That's because you're a fucktard. I suspect concepts like zero and water being yet cause you the same degree of consternation. Here's my advice to you. Just start jamming pencils into your eyes until the feelings go away.
You realize these factories make more than iPads, right? And if China starts making itself unfriendly to a major foreign manufacturer (Apple is a BIG FUCKING COMPANY these days), they risk what amounts to the fuel of their economic engine.
My bet is that the whole thing will be squashed in very short order. The Chinese government knows what side the bread is buttered on.
I find LibreOffice docx support pretty weak. I wouldn't dream of saving anything beyond a trivial file in OOXML format in LibreOffice. I usually save either as a.doc or.odt.
My organization's was money as well. We do government contract-based employment services work. The cost of MS-Office licenses were absurdly high, and after some attempts to negotiate some lower per-seat rates I finally just threw up my hands and told our sales reps to forget it, I'd throw OpenOffice on the thirty computers in question and be done with it. It's not a completely perfect solution, and some documents, particularly resumes, with lots of formatting, can be problematic, but it's workable enough.
All our staff are running either Office 2003 or Office 2007, and I doubt we'll be upgrading. They work well enough for what we want. It's not as if Office 2010 offers anything all that spectacular, other than, of course, it will be supported longer than the older software. I suppose at some point Office 2003 at least won't install on some later version of Windows, and then we'll be forced into the difficult decision, but I doubt we'll be doing any major OS updates in the near future.
Considering the scandal in Indian telecom, which their supreme court has just now finally made its ruling on, I'm not sure how often the Indian government keeps to that premise. It is a damned corrupt country. I expect the result probably had as much to do with French envoys with brown paper bags filled with hard currency as anything else.
And if theaters stopped treating patrons like cattle to be shoved through and actually made the experience more pleasant, they'd do better as well. There are plenty of ways to make the actual physical experience sufficiently value-added that people will go.
I'm looking at a band like Rush, whose last album took a few years to hit gold status. By the old logic, not having an album or a single in the top 40, or at least the top 100, meant at best being a bit player. And yet these guys are selling out or nearly selling out every show on their last few tours. I suspect they probably don't give a crap about record sales any more, it likely makes up a pretty small percentage of their revenue. I'll wager that within a decade some of the really big acts will probably just be giving CDs away as promotion, particularly when the sale of, say, concert t-shirts and programmes outweighs what they can make.
Then that's the way it's going to be. The cannon completely wiped out feudalism by allowing the King to directly create an army capable of blowing up barons' castles around them. Utterly disruptive, completely shattered all those things built atop the delicate web of social hiearchy.
It will suck, but at the end of the day, the media industry is fighting the same kind of battle. The genie is out of the bottle, and if it means no more billion dollar movies get made, or no band can ever get as big as U2, then we'll have to live with it.
Neil Young had a pretty interesting observation recently that P2P filesharing is the new radio. His chief complaint is that the sound quality of the music is rather bad. I realize he's sitting at the tail end of his career and probably doesn't give much of a shit any more, and he's had enough battles with record companies in his time that I doubt they provoke much sympathy from him, but I think it shows that sometimes things can appear quite different depending on your perspective. If you're looking at The Pirate Bay as the evil thieves' site, then yes, you want to crush it. If you look at as the promotional site, then what you need to do is create a value added system so people will go to the theater or to the concert to see the real thing. Do that and TPB ceases to be an evil, but simply becomes a promotional channel.
The trick in the future is going to be figuring out you can get as big enough that you can live off the proceeds of touring. Top tie regional artists can usually do well enough to pay the bills, but much below that at it rapidly becomes more of a hobby than an occupation.
Let's face it, to a large extent the musical superstar is a creation of the whole record company machine. I'm dubious that you could have big acts like Frank Sinatra or Elvis or Pink Floyd without the business model that the record companies created. However, for every talented act like, say, the Rolling Stones, the model has also provided us with drek like New Kids On The Block (actually I imagine the ratio is tipped much more towards drek). But the point is that the BIG ACTS got BIG because record companies were in a position to market them. If you don't have these vast promotional machines I think you won't see any more U2s or Bon Jovis.
