Normally in procurement RFQ is the acronym for a Request for Quote. For a large contract like this vendors would be qualified with an RFI (Request for Information). When you actually bid you'd use a Request for Proposal (RFP). This is too large a contract to use quotes's on the primary contract.
This matters because RFI's are used early in the process. At those stages the agency may be able or willing to consider more creative approaches.
When LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice the latter was not being well maintained. Important bugs had been left unfixed for years, it was locked to Java and there wasn't much development happening. Since then the LO team has done a tremendous amount of work improving the underlying code. The result is a faster and more stable office platform.
OpenOffice burnt it's brand through neglect. Now LibreOffice is better known and it's earning a good reputation. However odd the name might be that fades away when people get used to it. I now see LO being installed side by side with MS Office in business environments and that was not happening with OpenOffice.
I don't know why LibreOffice defaults to using a different syntax than Excel. I'd have to go through all the development history to find out and I've got better things to do with my time. An AU in this thread noted that you can change your settings to use Excel syntax. I don't know why that post was modded down.
There are also two solutions to provided in your link. Change the exclamation mark to a period or import (rather than directly open) the excel file and save as ODS.
Progressives really like "hate speech" laws. It makes it easier to censor people, you know, just like what is happening in Europe.
Europeans have good reasons to see hate speech differently than we do in America. If Adolph Hitler had been muzzled early on millions of lives would have been saved.
The stickler on this is whether he was following company policy. Remember, they haven't cut off his access yet. It's likely therefore that he has not been given instructions to stop doing his job. Given that he's empowered to terminate accounts we can assume that doing so is within his job description. We also know that Donald Trump has repeatedly pushed the limits of Twitter's terms of service. Unless this person has been instructed otherwise, terminating the account could be entirely legal.
The real loser in this is likely to be the subcontracting company. I suspect that their contract with Twitter requires them to follow a procedure for terminating employees, and that they failed to do so.
With a lot of IT work it's hard to know how long a task should take. If a task takes 12 hours to finish instead of the 4 hours expected it helps to be able to look over someone's shoulder. If you know someone is working you're less likely to have unreasonable expectations. And it works both ways. It took me a while but I finally figured out that it's not to my benefit to work at home. If you want your work to be appreciated you need to be seen.
The negative comments I hear about VBA tend to come from people who either don't have personal experience or inherited badly built applications. VBA achieved early widespread use as an extension of Microsoft Access. Access projects were often slapped together by desktop power users who didn't understand database design and were not trained in programming. The results caused all sorts of headaches, particularly when the fundamental database structure was flawed. Additionally, the jet engine does not have the robustness of a proper relational database and is not well suited to multi-user applications. Professional programmers may use access to build a prototype but will move the database to a server before putting it into production. In reality, VBA is essentially VB6 tied into the office platform. It is a dated language but it is not inferior to other languages from it's time.
The Inter-County Connector intersects with the BWI Parkway about five miles away. Getting that highway built took fifty years, got hung up for years on environmental studies and the Federal Government withheld funding. The state house is dominated by Democrats and Hogan is a Republican. Oh, and the Feds won't approve it's construction into DC? I doubt this is going to get done with little more than a few utility permits. Good luck though.
The operational directive (linked below) lists ten Kaspersky branded products that are banned. It explicitly excludes Kaspersky code embedded in the products of other companies. If DHS had real concerns why would they allow any of those products on government networks? https://www.federalregister.go...
Let's put that statement in perspective. For 3 weeks Apple corporation could pay for:
+-- Wages and living expenses for 1.4 million active duty military personnel
+-- Wages for 1.3 million civilian employees of the defense department
+-- Wages for 575 thousand postal service employees
+-- Maintain all the interstate and national highways in the US
+-- Pay out the Social Security benefits owed to 62 million retirees
There are multiple standards sponsored by different stakeholders. I didn't care enough to try to parse out the details but I wouldn't call any of the names wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the era of Microsoft's own AV, there is no need for a third-party AV installed on Windows.
Not according to Microsoft. They say that Defender is intended as a fallback to provide some level of protection when no other antivirus is installed. It is not intended to provide full anti-malware protection.
