Thanks, I really think I'm going to be able to convince her about the benefits of open sourced, free software.
She needs a good calendar program as they paid for some calendar software and can only have 3 computers use it. What would be the best one that is very user friendly, and can be installed on all the present computers and will be only for their agency so that others cannot access it from outside the agency?
That's what I thought, but all of them had installed the plugin, and it just didn't work. I tried to get a buddy's Office 2000 to open.docx using the plugin, and I couldn't get it to work. I even went into safe mode to try to get it to install, but it just plain didn't work.
Most people just don't know about technology, and yet we thrust it upon them, and demand that they know what they're doing. Most of them barely know how to use a mouse for crying out loud!
When I was in university, the teachers had absolutely no idea what they were doing, and so they would use the latest Microsoft format, which was the.docx, and you should have seen all of the students freak out because hardly any of them could open the files up or if they could it wasn't properly formatted. I had to show all of my teachers how to set it so that they would only send it in 2000/XP.doc format. What was surprising, was that nearly all of my classmates used MS Office, and yet they couldn't access Microsoft's OWN formats! One teacher even suggested downloading Open Office so that the files could be opened. Now, if that doesn't show how closed sourced a supposedly open format is, then I don't know what is!
If the hospital demands that all formats within the agency to be odt, then little by little this will start a trend amongst the end users because they'll see how easy it'll be to use this open format and won't have to go through all the bs that Microsoft puts them through. This isn't going to happen overnight, but it will happen.
I'm going to be volunteering at a non-profit organization, and they have a really old database program, and the executive director is thinking of using LO Base, so I'm going to push for it because if they can't afford the Microsoft tax they'll be able to move over to Linux with absolutely no interoperably issues:-)
I totally agree with you about the fact that there aren't any real "advanced users" out there! I would say that 99% of the people out there that are using office software wouldn't know if they were using M$ or LO. In fact, if you were to "only" have a shop that runs LO, and had the staff trained on it, then they'd think the MS Office would stupid and counter intuitive and really hard to work. Most of the people that I've worked with don't have a clue about technology, so the fact that 25,000 staff across 13 hospitals in Denmark will be switching to LibreOffice over the course of the next year indicates that someone has their head on straight over there in Denmark...finally!
They're all businesses...end of story! I laugh at the book store at my campus when they put up little advertisements at the breakdown of all the costs of the books to justify why they're raising the prices; they add in the other cost of other businesses, which has nothing to do with them. They buy from the supplier, and then jack us for more profit...sigh!
With all the people coming forward about the abuses and rapes that the Church has perpetrated, to me this law is to protect the Church. The people coming forward were getting too close to the higher ups, and people in high positions were being implicated in this. Now, they can come into your home in Ireland for anything they want under the pretense of this law. I think their tourism is going to take a hit on this one, eh?
Yeah! I've always wondered how the artists are supposed to be compensated by all this money being collected. I could say that I'm in a band, and get money...right?
As soon as I get some cash together, I'm probably going to buy an ESlick as it doesn't have any of that DRM crap! Oh, and it's at a pretty reasonable price too.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/
Their tool bars are becoming much like Lotus Notes. I had to use it at my last job, and it was bewildering to say the very least! Of course, I had no formal training on it, but it should be intuitive...right?
Why didn't he try that stem cell therapy, or any newer technology where they grow your organ using your own cells??? Seriously, he's that rich that he could literally invest a huge chunk of change into it, and their 1st customer would be him! Apple...think different?
Of course they're going to fucking say they're successful! Where are they getting those figures from? Yeah, they made them up! Anything to make it look like they're winning.
I'd laugh my ass off as if I lived there as I'd argue for the FSM, and see how they spin out of control trying to prove me wrong...happy days in Texas schools!!! Reminds me of the time that I was allowed to write anything about the state of the Catholic religion at my Catholic High school anonymously! You should have seen what was written!!! That was a hap-hap-happy day!
OMG that is soooo funny! Can you imagine what one of the engineers or techs will say when they get that call that their country needs them, and they've been treated like fucking shit?!!! I'd laugh my fucking ass off, and tell them I want a couple of million dollars just to look at the issue with no promise that I'd fix it! Cha-fucking-ching!!!$$$$$$
It is quite obvious that you do not want me to work here anymore based upon your abuse, harassment, and belligerent behaviour towards me, so, effectively immediately, I quit.
Past the Straits of Gibraltar is a continent, in the centre along the longest side, high in the mountains by the sea is a rectangular level plain...this is the Bolivian Altiplano. http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisboliviapart1.htm [atlantisbolivia.org]
Past the Straits of Gibraltar is a continent, in the centre along the longest side, high in the mountains by the sea is a rectangular level plain...this is the Bolivian Altiplano. http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisboliviapart1.htm
They are making her an example of what is going to happen from now on.
It is really extreme to be doing what they are doing to her...hysterical is probably the best word to use here, but on the other hand this might cause the kids to suddenly behave...probably not because you're dealing with kids.
I used to work for a subcontractor for Lotteries, and we figured out that they hate steel wool as it shreds their mouths up. perhaps put steel wool around the cables, and then they'll fuck off.
My buddy's mother has never upgraded her computer from Windows 3.1 because she doesn't want to give up her games she has for it. I hadn't seen one of these since my Atari 600XL days...it was amazing seeing this bit of history operating, and it was blindingly fast!
If they do this "only 2 apps" thing, then I smell fail, and plenty of it!
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Thanks, I really think I'm going to be able to convince her about the benefits of open sourced, free software. She needs a good calendar program as they paid for some calendar software and can only have 3 computers use it. What would be the best one that is very user friendly, and can be installed on all the present computers and will be only for their agency so that others cannot access it from outside the agency?
