MS' seeming inability to get their shit together and write a tutorial that doesn't assume that the user is experienced or stupid
Ah, but it shows their brilliance! They would never provide an easy little tutorial while they can charge you 30 bucks to solve stuff over the phone or subject you to their crap on their website. But the clients that won't take this sort of shit, like executives? In a situation where they have a choice of products? Microsoft isn't stupid enough to NOT cater to those people either. Check it: Excel has a "help for lotus users" button.
Total information awareness? Reminds me of Robin Williams' live on broadway...
Bill Gates: Yes, Mr. Senator, it will be called Total Information Technology, or TIT. And when you're sucking on the tit, I have you by the motherboard!
Senator: Mr. Gates, but what about Monopoly rules?
(In tiny, ridiculous voice)
Bill Gates: Monopoly is a game, Mr. Senator. I want to control the fucking world!
An Outback holds as much as a Sequoia? Bull-shit. It's just not tall enough or long enough. Without the rear row, and the middle row out of the way, I've fit furniture in a Sequoia that wouldn't even come close to fitting in an outback or a forester.
That said, I'd still agree that an outback is a cooler car.
I think the real winner is the Brazilian citizens.
That's not necessarily the case. Unfortunately, our bureaucracy is just that- bureaucratic, confused and incompetent. If they get it right, it'll be wonderful, and not only because- we'll have the single largest linux-trained operation (or whatever OS they feel like) in the WORLD, and that's a hell of an advantage.
The problem is that our illustrious government doesn't quite have a good history of implementing new technology. It's kind of hit-and-miss; sometimes it works out great, sometimes it just plain sucks.
Yeah, it's easy if you know your shit. Except "know your shit" isn't as easy as it sounds. A lot of people don't know how to pop from a stack. (I know, oh, mighty slashdotters, you don't even think about things like simple data structures when you program) I'm in an AP Comp class right now, in fact, (test next week) and the vast majority of the class are the morons who play quake and read fark and therefore consider themselves "the shit." The only other person with a high grade on the class (aside from me) is a kid in one of the teacher's other classes who decided to join. (The same teacher teaches AP Calculus.)
And lets not forget the double play Negro --> Black --> African American
I love "african american." You see, I'm a Brazilian living in the U.S., and I've decided I need my own denomination like that. "brazilian-american" doesn't fit, cause that would be country-continent instead of continent-continent. (Yes, America is a continent, not a country.)
Therefore, I prefer to be called South American American, or simply South American^2 (South American Squared).
3. The plane's range is barely enough for a transatlantic crossing from New York to Paris or London.
and
imagine Paris to Rio de Janeiro...
It's range is bigger than just London/Paris-NYC, because the original routes were Paris, London, New York and Rio. This was back when we in Brazil had money, and the heyday of Rio's tourism.
Fact: The United States spends more on defense than every other country in the world, combined. (Newsweek, current issue, cover "Why the world fears us")
Fact: Many people in Iraq are illiterate. (42%) CIA factbook is your friend.
Fact: The United States has tons of satellite guided missiles that can easily destroy military complexes as long as they know where they are. (GPS coordinates.
Logic: Shouldn't be too freaking hard for the US to beat the pants off the Iraqi military.
Personal judgement: Not too awe inspiring, guys.
Now, before you call my logic crap, moronic, and whatever else you did, realize that I did not at any point make an opinion about the war- I in fact support Saddam's demise. However, your not-so-good troll (which I did bite) quickly assumes that I'm not, and uses great words like "cerdibility" and "destroies" to call my "stupid arguments" "emotionally loaded" and even, oh, my, "devoid of truth."
Well, sir, I think your arguments are null and indubitably erraneous. Thesauri and dictionaries are your friends.
Yeah, because a country that spends more on its defense than every other country in the world combined bombing the crap out of a bunch of illiterate peasants in the desert is certainly awe-inspiring.
I also had the original Rio PMP300 and my Rio mp3-cd player is sitting in my car to this day, with an iRock hooked up to it so my radio can play it. (no CD in my car stereo.)
Great products. The Diamond Viper Ultra 770 was a hell of a card.
Helpful for learning, though. In my High School C++ class, we use special templated classes made by the College Board called apvectors and apmatrices (these are arrays protected against accessing non-existant elements..). We also use apstacks, apstrings, and apqueues. They are very helpful in learning important ways to store data and other concepts. They're also very useful to help us understand classes when we get to that chapter, cause then we can read their code and understand how they work.
They would have to be retrained no matter what. You cannot go from Windows 95 to any NT-based Windows without a learning curve.
True... except that many employees (certainly not all, but enough to have an impact on costs) would already have been using Windows XP elsewhere (eg, at home).
