See if you went to college, you would learn things like how to use a comma in a sentence. What the difference between "higher" and "hire" is, and what the difference between "passed" and "past". Sometimes that is important as a web developer, especially external facing web sites.
Or the cellular company monopolies, or the satellite company monopolies.. Oh, that's a lot of monopolies all willing to give you service. Perhaps we should call them, let's see... Duopolies, Triopolies, Quadopolies? How many opolies will it take for you to have enough competition?
And when I bought my car, I had to pay a "tire" tax, a "radio" tax, and a "window" tax. None of those items were made by the company I bought the car from. Can I demand a refund on those because I wanted different (better) tires, a 3rd party radio, and tinted windows?
When I bought my GPS, I had to pay a "linux" tax. Can I demand a refund since they didn't make linux?
Yes, I know the redcoats are part of Europe. I specifically mentioned them because that is where the majority of them come from. Noone here watches a lot of movies or tv from the rest of Europe.
Hmm.. I'm guessing walking around calling Americans Yanks is your problem. Considering that a "Yankee" was originally someone from the New England area, but during the civil war it was what the southerners called the northerners. Outside of the civil war context, I don't believe I have heard the word except in movies/tv shows originating from England usually used in a derogatory way to refer to Americans.
As for your friends kids, I can't tell you what the issue was, I wasn't there. But good way to generalize all of America based on the experience of a few kids 20 years ago.
I've spent time in nearly every state, and I have never, not once, heard anyone talking about the civil war. I'm not sure where you got your information, but I think someone was feeding you a bunch of garbage. Guess there really is someone that gullible.
As for the french, recently that's likely because they refused to cooperate with the UN when the US was trying for a diplomatic solution in the middle east, and the French would consistently veto any resolution we put forth, or dragged it on so long that it would have been literally years before anything at all would have been done. This forced the US to declare war on IRAQ without being able to try stricter sanctions first in any sort of timely manner.
The older generations probably remember the french getting their asses handed to them and the germans conquering the country in a week. We loaned a lot (tens of billions) of money and equipment to france, which were never repaid. Of course we sent a lot of men to die to liberate their country, only to be stabbed in the back at every turn in the UN today. I'd say there are SOME that have a grudge against the French, but I don't think it's a large portion, but then again they have some pretty valid reasons to be upset.
Hmm... I highly doubt that Americans just walk up to you at random and say that. From what I've seen it's usually a provoked response, typically started from anti-American comments by British/Europeans that feel they are superior to the rest of the world.
It's not meaningless, it's quite meaningful to a large number of people. Just because it's not meaningful to you doesn't mean it's meaningless. One day you'll realize the world doesn't revolve around just you.
Please point out the spec that defines how to do formulas. Oh? You can't find it? You know, you are right, it seems to be oddly missing. Now it's going to be real hard to make a clean room office suite with no standard on how to do formulas. I guess we can make a giant table where you can only type in numbers. We'll just leave out the more exotic things like adding, subtracting, summing, ranges, etc into a later version.
Well except they are all buggy, and take forever to actually fix the bugs when you submit them. Firefox has bugs that go back over 6 years. I personally have registered bugs with all 3 chrome, safari, and firefox. Some of them over a year old, and NONE of them have been fixed.
Yes, they are different, but that does not invalidate what I said. If you expect to use a FOSS project in an environment where it has to work with other software, often it is easier to have microsoft to microsoft is brain dead easy. Microsoft to another commercial app is harder, and Microsoft to FOSS is more difficult. However, FOSS to another FOSS is usually by far the hardest.
Just for the record, open source products are often, but not always free (as in cost). That depends largely on the licence they use, and their business model.
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See if you went to college, you would learn things like how to use a comma in a sentence. What the difference between "higher" and "hire" is, and what the difference between "passed" and "past". Sometimes that is important as a web developer, especially external facing web sites.
Not to sound too offensive, but you were in high school when you were 18, sounds like you were off to a bad start to begin with.
I graduated from high school just after I turned 17, albeit I only attended 3.5 years.
Life does exist beyond being 27, believe it or not!
So it's not about competition, you are just upset that you can't get it for cheaper?
Or the cellular company monopolies, or the satellite company monopolies.. Oh, that's a lot of monopolies all willing to give you service. Perhaps we should call them, let's see... Duopolies, Triopolies, Quadopolies? How many opolies will it take for you to have enough competition?
