because of the cost, Microsoft Office was not a viable solution. It only became one after the woman threw a fit and somebody just bought it for them.
What really happened is a guy, who should have known better, installed an unfamiliar application onto someone elses computer, offered no training or guidance during the transition, and then proceeded to tell the decision maker of the institution why he should be grateful.
It's a girl, not a guy. And you're also wrong about me offering no training. I was there to answer every question. And when they told me they didn't know how to do something, I came there and showed them how to do it. The other two people who used the computer were able to handle this. Just not the main one.
If my boss says to me "We want Office 2010" I will obviously mention LibreOffice, maybe even offer to install it side by side with a trial of Office 2010 so they can be better informed of the options and make better decisions.
The boss didn't say they want office 2010. The crazy woman did. What the boss said was they had no budget for technology and lost all installation discs that came with the computers. Computers they were still making payments on. Systems with corrupt software that appeared to be virus-infected.
I'm no open source fanatic. I was trying to offer them an alternative to what they wanted that was within their means.
We were told we can't get HD channels without the cable box. They're all digital. So even though I can pick up local channels in HD without cable, I can't get them with basic cable. I have to pay extra for a box and the "digital package".
My friend was telling me he couldn't enjoy DVD anymore since he had seen the beauty of HD. So he had to buy all of his movies over again in Blu-Ray. I did my best to avoid HDTV and Blu-Ray so I wouldn't fall into that trap. Then the United States government forced me to upgrade.
I installed OpenOffice at a church. The large chemically unbalanced woman, who was in charge of the computer, threw some kind of fit about how it was different from Microsoft Office. The head of the church gave me a talk about how we were getting something free instead of getting what was best. I went on about how there were things Microsoft Office did that OpenOffice didn't, but no one in the church was using Microsoft Office for those things, or even aware of those things. That didn't help. Finally, one of the trustees was also a high level employee at a local enterprise. He used his company discount to get them a new copy of Microsoft Office for $140 and gave me a talk about how much money they saved. They all gave themselves a great big pat on the back.
I don't think Opera's problem is the lack of extensions. I think it's problem is websites that don't support it and, in some cases, specifically check for Opera so they can say the site is not compatible even if Opera could render the pages properly.
I installed the latest version of VLC through RPM fusion. I also downloaded and installed Opera through an RPM file available on their website. Do you think the system updater is going to update this software? Do you think if Photoshop were available for Linux that the system update would also update Photoshop?
I think 1 through 4 are reasons a lot of people prefer Windows and are more productive with Windows than Linux. I disagree with number 5, as there are critical Linux apps (such as the help system) that don't even have a GUI. And number 6 applies to Windows and Linux equally.
Or maybe because class action would cause each of those people to get $1.30 USD instead of paying for their medical bills, and also remove their right to sue individually.
I have a friend who is into "androgynous men". She says in the 70's and 80's, in the United States they were considered sex symbols and not the least bit homosexual. I also recall a skit on the Chappelle show in which Charlie Murphy says [back then, the men who looked the most like bitches got the most bitches].
So maybe it's not just Japan.
Maybe the problem isn't that the lawyer got so much. Maybe the problem is the students didn't get enough. Given how devastating a lack of money is in this world, if the amount all of the students got put together is not enough to pay for their defense then it makes more sense to give up your rights and be a victim.
So if they're this close to releasing an Android version, how come they were never able to finish a version of Mozilla that runs in a Java virtual machine?
I haven't gotten Windows 7 yet, even though it was my idea. But in Windows Vista, I suspect the problem is the system refuses to let anything power down, except maybe the monitor. There is always something accessing the hard drive so the drives never actually stop spinning, even if it's a USB drive with no files accessed by me. Windows just randomly writes useless files to every attached hard drive. When I had a failing drive, Windows would display popup messages telling me about files that may have been lost, leaving me wondering why it was writing that file to an external drive. And there are so many background processes, the processor is probably working when it should be just idle. It seems impossible to get 0% CPU usage with no drives spinning, even if the computer sits idle.
I'd imagine Linux is better in that regard. But lately I only use Fedora and, so far, there hasn't been a version that truly powers down my screen. It just blanks the screen but the backlight stays on. I don't know if it can power down the hard drives or not but at least when I unmount, it just unmounts. I don't get any stupid message saying [the drive is busy, even though you haven't accessed any files] like I do in Windows.
Where I work at, Google is the default search engine for the intranet. I think that qualifies as forcing us to use it. And no normal people know how to change the default search engine in anything other than the Microsoft web browser. I think that qualifies as people not knowing there are alternatives.
For bonus points, my friend didn't realize any time he added a phone number to his android phone, the phone was storing his entire address book in his Google account, and Google now has all of our names, phone numbers, and a rather compromising picture of me forever.
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With all of the passwords and other data they've taken without permission (regardless of whether you think it's okay), what do you think they'll do if you use an internet connection provided by them, and agree to their terms of service that they can change at any time?
I bet you could get a patent on a combination of a blog post and a one-line status. I bet it would work too. A tweet that you can click on and turn into a full blog post. Surely it's no different from clicking on the summary of an RSS feed, but the patent office won't know that.
Not only that, but they charge you an extra "4G" fee. You are required to pay for the 4G service on top of the 3G service in order to activate the phone.
I suspect it's not just the hugely successful ones that complain; just that they are the only ones you can hear complaining.
Excellent work on your part. You installed your preferred software on someone else's machine without giving any consideration to the experience of the person who will be using it. Often times, when two competing products are both viable solutions, one is chosen simply because the user is already familiar with it. This can lead to a significant improvement in productivity by reducing or eliminating the learning period, which, in the end, can save far more than the cost of the software.
