Depending on how much effort you're willing to put into maintaining a nice SOE/MOE, there is a solution for your woes.
Turn the normal install into a proper MSI. This way, the MSI will repair any missing files or registry settings that a user requires to run the app. You can even change and set permissions on the main install directory it creates in the Program Files directory if you require write access. Or just give it write permissions to the save location folder.
You can even take it a step further if you have an old computer lying around that you can set up as a RIS server and an AD server so you can even do deployment if you have enough computers in your home network to make it worth your while.
There are lots of very expensive, and also free MSI creators. Once you've created it, my editor of choice to manually edit is Microsoft Orca. It is lightweight and very basic but it does exactly what you ask it to do.
Exactly.
Everyone is out to protect themselves. It is only natural.
The Europeans want to keep their jobs.
The Indians want their(Europeans') jobs.
The shareholders want to keep making money.
They need to realise that if the Indians(or any offshoring workers) can get the same amount of work done, with the same amount of quality, for less, the businesses will move there. If the company decides to just stay in the long run the company will face dropping profits. Then it may be too late for everyone.
IMO people need to sit back, and think of how to be more productive or provide new services if they want to be the worker of choice.
Striking is a short term solution. It may let the current generation keep their jobs but what about the next one?
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Depending on how much effort you're willing to put into maintaining a nice SOE/MOE, there is a solution for your woes. Turn the normal install into a proper MSI. This way, the MSI will repair any missing files or registry settings that a user requires to run the app. You can even change and set permissions on the main install directory it creates in the Program Files directory if you require write access. Or just give it write permissions to the save location folder. You can even take it a step further if you have an old computer lying around that you can set up as a RIS server and an AD server so you can even do deployment if you have enough computers in your home network to make it worth your while. There are lots of very expensive, and also free MSI creators. Once you've created it, my editor of choice to manually edit is Microsoft Orca. It is lightweight and very basic but it does exactly what you ask it to do.
Exactly. Everyone is out to protect themselves. It is only natural. The Europeans want to keep their jobs. The Indians want their(Europeans') jobs. The shareholders want to keep making money. They need to realise that if the Indians(or any offshoring workers) can get the same amount of work done, with the same amount of quality, for less, the businesses will move there. If the company decides to just stay in the long run the company will face dropping profits. Then it may be too late for everyone. IMO people need to sit back, and think of how to be more productive or provide new services if they want to be the worker of choice. Striking is a short term solution. It may let the current generation keep their jobs but what about the next one?
Intel has had a factory in Penang, Malaysia for 30+ years now. http://www.intel.com/jobs/malaysia/sites/penang.ht m