It pisses me off that they almost never publish the number of the bill or how our representatives voted. The House Bill was #230. The Senate bill voted on last week was #34. Here are the votes:
House Bill 230 Democrats Not Voting: David Scott (GA), Bobby Rush (IL), David Price (NC), Louise Slaughter (NY)
Democrats Voting Yea: None
Democrats Voting Nay: All Others
Republicans Not Voting: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Thomas Rooney (FL), Michael “Mike” Simpson (ID), Robert Pittenger
(NC), Tom Marino (PA)
Republicans Voting Nay: None
Republicans Voting Yea: All Others
Senate Bill S.J. Res. 34 Democrats Not Voting: None
Democrats Voting Yea: None
Democrats Voting Nay: All others
Republicans Not Voting: Isakson (GA), Paul (KY)
Republicans Voting Nay: All others
Independents Not Voting: None
Independents Voting Yea: None
Independents Voting Nay: King (ME), Sanders (VT)
It's basic economics. They created a whole system to limit the supply and drive up the cost of maple syrup. What happens when the price of maple syrup goes up? The price of rum has to go up as well. Of course when the price of rum goes up your neighbourhood drunk can't afford it any more, so he switches to beer. That drives up the price of beer so the college student's can't afford it any more. So what happens when the dorm isn't properly lubricated? Sober college students study, get to bed, wake up in the morning and make to their exams on time, without a decent hangover. Now you've got all those young people passing their courses and graduating from University. How do we remedy this? You could break up the maple monopoly but there's a quicker and simpler solution. Hand out free beer.
I'm not going to address the non-criminal points you make. Those are character issues. I will address the one issue that is a matter of law:
Did Mike share top secret information over his personal email?
The reason she was never prosecuted was quite simple. She didn't actually break the law. The fact is that as best the FBI could determine, Hillary Clinton didn't knowingly share any secret information. If that were not the case you can be quite sure they would have prosecuted her after Trump was sworn in.
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Normally in procurement RFQ is the acronym for a Request for Quote. For a large contract like this vendors would be qualified with an RFI (Request for Information). When you actually bid you'd use a Request for Proposal (RFP). This is too large a contract to use quotes's on the primary contract.
This matters because RFI's are used early in the process. At those stages the agency may be able or willing to consider more creative approaches.
It kind of looks like a regular expression. Did Slashdot mangle it?
When LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice the latter was not being well maintained. Important bugs had been left unfixed for years, it was locked to Java and there wasn't much development happening. Since then the LO team has done a tremendous amount of work improving the underlying code. The result is a faster and more stable office platform.
OpenOffice burnt it's brand through neglect. Now LibreOffice is better known and it's earning a good reputation. However odd the name might be that fades away when people get used to it. I now see LO being installed side by side with MS Office in business environments and that was not happening with OpenOffice.
I don't know why LibreOffice defaults to using a different syntax than Excel. I'd have to go through all the development history to find out and I've got better things to do with my time. An AU in this thread noted that you can change your settings to use Excel syntax. I don't know why that post was modded down.
There are also two solutions to provided in your link. Change the exclamation mark to a period or import (rather than directly open) the excel file and save as ODS.
Progressives really like "hate speech" laws. It makes it easier to censor people, you know, just like what is happening in Europe.
Europeans have good reasons to see hate speech differently than we do in America. If Adolph Hitler had been muzzled early on millions of lives would have been saved.
Give an example of "hate speech" that trump posted.
Well, there was that one about threatening to nuke North Korea... Does that count? https://www.vanityfair.com/new...
The stickler on this is whether he was following company policy. Remember, they haven't cut off his access yet. It's likely therefore that he has not been given instructions to stop doing his job. Given that he's empowered to terminate accounts we can assume that doing so is within his job description. We also know that Donald Trump has repeatedly pushed the limits of Twitter's terms of service. Unless this person has been instructed otherwise, terminating the account could be entirely legal.
The real loser in this is likely to be the subcontracting company. I suspect that their contract with Twitter requires them to follow a procedure for terminating employees, and that they failed to do so.
With a lot of IT work it's hard to know how long a task should take. If a task takes 12 hours to finish instead of the 4 hours expected it helps to be able to look over someone's shoulder. If you know someone is working you're less likely to have unreasonable expectations. And it works both ways. It took me a while but I finally figured out that it's not to my benefit to work at home. If you want your work to be appreciated you need to be seen.