Would it be feasible if the company help install Linux at employees' homes? Maybe give/lend them a new computer/laptop? A kind of training? I'm sure it's been thought of before...
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Ah, but it shows their brilliance! They would never provide an easy little tutorial while they can charge you 30 bucks to solve stuff over the phone or subject you to their crap on their website. But the clients that won't take this sort of shit, like executives? In a situation where they have a choice of products? Microsoft isn't stupid enough to NOT cater to those people either. Check it: Excel has a "help for lotus users" button.
(sorry!)
(I'm actually interested.)
Bill Gates: Yes, Mr. Senator, it will be called Total Information Technology, or TIT. And when you're sucking on the tit, I have you by the motherboard!
Senator: Mr. Gates, but what about Monopoly rules?
(In tiny, ridiculous voice)
Bill Gates: Monopoly is a game, Mr. Senator. I want to control the fucking world!
Or something like that...
That said, I'd still agree that an outback is a cooler car.
The real question is, what would they have been sentenced if they had gone to the mall and shot a person in the head and another in the hip?
John Schmoe, English 11, Unit X327Bob, "Gatsby"
Love, lost, found, despair, colors, happiness, people.
I call it "keyword essay."
12.5 mph is the fastest possible speed a Segway can reach in flat land.
Flat. That means not a mountain.
from the hubble-trouble-kerfuffle dept.
That's not necessarily the case. Unfortunately, our bureaucracy is just that- bureaucratic, confused and incompetent. If they get it right, it'll be wonderful, and not only because- we'll have the single largest linux-trained operation (or whatever OS they feel like) in the WORLD, and that's a hell of an advantage.
The problem is that our illustrious government doesn't quite have a good history of implementing new technology. It's kind of hit-and-miss; sometimes it works out great, sometimes it just plain sucks.
Immediately after, a bunch of hackers with nothing to do open doobisney, dumbisney, and such companies.
And lets not forget the double play
Negro --> Black --> African American
I love "african american." You see, I'm a Brazilian living in the U.S., and I've decided I need my own denomination like that. "brazilian-american" doesn't fit, cause that would be country-continent instead of continent-continent. (Yes, America is a continent, not a country.)
Therefore, I prefer to be called South American American, or simply South American^2 (South American Squared).
Yeah, that was, like my favorite game ever and I never...is he modding me down? SHOOOOOORYUKEN!
and
imagine Paris to Rio de Janeiro...
It's range is bigger than just London/Paris-NYC, because the original routes were Paris, London, New York and Rio. This was back when we in Brazil had money, and the heyday of Rio's tourism.
sorry, it doesn't stick it to zee germans. maybe if it were ten years earlier...
Plus, it sticks it too zee germans.
Fact: The United States spends more on defense than every other country in the world, combined. (Newsweek, current issue, cover "Why the world fears us")
Fact: Many people in Iraq are illiterate. (42%) CIA factbook is your friend.
Fact: The United States has tons of satellite guided missiles that can easily destroy military complexes as long as they know where they are. (GPS coordinates.
Logic: Shouldn't be too freaking hard for the US to beat the pants off the Iraqi military.
Personal judgement: Not too awe inspiring, guys.
Now, before you call my logic crap, moronic, and whatever else you did, realize that I did not at any point make an opinion about the war- I in fact support Saddam's demise. However, your not-so-good troll (which I did bite) quickly assumes that I'm not, and uses great words like "cerdibility" and "destroies" to call my "stupid arguments" "emotionally loaded" and even, oh, my, "devoid of truth."
Well, sir, I think your arguments are null and indubitably erraneous. Thesauri and dictionaries are your friends.
Yeah, because a country that spends more on its defense than every other country in the world combined bombing the crap out of a bunch of illiterate peasants in the desert is certainly awe-inspiring.
Great products. The Diamond Viper Ultra 770 was a hell of a card.
Helpful for learning, though. In my High School C++ class, we use special templated classes made by the College Board called apvectors and apmatrices (these are arrays protected against accessing non-existant elements..). We also use apstacks, apstrings, and apqueues. They are very helpful in learning important ways to store data and other concepts. They're also very useful to help us understand classes when we get to that chapter, cause then we can read their code and understand how they work.
How do you leave little messages like that in Mozilla/Phoenix?
True... except that many employees (certainly not all, but enough to have an impact on costs) would already have been using Windows XP elsewhere (eg, at home).
Would it be feasible if the company help install Linux at employees' homes? Maybe give/lend them a new computer/laptop? A kind of training? I'm sure it's been thought of before...
How about Edition's Cut Special Director-Collector?
If you're gonna wait for twenty years, just get the Criterion Collection. That always rocks.