Don't get a solicitor or file a complaint. If you take some action you get your name in a database that could hurt your job chances later. A threat of filing is enough. Next time he mentions the paycheck, get a notepad out and make an attempt to write what he says verbatim, asking him to repeat. He'll get the idea.
The US has nothing againts the people of Iraq. We tried through all kinds of technology to only take out the murderous genocidal tyrant aggressor Saddam Hussein. The war would have not even started if the technology had worked. It didn't, I'm all for trying to improve the technology so we don't have to destroy a country in order to save it.
Saddam killed all the people who disagreed with him, the opposite of democracy. That is not funny.
If there is a way to help oppressed people rid themselves of murderous tyrants without killing lots of people and destroying cities I'm all for it. Then we wouldn't need a miltary anymore because democracies don't start wars.
Can you format cells in Excel?
Sure! Can you merge all these over here, put in empty columns to space things right, add a few space characters here to get this to line up right?
Um uh yeah sure! Wait a minute, we changed our mind, we want it organized by these categories, while you are at it add in a bunch of empty lines so it prints right, can you do that?
Yeah, but uh, it will take the rest of the day to undo all that and reformat, but uh sure! Hey, sorry, we changed our mind and want to turn this into a database, can you do that?
Um uh, if you had asked for a database in the first place, I wouldn't have wasted the whole day formatting... Is that an attitude I'm hearing from you?
Uh, no sir, I'll get right on it.
The 'idiots' are just business people. Business people trade value for value. Giving away value doesn't fit into any business model. I have noticed that the two major things that people are clamoring to be 'free'; software and music, happen to be the easiest to copy. Just a click is all it takes (video isn't easy yet but it won't take long). Nobody is clamoring for any other business product to be free. I think there is a direct link, people only want it to be free because it is easy to copy. I think 'free as in beer' should be changed to 'free as in I only have to click on it to copy it so I'm going to bitch that you should just give it to me for nothing'
Because Apple, like MS, understands that 'folks' recognize and appreciate words for software products better than acronyms and abbreviations. Linux types pride themselves on naming software with cryptic more-clever-than-you acronyms. This needlessly turns off 'folks' from migrating to Linux.
Windows: Media Player
Apple: iTunes
Linux: XMMS
People don't crack the Mac because it would be incredibly uncool to do so. On the other hand it is perceived as very cool to bash 'the man'. MS is 'the man' and so it is cracked. Go ahead, base your security scheme on which OS is coolest.
If Acrobat was considered as a word processor, it would rank amongst the worst. That is why most everyone uses Word and converts to pdf using Adobe's hackneyed tools that have not been updated/improved for years. Acrobat in fact is not a word processor, had it been, Word would have joined Wordperfect and Wordstar as former leaders and we would have an open and ubiquitous document format.
The us government branch I work with uses wordperfect which they then convert to pdf. Unfortunately nobody at wordperfect ever talked to adobe and so the government pdfs are filled with symbols made with unreadable fonts. This isn't portable. Why doesn't someone at adobe fix this? Anyone get a pdf from Japan lately?
Why doesn't adobe make a pdf word processor?
Fine until the people who make the content find out how easy and cheap it is to copy then clamp down with digital rights management included in the broadcast.
Go ahead, base your security scheme using the who-is-the-most-cool-therefore-least-likely-to-be- cracked method.
Open source isn't cracked because it is not cool to do so. It is cool to bash 'the man'. MS is 'the man' so the more you bash/attack/crack it, the more cool you are.
You can chose either model or both, you can change from one to the other at any time, and back again.
Adapt or die. Look at Hayes, premium modem maker, perfectly positioned to ride the internet tsunami, open command set, commodity, didn't adapt, dead.
My point is that neither model is more noble, the FOSS/commodity approach is not more noble than the differentiated/premium approach. Most arguments on the FOSS side seem to think it is, but it is not.
There are two models; make a commodity and sell service or make a differentiated product and sell it at a premium. You see this throughout all industry. I've yet to see any justification that one way is more noble than the other.
Did not Apple get their name from Apple Records, deliberately trying to appropriate some of the coolness/hipness of someone else's brand? Fine as long as they only made computers, but now they are in the record business and are still hasseling with Records over it. Look at all the companies trying to grab fistfulls of iPod brand. Lesson: don't bother making a new brand, just steal someone else's.
I tried to explain this to someone once: You can make reports out of a database, a spreadsheet is a report, not a database, you cannot make reports out of a spreadsheet.
Has anyone walked through a typical office lately? Doesn't it seem like everyone is working endlessly on spreadsheets? They all seem to be spending more time formatting things than actaully getting useful/profitable information out of them. I'm sure you have all been there, you give your boss an exquisitely formatted sheet and he wnats you to change it anyways. Check any class in Excel, the first thing they teach you is how to format, not the basic math and logic you need to create something useful. The problem with the $10-100K number is that someone probably formatted the number wrong.
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commodity: anyone can make it, small margins foss: anyone can make it (you gave it to them for nothing), negative margins
Don't get a solicitor or file a complaint. If you take some action you get your name in a database that could hurt your job chances later. A threat of filing is enough. Next time he mentions the paycheck, get a notepad out and make an attempt to write what he says verbatim, asking him to repeat. He'll get the idea.
