OpenOffice is, by and large, more than sufficient for most users.
If you you going to place the "more than sufficient" conditional, you can say the same about Notepad or Wordpad for word processing.
I personally just love Excel and would not replace it for any other spreadsheet if I have the financial stance to do so (and I have OpenOffice in my home machines.)
Word is also a great word processor. A bit bloated (and thats being kind) but the spell shecking and proofing tools are the best out there. For "prettier" letters, though, I rather use Apple's Pages.
Access... hmmm... I am so past it... but then again I'm a professional SQL administrator. It has it's uses, I guess. I can say its light years ahead of OpenOffice's Base and dont think Apple offers an alternative for macs (then again nor does Microsoft.)
Powerpoint is easily replacable, though.
To be honest, the only reason I dont have Excel on every single computer I owe is the price and licensing. I have 3 desktops and 3 laptops at home alone. 2 of these are Windows PCs the others are Macs. It's either get Office family pack and install in just 3 machines, buy iWorks cheap and use on every Mac without headaches or legal issues, or get OpenOffice on every mac and PC. I still end up not using spreadsheets much out of the office, though, because I cant tolerate the crippled experience (in my opinion) that is Calc or the fashionable but cruncher unfriendly Numbers.
It also bothers me that, should I want Excel, I'm forced to buy all of office. I cant just buy Excel.
On the topic if the Microsoft App Store: I got to say, Microsoft needs a software store and it needs it 10 years ago. I still remember the first time I logged into Windows XP and saw something called "Windows Software" or "Windows Software Catalog". My brain went highwire thinking "Finally!!! An online solution where I can get software without worrying the apps may be the mallware infested stuff I risk myself to every time I download from Download.com!!!!" Big disapointed when I realized it was just a website to order snailmail copies of microsoft products.
A software store will heavily revitalize the windows experience in the desktop, just as it has done with the Mac OSX.
There are some issues with a very specific open source license and the Apple App store. All apps in the app store have a non-obtrusive DRM in them, this means you can’t hand someone a copy of the free app you downloaded.
Mind you, you are entirely free to give the link to someone for them to download entirely free of charge, just as you did, but a version of the GPL license specifically dictates you can’t block the user's ability to redistribute himself. Even if Apple did have the said DRM, they also don’t allow you to install software from alternate sources, so that also hinders a user's ability to redistribute.
So the question is: will the windows app store give developers a flag they can set to not include a DRM in the specific app? And will they allow (in tablets) to install software from other sources? As it stands now, the Windows Phone 7 store should not be compatible with these specific clauses either (even with the sanctioned jailbreak available.)
In Mars most living spaces are likely going to be underground, and glass can be easily produced by melting the ground. You can make some gorgeous and fashionable living spaces just with tick glass over rock walls. Metal can be used to spice up the design here and there. Rock itself can be used to design too, who knows how many colors of soil we can find to add to glass structures creating amazing looks.
Glass will likely become way more predominant in every day's life. I just worry about things like cabling isolation coating.
A) We can quit looking for life and start sending our real drillers? B) We can complain that fosil fuel burning is warming up Mars? C) We can bomb Mars?
If you think advertisers don’t care about your nationality, I think you don’t know anyone in the field.
Immigrants are heavily targeted by money transfer ad campaigns or international calling cards, under the statistically correct assumption that most wire money to their families heavily or plain simply call them extremely often. These services also tend to sometimes specialize to some countries, so just knowing you are an immigrant is not enough for agencies; they want to target immigrants from specific countries. They may also be targeted by agencies that specialize in green card processing, country specific shipping agencies, streaming video from specific countries, etc etc.
I say all this as the husband of an immigrant. Facebook ads seem very aware of her country of origin despite her not telling it where she is from. Most information Facebook collects on you is voluntary. Sometimes you volunteer it. Sometimes your friends and family do it for you. Very often the field does not have to be populated for them to know what is supposed to be there.
But I think we gone far enough in this tangent when the original posts in this specific thread were just jokes.
They collect hometown information. Unless you use a vague definition of the word, or decide to call hometown an adoptive town, you can get nationality with it.
Also, most people dont travel that much during their childhoods so a combination of friends and elementary/middle school data can be enough to guess most people's nationality.
Do not underestimate the accuracy of overly tracky websites.
"In unrelated news, Facebook tells India it will grandly give them all secret profile information on any indian national no matter what country they live in, they may even give them a few non indians to sweeten the deal."
Usually you keep the keyboard at the desk and dont take it with you when you "go mobile".
I am fond of cases that have built in keyboards, though. "Why bother?" I have an iPad for gaming mostly. Cant get Touch based Unreal Engine games like Infinity Blade anywhere else. And I also like to sometimes just type. The bluetooth case allows me to flip the keyboard away very easily, sometimes just remove the thing from the case entirely, while also giving me typing flexibility.