What I actually think is going to happen is that companies like Apple and Google are just going to create their own labels. They're savvy companies who understand the new reality far better than the RIAA folks. They have to play ball right now, but you watch, in the long run these companies and those that follow in their footsteps are just going to sidestep the current content distribution models are start doing it themselves. That will be the death of the current batch of big media companies.
Some things are worth prosecuting, some things end up doing more harm than good if you persue them. I think you might almost be smart enough to see the difference.
I don't think the analogy with 17th and 18th century piracy really fits. We're not talking about a few groups cracking DRM and selling the music. In fact, it's not like that at all. Most of the piracy, so it is called, isn't even for profit any more.
You know, I always love it when some fucking retard tries to lecture me about how Hitler came to power. The Nazis did not have a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. The reason Hitler came to power is because von Papen told Hindenburg that Hitler could be controlled, and thus convinced the ailing (and increasingly senile) President to name Hitler Chancellor. Hitler wasn't elected to that position because he did not command a majority in the Reichstag.
Maybe you need to learn something about how parliaments work, fucktard.
This claim about democracies always bothers me, because it rests on the fallacious notion that there is only one kind of democracy.
Besides, look at Israel, which has an electoral system built on all the great post-war innovations. What happened? Fringe parties end up becoming kingmakers and swinging governments in directions in many cases directly opposed to the views of the majority. Do you consider that a democracy?
Or what about many European nations, like Germany, where parties form what amount to permanent coalitions, basically super-parties that may split up during elections, but re-coalesce afterwards. How exactly is this any different than the results one might get from a FPTP election?
While I agree electoral reform is important, I find your claim idiotic, and your idea that somehow your private definition of "democracy" does in fact deliver the goods highly questionable.
In other words, a reasonably experienced admin armed with Google and a basic knowledge of LDAP, DNS and Windows configuration is better armed for working with an Active Directory environment than someone who received a Microsoft certification.
I took some of the Microsoft certification Windows 2008 server courses, and I came out of understanding how these guys with their shiny certifications can be such incredibly ignorant idiots. I was astounded. How exactly any of it resembles in any way a proper education into something as multifaceted and at times complex as building, administering and troubleshooting an Active Directory environment was beyond me.
Just like how business graduates leveraged fast talking with dick wagging! And look at those guys. They get million dollar bonuses while the companies they pilot crashland into the ground and investors feel somewhere between gang-raped and immolated.
The best way to stop bullying is to have a gallows in the middle of the school yard and hoist every single bully up. They're rotting dead corpses can be a reminder to anyone who thinks its okay to shove some poor scrawny kid into the lockers and steal his lunch money.
In other words, make bullies so fucking terrified to even blink that they either tow the line or, even better, stay home and get started on being vicious alcoholics to their families a few years ahead of schedule.
If Congress doesn't like it, they are most certainly free to create a bill that strips the government of any capacity to enact any policy based on ACTA. No need to impeach. Of course, since a goodly number of member of Congress are probably in full accord, it's little wonder they're not upset at being deprived of the right to rubberstamp this agreement.
The problem is that the sheer number of lawyers means they cease to be simply advocates but instead become the formulators. We need less lawyers, a lot less.
That they, the fans and the civic and state governments that bend to pressure from billionaire owners are, collectively, a bunch of fucking morons.
But I'm all for keeping the Superbowel safe. Can you imagine if al Qaeda did kill a few thousand people at the game? Fuck, we'd have ten years with of awful tributes to the fallen as low IQ types chanted "USA USA USA" and presidents and congressman would give speeches of how they died for freedom and football.
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That's because you're a fucktard. I suspect concepts like zero and water being yet cause you the same degree of consternation. Here's my advice to you. Just start jamming pencils into your eyes until the feelings go away.