But you can continue to pat *yourself* on the back for being self-centered over a lousy $140.
I assure you, I do not prefer OpenOffice. I was dealing with a nonprofit organization that had a severe debt and had lost all recovery and installation discs on computers that had corrupted software and apparently computer viruses.
Because of the cost, Microsoft Office was not a viable solution. It only became one after the woman threw a fit and somebody just bought it for them.
What really happened is a guy, who should have known better, installed an unfamiliar application onto someone elses computer, offered no training or guidance during the transition, and then proceeded to tell the decision maker of the institution why he should be grateful.
It's a girl, not a guy. And you're also wrong about me offering no training. I was there to answer every question. And when they told me they didn't know how to do something, I came there and showed them how to do it. The other two people who used the computer were able to handle this. Just not the main one.
If my boss says to me "We want Office 2010" I will obviously mention LibreOffice, maybe even offer to install it side by side with a trial of Office 2010 so they can be better informed of the options and make better decisions.
The boss didn't say they want office 2010. The crazy woman did. What the boss said was they had no budget for technology and lost all installation discs that came with the computers. Computers they were still making payments on. Systems with corrupt software that appeared to be virus-infected.
I'm no open source fanatic. I was trying to offer them an alternative to what they wanted that was within their means.
We were told we can't get HD channels without the cable box. They're all digital. So even though I can pick up local channels in HD without cable, I can't get them with basic cable. I have to pay extra for a box and the "digital package".
My friend was telling me he couldn't enjoy DVD anymore since he had seen the beauty of HD. So he had to buy all of his movies over again in Blu-Ray. I did my best to avoid HDTV and Blu-Ray so I wouldn't fall into that trap. Then the United States government forced me to upgrade.
I installed OpenOffice at a church. The large chemically unbalanced woman, who was in charge of the computer, threw some kind of fit about how it was different from Microsoft Office. The head of the church gave me a talk about how we were getting something free instead of getting what was best. I went on about how there were things Microsoft Office did that OpenOffice didn't, but no one in the church was using Microsoft Office for those things, or even aware of those things. That didn't help. Finally, one of the trustees was also a high level employee at a local enterprise. He used his company discount to get them a new copy of Microsoft Office for $140 and gave me a talk about how much money they saved. They all gave themselves a great big pat on the back.
I don't think Opera's problem is the lack of extensions. I think it's problem is websites that don't support it and, in some cases, specifically check for Opera so they can say the site is not compatible even if Opera could render the pages properly.
I installed the latest version of VLC through RPM fusion. I also downloaded and installed Opera through an RPM file available on their website. Do you think the system updater is going to update this software? Do you think if Photoshop were available for Linux that the system update would also update Photoshop?
I think 1 through 4 are reasons a lot of people prefer Windows and are more productive with Windows than Linux. I disagree with number 5, as there are critical Linux apps (such as the help system) that don't even have a GUI. And number 6 applies to Windows and Linux equally.
It also doesn't hurt that they could make a deal with the NFL so their competition can't even make a game.
Or maybe because class action would cause each of those people to get $1.30 USD instead of paying for their medical bills, and also remove their right to sue individually.
I have a friend who is into "androgynous men". She says in the 70's and 80's, in the United States they were considered sex symbols and not the least bit homosexual. I also recall a skit on the Chappelle show in which Charlie Murphy says [back then, the men who looked the most like bitches got the most bitches]. So maybe it's not just Japan.
How about just getting rid of class action?
It wouldn't be much worse though.
Maybe the problem isn't that the lawyer got so much. Maybe the problem is the students didn't get enough. Given how devastating a lack of money is in this world, if the amount all of the students got put together is not enough to pay for their defense then it makes more sense to give up your rights and be a victim.
So if they're this close to releasing an Android version, how come they were never able to finish a version of Mozilla that runs in a Java virtual machine?
Not only would they be Windows only, but suddenly Dreamweaver would produce webpages that only work with Internet Explorer.
I haven't gotten Windows 7 yet, even though it was my idea. But in Windows Vista, I suspect the problem is the system refuses to let anything power down, except maybe the monitor. There is always something accessing the hard drive so the drives never actually stop spinning, even if it's a USB drive with no files accessed by me. Windows just randomly writes useless files to every attached hard drive. When I had a failing drive, Windows would display popup messages telling me about files that may have been lost, leaving me wondering why it was writing that file to an external drive. And there are so many background processes, the processor is probably working when it should be just idle. It seems impossible to get 0% CPU usage with no drives spinning, even if the computer sits idle.
I'd imagine Linux is better in that regard. But lately I only use Fedora and, so far, there hasn't been a version that truly powers down my screen. It just blanks the screen but the backlight stays on. I don't know if it can power down the hard drives or not but at least when I unmount, it just unmounts. I don't get any stupid message saying [the drive is busy, even though you haven't accessed any files] like I do in Windows.
That was my idea.
Where I work at, Google is the default search engine for the intranet. I think that qualifies as forcing us to use it. And no normal people know how to change the default search engine in anything other than the Microsoft web browser. I think that qualifies as people not knowing there are alternatives.
For bonus points, my friend didn't realize any time he added a phone number to his android phone, the phone was storing his entire address book in his Google account, and Google now has all of our names, phone numbers, and a rather compromising picture of me forever.
I'd love to see MS acknowledge that a majority of the people who use IE are either forced or don't even know there are alternatives.
I'd love to see Google acknowledge the same thing.
The current one is an LG Lotus. The previous one that did this was another LG phone but I don't remember the name.