Yeah, I'll look into that. It's just a shame to have to do extra work and spend extra money because a company decides to screw you over after your purchase.
Well, look who's looking like an idiot for setting up my entire house with Hue lights recently after running two bulbs with local control for years...
sigh it's getting mighty frustrating having to deal with companies hoarding your data.
I actually ran this setup for a pretty long while without major issues. YMMV but OneDrive is not a terrible way to store a single user database backend if you don't have a lot of sequential writes going into it in a short timespan.
Yes, but at the time Excel didn't support concurrency either ;-)
Anyway, you are correct about the issue with concurrent writes, but that's only because Access was intended as a single user DB.
If you wanted a multi-user DB you should be getting MS SQL server.
Not saying this product strategy worked (it clearly didn't, otherwise people would not be using Excel), but that's how they envisioned it to work.
Storing data is only one of the parts to the formula of what makes a database. Proper databases require structured storage of the data and some way to query the data constructively. Excel did not have those features until Microsoft gave up trying to convince people to not use it as a DB and added it to Excel.
Yeah, the real criminals here are the transportation company here if you ask me. Their actions amount to negligence at best and reckless endangerment at worst if you ask me.
The fact that they are getting away with a fine while the driver gets both jail time and deportation is a miscarriage of justice if you ask me.
Furthermore, it's clear he's remorseful for what happened and does not pose a further risk to society. At the very least we should extend him the courtesy of a second chance.
Microsoft spent years and years trying to get people to not use Excel as a database, until they eventually had to give up hope that anyone who doesn't know the difference would voluntarily use Access, so they started adding database-like functionality to Excel to meet their customer's demands and try to make the experience at least a little bit less painful.
This is a real-life case of "meet the user where they are" despite the designer's wishes, because even within Microsoft, there is strong agreement on not using Excel as a DB.
That was the most infuriating thing about this whole post to me. Elon's braindead take is on brand and expected at this point, but that chart (or worse, the reaserch behind it) is the true crime here.
That's not the point I am trying to make. The point is that even those "common sense" judgements change over time, and even if you manage to get out in 5 years or less that career you picked based on common sense might be going through a recession, regression, is being replaced by foreign labor or technology, etc. etc.
I am sorry, but your proof invalidates your argument. Look at the story we're responding to - she had 5k in debt that spawned into multitudes due to her inability to pay it back as a result of living paycheck to paycheck. 20k or 30k is not a small amount of money for people living a minimum wage existence.
But at some point the upper class depends on more than just cheap labor. You need educated people to innovate, you need a well-paid middle class to support a consumption economy.
If everyone is uneducated and destitute the whole house of cards upon which the upper class is able to exist will collapse.
I just don't understand how the concept of "a rising tide lifts all boats" is so lost on some policy makers.
Which is probably the most ridiculous thing ever. Bankruptcy should treat all debtors equally, and we should treat personal bankruptcy similar to corporate bankruptcy. Instead of creating classes of debt that survive a bankruptcy by default, how about we just include them all into the debt restructuring process? Figure out what the person can and can't pay and make a plan based on that? It just feels exploitative to make some debts exempt from having to do that.
Career planning is just about the biggest scam we're sold when selecting an education.
Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, can predict what the job market will look like 5-10-15 years into the future, and yet we're asking people to gamble in the casino of life to get an education and take on debt (even if you are going to a less expensive school - the person you're replying to had parents working minimum wage, nobody in that situation has the kind of spare capital to fund any education without a loan) in hopes that their chosen profession will a) still exist when they leave university b) remain viable long enough to repay their debt and c) the economy doesn't contract significantly while they are in school, resulting in a "lost generation".
You need to have a seriously high powered crystal ball to make a prediction that accurate, or just admit that we're effectively forcing kids to gamble with their futures.
I'm not sure the statistics agree with your assessment of it being "many to most". For many people there simply is no choice. You either take out a loan, or you'll be stuck working minimum wage for the rest of your life.
And even for those that do take on an amount of debt that seems reasonable based on their prospective career path - that's still a BIG gamble that can spell financial ruination if, for whatever reason, said career fails to materialize.
Man, that's even more depressing. I will never understand why (mostly conservative) governments try to keep people down like this. I thought the human experiment was about lifting people up out of poverty and misery, not invent arbitrary systems that keep them there. What does society stand to gain from creating effectively a class of outcasts at the bottom of the social ladder?
Dear God this is saddening to read. What just system saddles people with a debt they have no choice but to take on in order to hopefully get a decent enough education to repay the loan, but then fails to account for situations where the borrower's income is not sufficient to be able to afford more than the minimum payments? All the while applying compounding interest on the principal to make sure it'll never be repaid?
And to make it truly evil, makes it so that they can garnish both your wages and pension in case of a default?
Seriously, student loans and medical debt should both be interest free and prorated to the person's income in terms of minimum payments. It's ridiculous to force people into a life of debt slavery just for the shot at a decent education or the right to be healthy.
Undoubtedly. But they will stir a whole lot of shit while they're going down.
If you think mass shooting are bad now, imagine if every single MAGAt becomes convinced they're going to be persecuted to "David Koresh"-levels and decides to kill a bunch of people on their way out....
I shudder to think the level of societal chaos this could cause.
Other than James Hetfield noone springs to mind in the category "Musicians' moms killed by Christian science". Who else were you referring to?