Only navel-gazing morons mock basic research.
You realize these factories make more than iPads, right? And if China starts making itself unfriendly to a major foreign manufacturer (Apple is a BIG FUCKING COMPANY these days), they risk what amounts to the fuel of their economic engine.
My bet is that the whole thing will be squashed in very short order. The Chinese government knows what side the bread is buttered on.
And somehow one of them ended up on /.
Great. Now I can run Super Mario Bros. in Emacs!
I find LibreOffice docx support pretty weak. I wouldn't dream of saving anything beyond a trivial file in OOXML format in LibreOffice. I usually save either as a .doc or .odt.
My organization's was money as well. We do government contract-based employment services work. The cost of MS-Office licenses were absurdly high, and after some attempts to negotiate some lower per-seat rates I finally just threw up my hands and told our sales reps to forget it, I'd throw OpenOffice on the thirty computers in question and be done with it. It's not a completely perfect solution, and some documents, particularly resumes, with lots of formatting, can be problematic, but it's workable enough.
All our staff are running either Office 2003 or Office 2007, and I doubt we'll be upgrading. They work well enough for what we want. It's not as if Office 2010 offers anything all that spectacular, other than, of course, it will be supported longer than the older software. I suppose at some point Office 2003 at least won't install on some later version of Windows, and then we'll be forced into the difficult decision, but I doubt we'll be doing any major OS updates in the near future.
While such men represent a threat to Indians, the territorial threats that India has in mind involve long-running disputes with Pakistan and China.
Considering the scandal in Indian telecom, which their supreme court has just now finally made its ruling on, I'm not sure how often the Indian government keeps to that premise. It is a damned corrupt country. I expect the result probably had as much to do with French envoys with brown paper bags filled with hard currency as anything else.
And if theaters stopped treating patrons like cattle to be shoved through and actually made the experience more pleasant, they'd do better as well. There are plenty of ways to make the actual physical experience sufficiently value-added that people will go.
I'm looking at a band like Rush, whose last album took a few years to hit gold status. By the old logic, not having an album or a single in the top 40, or at least the top 100, meant at best being a bit player. And yet these guys are selling out or nearly selling out every show on their last few tours. I suspect they probably don't give a crap about record sales any more, it likely makes up a pretty small percentage of their revenue. I'll wager that within a decade some of the really big acts will probably just be giving CDs away as promotion, particularly when the sale of, say, concert t-shirts and programmes outweighs what they can make.
Then that's the way it's going to be. The cannon completely wiped out feudalism by allowing the King to directly create an army capable of blowing up barons' castles around them. Utterly disruptive, completely shattered all those things built atop the delicate web of social hiearchy.
It will suck, but at the end of the day, the media industry is fighting the same kind of battle. The genie is out of the bottle, and if it means no more billion dollar movies get made, or no band can ever get as big as U2, then we'll have to live with it.
New technologies have made old models unsustainable before. That's the way things work. Don't see too many fletchers these days.
Neil Young had a pretty interesting observation recently that P2P filesharing is the new radio. His chief complaint is that the sound quality of the music is rather bad. I realize he's sitting at the tail end of his career and probably doesn't give much of a shit any more, and he's had enough battles with record companies in his time that I doubt they provoke much sympathy from him, but I think it shows that sometimes things can appear quite different depending on your perspective. If you're looking at The Pirate Bay as the evil thieves' site, then yes, you want to crush it. If you look at as the promotional site, then what you need to do is create a value added system so people will go to the theater or to the concert to see the real thing. Do that and TPB ceases to be an evil, but simply becomes a promotional channel.
The trick in the future is going to be figuring out you can get as big enough that you can live off the proceeds of touring. Top tie regional artists can usually do well enough to pay the bills, but much below that at it rapidly becomes more of a hobby than an occupation.