That's what I thought, but all of them had installed the plugin, and it just didn't work. I tried to get a buddy's Office 2000 to open .docx using the plugin, and I couldn't get it to work. I even went into safe mode to try to get it to install, but it just plain didn't work.
Most people just don't know about technology, and yet we thrust it upon them, and demand that they know what they're doing. Most of them barely know how to use a mouse for crying out loud!
When I was in university, the teachers had absolutely no idea what they were doing, and so they would use the latest Microsoft format, which was the .docx, and you should have seen all of the students freak out because hardly any of them could open the files up or if they could it wasn't properly formatted. I had to show all of my teachers how to set it so that they would only send it in 2000/XP .doc format. What was surprising, was that nearly all of my classmates used MS Office, and yet they couldn't access Microsoft's OWN formats! One teacher even suggested downloading Open Office so that the files could be opened. Now, if that doesn't show how closed sourced a supposedly open format is, then I don't know what is!
If the hospital demands that all formats within the agency to be odt, then little by little this will start a trend amongst the end users because they'll see how easy it'll be to use this open format and won't have to go through all the bs that Microsoft puts them through. This isn't going to happen overnight, but it will happen.
I'm going to be volunteering at a non-profit organization, and they have a really old database program, and the executive director is thinking of using LO Base, so I'm going to push for it because if they can't afford the Microsoft tax they'll be able to move over to Linux with absolutely no interoperably issues:-)
I totally agree with you about the fact that there aren't any real "advanced users" out there! I would say that 99% of the people out there that are using office software wouldn't know if they were using M$ or LO. In fact, if you were to "only" have a shop that runs LO, and had the staff trained on it, then they'd think the MS Office would stupid and counter intuitive and really hard to work. Most of the people that I've worked with don't have a clue about technology, so the fact that 25,000 staff across 13 hospitals in Denmark will be switching to LibreOffice over the course of the next year indicates that someone has their head on straight over there in Denmark...finally!
shut up, fag. Your joke is fucking stupid.
Bill....Is that you?
They're all businesses...end of story! I laugh at the book store at my campus when they put up little advertisements at the breakdown of all the costs of the books to justify why they're raising the prices; they add in the other cost of other businesses, which has nothing to do with them. They buy from the supplier, and then jack us for more profit...sigh!
Fix that for you - Craig Mundie: Microsoft's Chief Thief and Rip-Officer
With all the people coming forward about the abuses and rapes that the Church has perpetrated, to me this law is to protect the Church. The people coming forward were getting too close to the higher ups, and people in high positions were being implicated in this. Now, they can come into your home in Ireland for anything they want under the pretense of this law. I think their tourism is going to take a hit on this one, eh?
Yeah! I've always wondered how the artists are supposed to be compensated by all this money being collected. I could say that I'm in a band, and get money...right?
As soon as I get some cash together, I'm probably going to buy an ESlick as it doesn't have any of that DRM crap! Oh, and it's at a pretty reasonable price too. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/
Their tool bars are becoming much like Lotus Notes. I had to use it at my last job, and it was bewildering to say the very least! Of course, I had no formal training on it, but it should be intuitive...right?
Does this only pertain to the US, or is it all over the world?
I'm wondering if they have a percentage of the city employees who, after using Linux at work, have migrated over to Linux at home?
Why didn't he try that stem cell therapy, or any newer technology where they grow your organ using your own cells??? Seriously, he's that rich that he could literally invest a huge chunk of change into it, and their 1st customer would be him! Apple...think different?
Of course they're going to fucking say they're successful! Where are they getting those figures from? Yeah, they made them up! Anything to make it look like they're winning.
I'd laugh my ass off as if I lived there as I'd argue for the FSM, and see how they spin out of control trying to prove me wrong...happy days in Texas schools!!! Reminds me of the time that I was allowed to write anything about the state of the Catholic religion at my Catholic High school anonymously! You should have seen what was written!!! That was a hap-hap-happy day!
OMG that is soooo funny! Can you imagine what one of the engineers or techs will say when they get that call that their country needs them, and they've been treated like fucking shit?!!! I'd laugh my fucking ass off, and tell them I want a couple of million dollars just to look at the issue with no promise that I'd fix it! Cha-fucking-ching!!!$$$$$$
It is quite obvious that you do not want me to work here anymore based upon your abuse, harassment, and belligerent behaviour towards me, so, effectively immediately, I quit.
Past the Straits of Gibraltar is a continent, in the centre along the longest side, high in the mountains by the sea is a rectangular level plain...this is the Bolivian Altiplano. http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisboliviapart1.htm [atlantisbolivia.org]
DOH!!!!!!!!!! Wrong Thread....Sorry;-P
Past the Straits of Gibraltar is a continent, in the centre along the longest side, high in the mountains by the sea is a rectangular level plain...this is the Bolivian Altiplano. http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisboliviapart1.htm
They are making her an example of what is going to happen from now on. It is really extreme to be doing what they are doing to her...hysterical is probably the best word to use here, but on the other hand this might cause the kids to suddenly behave...probably not because you're dealing with kids.
I used to work for a subcontractor for Lotteries, and we figured out that they hate steel wool as it shreds their mouths up. perhaps put steel wool around the cables, and then they'll fuck off.
Most users don't know what the hell they are doing in the first place, and that's what Microsoft is counting on.
My buddy's mother has never upgraded her computer from Windows 3.1 because she doesn't want to give up her games she has for it. I hadn't seen one of these since my Atari 600XL days...it was amazing seeing this bit of history operating, and it was blindingly fast! If they do this "only 2 apps" thing, then I smell fail, and plenty of it!