The bizarre thing is that Outlook really isn't very good.
I tried--really, seriously tried--to use Thunderbird+Lightning. I gave it a chance, accepted its limitations, used it as my sole email/calendar solution for 2 years. But I've gone back to Outlook because its integration is so much better, and it doesn't make you choose between running a crashprone beta for a decent feature set and having some pretty severe shortcomings. There are a few things Thunderbird did better: its LDAP client is superior, for example. But overall it was just too buggy and the calendar/task system just wasn't reliable, especially in terms of email integration. And many aspects of the Lightning UI are braindead from a design pov.
For some values of {changed|significantly|Office|Windows|shit}. Have you tried using pre-Windows versions of Word? Windows 1.0/3.1/95? There were significant changes (for example, Unicode support is a significant development as is, oh, I dunno, multitasking.
No, they say they will do no evil, that's different. Actually, that slogan makes me think they are evil and they're just trying to restrain their natural tendencies. Who other than an alcoholic has to publicly say, "I will not drink"?
Actually Arabic (and Persian, using almost the same alphabet) isn't the only such case; there are lots of complicated issues with S Asian and SE Asian scripts (not to mention Mongolian, which like Arabic has initial, medial and final forms--but is, properly, written vertically).
Poor to fair results with geolocation for me. From a wired connection it put me in Austin TX. I'm in upstate NY. From a wireless connection on campus it gave a neighborhood-level location and from my home AP it shows my city with a circle about 10 miles in radius (I'm within it). Maybe this will get more accurate over time as more data goes into the system...
I just got the email about this yesterday. It's the third time a university I've been associated with has had a major data leak (UCLA, Stanford, Cornell). The upside is that I've had free credit monitoring for the past few years!
Ugg was very successful as a name for selling boots, and a blech is handy when you want warm food on Shabbas. Though why you'd want those names for a codec I don't know.
Actually your plan is bass-ackwards. If the gubmint were to ban all resale of currency above its face value, the IRS would have NO grounds for asserting tax evasion in a case like this, since the coins in question could not be exchanged for a greater value in other specie. But precisely because there IS no rule against it (and indeed the mint sells gold coins well above their face value), the IRS does have a case.
And the issue of defacement/modification is actually a red herring. Say I had a bill that had great historic value -- it was used to buy Steve Jobs' first soldering iron or something, and I could prove it by the serial number -- it could be worth far more than its face value without any alteration. If I buy that bill on eBay for $10,000 and pay my employee with it, I think I've paid my employee far more than the $5 face value, and the IRS is right to treat it on the basis of its market value.
Actually that's false. For TAX purposes you may only need the past 7 years of data, but you absolutely need it for other purposes. For example, retirement funds may be based on how long someone's been employed at an institution. My employer recently offered a buyout to staff who'd been working there for over 25 years -- they could only perform the necessary query and identify the appropriate people if all those records were in the system. You also need the old information because people can be hired under old contracts and rules, and you need to know what those were. Tax isn't the only issue.
Typically, it's not the same people running the administration as teaching the courses and conducting the research. The faculty may advise (basically, serve on a committee), but other administrators will be doing all the back-of-the-house stuff. So incompetent administration might be a reason not to go there, but it is not diagnostic of the quality of the CS faculty.
Don't forget, in an organization the size of a state university, you need to do a massive amount of training. Hundreds, probably thousands of administrative and clerical staff will need to be retrained. That means (a) you probably need to add to your estimate of how many staff are needed for the project and (b) there is a cost across the whole institution in terms of lost productivity during the transition (both people away getting trained and lower efficiency as they start using the new system).
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The bizarre thing is that Outlook really isn't very good.
I tried--really, seriously tried--to use Thunderbird+Lightning. I gave it a chance, accepted its limitations, used it as my sole email/calendar solution for 2 years. But I've gone back to Outlook because its integration is so much better, and it doesn't make you choose between running a crashprone beta for a decent feature set and having some pretty severe shortcomings. There are a few things Thunderbird did better: its LDAP client is superior, for example. But overall it was just too buggy and the calendar/task system just wasn't reliable, especially in terms of email integration. And many aspects of the Lightning UI are braindead from a design pov.