Let's face it, to a large extent the musical superstar is a creation of the whole record company machine. I'm dubious that you could have big acts like Frank Sinatra or Elvis or Pink Floyd without the business model that the record companies created. However, for every talented act like, say, the Rolling Stones, the model has also provided us with drek like New Kids On The Block (actually I imagine the ratio is tipped much more towards drek). But the point is that the BIG ACTS got BIG because record companies were in a position to market them. If you don't have these vast promotional machines I think you won't see any more U2s or Bon Jovis.
What I actually think is going to happen is that companies like Apple and Google are just going to create their own labels. They're savvy companies who understand the new reality far better than the RIAA folks. They have to play ball right now, but you watch, in the long run these companies and those that follow in their footsteps are just going to sidestep the current content distribution models are start doing it themselves. That will be the death of the current batch of big media companies.
Some things are worth prosecuting, some things end up doing more harm than good if you persue them. I think you might almost be smart enough to see the difference.
I don't think the analogy with 17th and 18th century piracy really fits. We're not talking about a few groups cracking DRM and selling the music. In fact, it's not like that at all. Most of the piracy, so it is called, isn't even for profit any more.
You know, I always love it when some fucking retard tries to lecture me about how Hitler came to power. The Nazis did not have a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. The reason Hitler came to power is because von Papen told Hindenburg that Hitler could be controlled, and thus convinced the ailing (and increasingly senile) President to name Hitler Chancellor. Hitler wasn't elected to that position because he did not command a majority in the Reichstag.
Maybe you need to learn something about how parliaments work, fucktard.
This claim about democracies always bothers me, because it rests on the fallacious notion that there is only one kind of democracy.
Besides, look at Israel, which has an electoral system built on all the great post-war innovations. What happened? Fringe parties end up becoming kingmakers and swinging governments in directions in many cases directly opposed to the views of the majority. Do you consider that a democracy?
Or what about many European nations, like Germany, where parties form what amount to permanent coalitions, basically super-parties that may split up during elections, but re-coalesce afterwards. How exactly is this any different than the results one might get from a FPTP election?
While I agree electoral reform is important, I find your claim idiotic, and your idea that somehow your private definition of "democracy" does in fact deliver the goods highly questionable.
In other words, a reasonably experienced admin armed with Google and a basic knowledge of LDAP, DNS and Windows configuration is better armed for working with an Active Directory environment than someone who received a Microsoft certification.
I took some of the Microsoft certification Windows 2008 server courses, and I came out of understanding how these guys with their shiny certifications can be such incredibly ignorant idiots. I was astounded. How exactly any of it resembles in any way a proper education into something as multifaceted and at times complex as building, administering and troubleshooting an Active Directory environment was beyond me.
Just like how business graduates leveraged fast talking with dick wagging! And look at those guys. They get million dollar bonuses while the companies they pilot crashland into the ground and investors feel somewhere between gang-raped and immolated.
The best way to stop bullying is to have a gallows in the middle of the school yard and hoist every single bully up. They're rotting dead corpses can be a reminder to anyone who thinks its okay to shove some poor scrawny kid into the lockers and steal his lunch money.
In other words, make bullies so fucking terrified to even blink that they either tow the line or, even better, stay home and get started on being vicious alcoholics to their families a few years ahead of schedule.
If Congress doesn't like it, they are most certainly free to create a bill that strips the government of any capacity to enact any policy based on ACTA. No need to impeach. Of course, since a goodly number of member of Congress are probably in full accord, it's little wonder they're not upset at being deprived of the right to rubberstamp this agreement.
The problem is that the sheer number of lawyers means they cease to be simply advocates but instead become the formulators. We need less lawyers, a lot less.
That they, the fans and the civic and state governments that bend to pressure from billionaire owners are, collectively, a bunch of fucking morons.
But I'm all for keeping the Superbowel safe. Can you imagine if al Qaeda did kill a few thousand people at the game? Fuck, we'd have ten years with of awful tributes to the fallen as low IQ types chanted "USA USA USA" and presidents and congressman would give speeches of how they died for freedom and football.