Sounds familiar, MS allows their lunch to be eaten for years then steps in claiming innovation.
The US has nothing againts the people of Iraq. We tried through all kinds of technology to only take out the murderous genocidal tyrant aggressor Saddam Hussein. The war would have not even started if the technology had worked. It didn't, I'm all for trying to improve the technology so we don't have to destroy a country in order to save it. Saddam killed all the people who disagreed with him, the opposite of democracy. That is not funny.
If there is a way to help oppressed people rid themselves of murderous tyrants without killing lots of people and destroying cities I'm all for it. Then we wouldn't need a miltary anymore because democracies don't start wars.
Hey boss! I've got this great idea! Let's turn our product into a commodity!
that feeds you
Can you format cells in Excel?
Sure!
Can you merge all these over here, put in empty columns to space things right, add a few space characters here to get this to line up right?
Um uh yeah sure!
Wait a minute, we changed our mind, we want it organized by these categories, while you are at it add in a bunch of empty lines so it prints right, can you do that?
Yeah, but uh, it will take the rest of the day to undo all that and reformat, but uh sure!
Hey, sorry, we changed our mind and want to turn this into a database, can you do that?
Um uh, if you had asked for a database in the first place, I wouldn't have wasted the whole day formatting...
Is that an attitude I'm hearing from you?
Uh, no sir, I'll get right on it.
The 'idiots' are just business people. Business people trade value for value. Giving away value doesn't fit into any business model. I have noticed that the two major things that people are clamoring to be 'free'; software and music, happen to be the easiest to copy. Just a click is all it takes (video isn't easy yet but it won't take long). Nobody is clamoring for any other business product to be free. I think there is a direct link, people only want it to be free because it is easy to copy. I think 'free as in beer' should be changed to 'free as in I only have to click on it to copy it so I'm going to bitch that you should just give it to me for nothing'
Because Apple, like MS, understands that 'folks' recognize and appreciate words for software products better than acronyms and abbreviations. Linux types pride themselves on naming software with cryptic more-clever-than-you acronyms. This needlessly turns off 'folks' from migrating to Linux. Windows: Media Player Apple: iTunes Linux: XMMS
People don't crack the Mac because it would be incredibly uncool to do so. On the other hand it is perceived as very cool to bash 'the man'. MS is 'the man' and so it is cracked. Go ahead, base your security scheme on which OS is coolest.
too bad they don't have a constitution protecting their right to use it to it's full potential
Let the folks at Debian run this project.
If Acrobat was considered as a word processor, it would rank amongst the worst. That is why most everyone uses Word and converts to pdf using Adobe's hackneyed tools that have not been updated/improved for years. Acrobat in fact is not a word processor, had it been, Word would have joined Wordperfect and Wordstar as former leaders and we would have an open and ubiquitous document format.
The us government branch I work with uses wordperfect which they then convert to pdf. Unfortunately nobody at wordperfect ever talked to adobe and so the government pdfs are filled with symbols made with unreadable fonts. This isn't portable. Why doesn't someone at adobe fix this? Anyone get a pdf from Japan lately? Why doesn't adobe make a pdf word processor?
Fine until the people who make the content find out how easy and cheap it is to copy then clamp down with digital rights management included in the broadcast.
Thin client connected to network/server controlled by murderous tryant third world dictator.
Go ahead, base your security scheme using the who-is-the-most-cool-therefore-least-likely-to-be- cracked method.
Open source isn't cracked because it is not cool to do so. It is cool to bash 'the man'. MS is 'the man' so the more you bash/attack/crack it, the more cool you are.
You can chose either model or both, you can change from one to the other at any time, and back again.
Adapt or die. Look at Hayes, premium modem maker, perfectly positioned to ride the internet tsunami, open command set, commodity, didn't adapt, dead.
My point is that neither model is more noble, the FOSS/commodity approach is not more noble than the differentiated/premium approach. Most arguments on the FOSS side seem to think it is, but it is not.
There are two models; make a commodity and sell service or make a differentiated product and sell it at a premium. You see this throughout all industry. I've yet to see any justification that one way is more noble than the other.
Did not Apple get their name from Apple Records, deliberately trying to appropriate some of the coolness/hipness of someone else's brand? Fine as long as they only made computers, but now they are in the record business and are still hasseling with Records over it. Look at all the companies trying to grab fistfulls of iPod brand. Lesson: don't bother making a new brand, just steal someone else's.
I tried to explain this to someone once: You can make reports out of a database, a spreadsheet is a report, not a database, you cannot make reports out of a spreadsheet.
Has anyone walked through a typical office lately? Doesn't it seem like everyone is working endlessly on spreadsheets? They all seem to be spending more time formatting things than actaully getting useful/profitable information out of them. I'm sure you have all been there, you give your boss an exquisitely formatted sheet and he wnats you to change it anyways. Check any class in Excel, the first thing they teach you is how to format, not the basic math and logic you need to create something useful. The problem with the $10-100K number is that someone probably formatted the number wrong.