For some values of {changed|significantly|Office|Windows|shit}. Have you tried using pre-Windows versions of Word? Windows 1.0/3.1/95? There were significant changes (for example, Unicode support is a significant development as is, oh, I dunno, multitasking.
You know what I want? A tag based filesystem.
You're it. No touchbacks.
No, they say they will do no evil, that's different. Actually, that slogan makes me think they are evil and they're just trying to restrain their natural tendencies. Who other than an alcoholic has to publicly say, "I will not drink"?
IWhat games are kids supposed to create? It's a tool without a purpose.
And the purpose of Logo was.....?
An ATM machine is an "at the moment" machine; it could become something other than a machine at any instant.
Actually Arabic (and Persian, using almost the same alphabet) isn't the only such case; there are lots of complicated issues with S Asian and SE Asian scripts (not to mention Mongolian, which like Arabic has initial, medial and final forms--but is, properly, written vertically).
Sunglasses will be considered a DMCA violation.
Hate to break it to you but your mother was inducted into the mile-high club by the Montgolfier brothers.
Bring your own sky.
Did it get towed away by a sorry lorry?
Actually I think the better punishment would be to require him to stick to this system for the rest of his life, for everything he ever writes.
How did you handle footnotes? Page numbers?
Poor to fair results with geolocation for me. From a wired connection it put me in Austin TX. I'm in upstate NY. From a wireless connection on campus it gave a neighborhood-level location and from my home AP it shows my city with a circle about 10 miles in radius (I'm within it). Maybe this will get more accurate over time as more data goes into the system...
Remind me again how you can filter the Yellow Pages restaurant section for barbecue places in a five block radius of your current location...
You really make me wish I had mod points today.
Remind me how many make return trips to space...
I just got the email about this yesterday. It's the third time a university I've been associated with has had a major data leak (UCLA, Stanford, Cornell). The upside is that I've had free credit monitoring for the past few years!
Ugg was very successful as a name for selling boots, and a blech is handy when you want warm food on Shabbas. Though why you'd want those names for a codec I don't know.
Actually your plan is bass-ackwards. If the gubmint were to ban all resale of currency above its face value, the IRS would have NO grounds for asserting tax evasion in a case like this, since the coins in question could not be exchanged for a greater value in other specie. But precisely because there IS no rule against it (and indeed the mint sells gold coins well above their face value), the IRS does have a case.
And the issue of defacement/modification is actually a red herring. Say I had a bill that had great historic value -- it was used to buy Steve Jobs' first soldering iron or something, and I could prove it by the serial number -- it could be worth far more than its face value without any alteration. If I buy that bill on eBay for $10,000 and pay my employee with it, I think I've paid my employee far more than the $5 face value, and the IRS is right to treat it on the basis of its market value.
They'll have to work for free under that system--the system you'd end up with won't be able to send anyone a paycheck.
Actually that's false. For TAX purposes you may only need the past 7 years of data, but you absolutely need it for other purposes. For example, retirement funds may be based on how long someone's been employed at an institution. My employer recently offered a buyout to staff who'd been working there for over 25 years -- they could only perform the necessary query and identify the appropriate people if all those records were in the system. You also need the old information because people can be hired under old contracts and rules, and you need to know what those were. Tax isn't the only issue.
Typically, it's not the same people running the administration as teaching the courses and conducting the research. The faculty may advise (basically, serve on a committee), but other administrators will be doing all the back-of-the-house stuff. So incompetent administration might be a reason not to go there, but it is not diagnostic of the quality of the CS faculty.
Don't forget, in an organization the size of a state university, you need to do a massive amount of training. Hundreds, probably thousands of administrative and clerical staff will need to be retrained. That means (a) you probably need to add to your estimate of how many staff are needed for the project and (b) there is a cost across the whole institution in terms of lost productivity during the transition (both people away getting trained and lower efficiency as they start using the new system).