Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Personally I find those two things missing from his reviews of Apple stuff.
This is all in response to Russell commenting about something about the iPad that he found irritating.
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People who feel very strongly about being able to use real HTML might wish to avoid these forums
Or.... they might want to get out more.
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I've seen too many people in the last few months of their PhD try to work out why Word is skipping footnotes or refusing to paginate their document properly; it's just not designed for long-form work.
Word works really well for producing camera ready copy for manuscripts. We tend to do them out to 300 pages, about 12 - 20 sections with few problems. The styling actually works pretty well. Footnotes are OK, never had a problem with pagination.
Where it really falls down is anything to do with images. I tell all our postgrads, if they're going to insert images into word documents, make that the absolute last thing they do, as you'll hate the software by the time you finish.
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I'm sure it's still several rungs farther from the bottom than the one where the designer of PowerPoint is going to be spend eternity.
The powerpoint dude is well above whoever designed Microsoft Word's 'save as html' feature. Only useful for unembedding images from word docs I've found.
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And the dental X-ray analogy is misleading.
Also the people that regularly take x-rays (currently striking) stand behind a protective shield when they take x-rays of me in hospital.
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it's like saying you can just re-build that 1:25 scale replica of the Cutty Sark that you constructed lovingly from matchsticks over the last 20 years, after dear great-aunt Harriet, who's at least 70kg overweight, tripped over and sat on it.
I think you need to move on dude, it was a long time ago.
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Gio: you do realise that there's absolutely no motivation for a company in a low-wage country to increase its wages when a tariff removes one of its advantages?
Actually if the tariff was set to increase your wages to a set amount, there's no motivation to pay less than that amount.
If you're paying $1/hour, and then the tariff puts another $9/hour on top of that, you might as well pay your employee $10/hour. Same price that you're selling at the end, more money going to your employee rather than some foreign government.
Whether or not you'd sell any shoes in that market as a result is more the question.
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And I guess one difference between dentistry, banking and prostitution is that only one of those professions would be likely to be chosen by someone who was looking to support a P-habit.
I'm going to guess that members of all three of those professions support a P habit in NZ. Banking and dentistry are probably harder to get into and make enough money off if you've already got the habit however.
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I see no problem with introducing a law that says you need to pay the minimum wage of the country in which you're selling your products
It's difficult to see how that would work in practice. What if my factory exports to 20 different countries, all with wildly different wage structures? Do I pick the top one? Won't I suddenly decide to stop selling to that country to reduce my wage bill?
Does it work in reverse? Can Fonterra sell milk to China and only pay its NZ workers 50 cents/day?
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In lieu of anywhere else to post it, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac owned Fox and Friends on Monday (our Tuesday) over their linking a Saudi Financer to the new Muslim Community Centre who turned out to own part of Fox.
Not so much owned as kicked them in the shins, and then while they were lying on the ground kicked them again between the legs. Some of their best work:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-23-2010/the-parent-company-trap
(and er, E1 of S3 of Californication on last night was also good I thought)