The negative comments I hear about VBA tend to come from people who either don't have personal experience or inherited badly built applications. VBA achieved early widespread use as an extension of Microsoft Access. Access projects were often slapped together by desktop power users who didn't understand database design and were not trained in programming. The results caused all sorts of headaches, particularly when the fundamental database structure was flawed. Additionally, the jet engine does not have the robustness of a proper relational database and is not well suited to multi-user applications. Professional programmers may use access to build a prototype but will move the database to a server before putting it into production. In reality, VBA is essentially VB6 tied into the office platform. It is a dated language but it is not inferior to other languages from it's time.
When Metro's Red Line started leaking it cost more to repair than it cost to build the entire system. And it's still leaking.
The Inter-County Connector intersects with the BWI Parkway about five miles away. Getting that highway built took fifty years, got hung up for years on environmental studies and the Federal Government withheld funding. The state house is dominated by Democrats and Hogan is a Republican. Oh, and the Feds won't approve it's construction into DC? I doubt this is going to get done with little more than a few utility permits. Good luck though.
It's not worth quibbling. My point is that these headlines are obnoxious.
Crap writing. Google doesn't recognize my pets. Google doesn't have pictures of my pets. Google doesn't know if I have pets.
Bringing new meaning to being slashdotted. Now at 101.5%
The operational directive (linked below) lists ten Kaspersky branded products that are banned. It explicitly excludes Kaspersky code embedded in the products of other companies. If DHS had real concerns why would they allow any of those products on government networks?
https://www.federalregister.go...
I'll deliver the videos when you pay me what I'm owed.
Yes, I actually read the article. I hang my head in shame.
Why would anyone cooperate with their prosecution?
They might be more inclined to cooperate with someone else's prosecutor.
Let's put that statement in perspective. For 3 weeks Apple corporation could pay for:
+-- Wages and living expenses for 1.4 million active duty military personnel
+-- Wages for 1.3 million civilian employees of the defense department
+-- Wages for 575 thousand postal service employees
+-- Maintain all the interstate and national highways in the US
+-- Pay out the Social Security benefits owed to 62 million retirees
There are multiple standards sponsored by different stakeholders. I didn't care enough to try to parse out the details but I wouldn't call any of the names wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the era of Microsoft's own AV, there is no need for a third-party AV installed on Windows.
Not according to Microsoft. They say that Defender is intended as a fallback to provide some level of protection when no other antivirus is installed. It is not intended to provide full anti-malware protection.
House Bill 230 is something else entirely...
Good catch. I didn't realize that resolutions and bills had different numbers.
It pisses me off that they almost never publish the number of the bill or how our representatives voted. The House Bill was #230. The Senate bill voted on last week was #34. Here are the votes:
House Bill 230
Democrats Not Voting: David Scott (GA), Bobby Rush (IL), David Price (NC), Louise Slaughter (NY)
Democrats Voting Yea: None
Democrats Voting Nay: All Others
Republicans Not Voting: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Thomas Rooney (FL), Michael “Mike” Simpson (ID), Robert Pittenger (NC), Tom Marino (PA)
Republicans Voting Nay: None
Republicans Voting Yea: All Others
Senate Bill S.J. Res. 34
Democrats Not Voting: None
Democrats Voting Yea: None
Democrats Voting Nay: All others
Republicans Not Voting: Isakson (GA), Paul (KY)
Republicans Voting Nay: All others
Independents Not Voting: None
Independents Voting Yea: None
Independents Voting Nay: King (ME), Sanders (VT)
It's basic economics. They created a whole system to limit the supply and drive up the cost of maple syrup. What happens when the price of maple syrup goes up? The price of rum has to go up as well. Of course when the price of rum goes up your neighbourhood drunk can't afford it any more, so he switches to beer. That drives up the price of beer so the college student's can't afford it any more. So what happens when the dorm isn't properly lubricated? Sober college students study, get to bed, wake up in the morning and make to their exams on time, without a decent hangover. Now you've got all those young people passing their courses and graduating from University. How do we remedy this? You could break up the maple monopoly but there's a quicker and simpler solution. Hand out free beer.
I'm not going to address the non-criminal points you make. Those are character issues. I will address the one issue that is a matter of law:
Did Mike share top secret information over his personal email?
The reason she was never prosecuted was quite simple. She didn't actually break the law. The fact is that as best the FBI could determine, Hillary Clinton didn't knowingly share any secret information. If that were not the case you can be quite sure they would have prosecuted her after Trump was sworn in.