I wasn't including those, just cable + DSL.
You have a highway running straight to your house? Nice!
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1127149169.png
or
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1127154522.png
10Mbps? Seriously? I think you dropped a 0 at the end, and even then you'd still be wrong.
You can get cable internet to 50Mbs easily here. You can get 100Mbs on cable if you talk to the right people. You can get FiOS to 150Mbs.
Are you willing to pay for it? You are? Great, you and Joe Bob from down the street, start your own internet COOP!
Seriously.
the US has just about zero competition for ISP service
Complete FUD. Over 80% of the people in the US have a choice of 2 (or more) ISPs. 80% is a far cry from "just about 0".
that's only because MS is doint things like telling them to install Windows on 100% of their machines or the price per machine doubles
FUD. Microsoft doesn't have any licenses like that.
And when I bought my car, I had to pay a "tire" tax, a "radio" tax, and a "window" tax. None of those items were made by the company I bought the car from. Can I demand a refund on those because I wanted different (better) tires, a 3rd party radio, and tinted windows?
When I bought my GPS, I had to pay a "linux" tax. Can I demand a refund since they didn't make linux?
Don't fret, it isn't much better in firefox, and it's impossible to use IE. I'm not sure what browser they tested with, must be opera.
Yes, I know the redcoats are part of Europe. I specifically mentioned them because that is where the majority of them come from. Noone here watches a lot of movies or tv from the rest of Europe.
Hmm.. I'm guessing walking around calling Americans Yanks is your problem. Considering that a "Yankee" was originally someone from the New England area, but during the civil war it was what the southerners called the northerners. Outside of the civil war context, I don't believe I have heard the word except in movies/tv shows originating from England usually used in a derogatory way to refer to Americans.
As for your friends kids, I can't tell you what the issue was, I wasn't there. But good way to generalize all of America based on the experience of a few kids 20 years ago.
I've spent time in nearly every state, and I have never, not once, heard anyone talking about the civil war. I'm not sure where you got your information, but I think someone was feeding you a bunch of garbage. Guess there really is someone that gullible.
As for the french, recently that's likely because they refused to cooperate with the UN when the US was trying for a diplomatic solution in the middle east, and the French would consistently veto any resolution we put forth, or dragged it on so long that it would have been literally years before anything at all would have been done. This forced the US to declare war on IRAQ without being able to try stricter sanctions first in any sort of timely manner.
The older generations probably remember the french getting their asses handed to them and the germans conquering the country in a week. We loaned a lot (tens of billions) of money and equipment to france, which were never repaid. Of course we sent a lot of men to die to liberate their country, only to be stabbed in the back at every turn in the UN today. I'd say there are SOME that have a grudge against the French, but I don't think it's a large portion, but then again they have some pretty valid reasons to be upset.
Hmm... I highly doubt that Americans just walk up to you at random and say that. From what I've seen it's usually a provoked response, typically started from anti-American comments by British/Europeans that feel they are superior to the rest of the world.
It's not meaningless, it's quite meaningful to a large number of people. Just because it's not meaningful to you doesn't mean it's meaningless. One day you'll realize the world doesn't revolve around just you.
http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/
Please point out the spec that defines how to do formulas. Oh? You can't find it? You know, you are right, it seems to be oddly missing. Now it's going to be real hard to make a clean room office suite with no standard on how to do formulas. I guess we can make a giant table where you can only type in numbers. We'll just leave out the more exotic things like adding, subtracting, summing, ranges, etc into a later version.
You are correct, most browsers DO use the doctype, and any web designer that's written html for more than a week knows this.
Well except they are all buggy, and take forever to actually fix the bugs when you submit them. Firefox has bugs that go back over 6 years. I personally have registered bugs with all 3 chrome, safari, and firefox. Some of them over a year old, and NONE of them have been fixed.
Yes, they are different, but that does not invalidate what I said. If you expect to use a FOSS project in an environment where it has to work with other software, often it is easier to have microsoft to microsoft is brain dead easy. Microsoft to another commercial app is harder, and Microsoft to FOSS is more difficult. However, FOSS to another FOSS is usually by far the hardest.
Just for the record, open source products are often, but not always free (as in cost). That depends largely on the licence they use, and their business model.