Thats called a "sugested retail price". Comic books do it too. The store can sell it at any price they want, though. However, if the store wants one of those contracts where the publisher will take books back if unsold, they may demand the sugested retail price be used unless otherwise authorized for liquidation purposes.
Next time you go to a Borders.... oh wait... next time you go to a B&B, you may see they put a their own price sticker over the printed price. They mostly repsect the print price, though.
While Samsung and a whole bunch of other companies have Android devices flying off the shelves, Dell seems unable to do the same. Curious and curiouser.
This a joke? According to the NPD, Samsung has only sold 192,000 tablets in the US (16% of a 1.2 million non apple tablet market.) For such a large country, buying so many ipads, I would say 192,000 is not exactly flying off the shelf.
Mind you, got to give it to Samsung that they at lest manage to sell that amount. Dell didnt even sell enough to show up in the top 5 list (http://www.npdgroup.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/pressreleases/pr_111122b.) IF Dell happens to be 6th at 8% that would mean they sold 96,000 tablets tops.
However, Apple makes so much money off of the App store that they could undoubtedly sell the hardware at a loss and still profit overall. They just don't need to - at least not at this point.
According to the Q3 earning reports, iTunes generates 5% of the profits, with the iPad hardware sales generating 21% . iTunes pfofits are about half music so lets be generous and say 2.5% of the company profits are app sales. Given 47% of the sales being iPhones, and asuming equal ratios, that means about 1.117% of the company profits are due to iPad app sales.
Selling the iPad at a loss would cut an insane amount of profit and generate nearly no extra income, not to mention that a lower price point encourages people with singier pockets to buy it, meaning the app sale percentage will likely go further down.
So apple does need to sell the iPad at a profit.
How can Dell, HP, Motorola, HTC compete in this scenario, when the only thing they can make money off of is the hardware?
Those companies may get a chance once Windows 8 comes out. If managed properly, it may fare much better than the phone offerings. Microsoft will have office for Windows 8 Metro. That alone will surely encourage many consumers that shy from tablets due to productivity concerns, a market Android Tablets does not cover.
Not sure if there is a name for: "we all buy the book from the same publisher and they charge all of us the same price, so we happen to sell it at the same price to the consumer. Why? Because we happen to have the same percentage commission rate."... Maybe there is a german word for that.
Because at the end of the day, the pretty thoughts of "the best shall win" are just fairy tales. The winner is not the best, but he who has more marketing power to make sure users see their browsers first.
Google spams Chrome promotions all over their search services. Microsoft makes sure your first taste of the internet is by using Internet Explorer. Apple users also happen to mostly use Safari for similar reasons.
Firefox is now surviving on momentum from the days Google would promote it, and slowly fading away in the minds of the common man.
Also, those 50 direct jobs are just that: direct jobs.
What about all hired companies for services? The grounds for this datacenter is HUGE. You think they have goats eating it to keep it short? They likely have paid a landscaping company that in turn had to hire people specifically to this.
Maintainance of the infrastructure, the same story. Painting, cleaning, etc. etc.
And I'm in an older crowd now...hell, many of them have been married for years, and are just now back on the dating scene...so, best to try to stay with 'clean' chicks...
Sure, you have to use one the first times or so with her till you get to know her history, and 'check things out' below.....but once done with that...
Your life. Good luck seeing with your eyes that HIV carrier who does not know her husband left her a fun divorce gift, HIV that is still too early to be found on a blood test.
It is a given fact that once you get wifi you will have internet everywhere, this will translate to porn everywhere, this will translate to constant.... excercise that will lower sperm count... so yes! Wifi causes infertility!
It wont go that far, BUT, had this happened in the US the phone owner would still be in jail, being interrogated and forced to confess about this failed terrorist bomming.
I just don’t get why they wanted to be acquired. They had a darn nice business there, making fun games and from all my understanding doing a darn good profit. Why pursue selling that off?
I understand if you are relaxing at a company picnic one day and being offered hundreds of millions of dollars and not being able to resist temptation. But from what I hear they actively pursued selling the business.
It is my understanding [based off pure guessing] that their working conditions have worked incredibly from a PR perspective, thanks to their new NDA and lawsuit weavers that employee families must sign when they are hired, get married, adopt kids or plainly have kids.
No matter how you feel about the iPhone, a carrier is at a huge competitive disadvantage if you don’t offer it.
Besides, T-Mobile has expressed in many occasions they want it.
Besides, it's not like they have to send the 4 billions to apple. But the money would cover their ability to buy the minimum stock Apple demands carrier buy from them.
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Talking of spell checkers.... ugh... forgot to run this through one...
OpenOffice is, by and large, more than sufficient for most users.
If you you going to place the "more than sufficient" conditional, you can say the same about Notepad or Wordpad for word processing.
I personally just love Excel and would not replace it for any other spreadsheet if I have the financial stance to do so (and I have OpenOffice in my home machines.)
Word is also a great word processor. A bit bloated (and thats being kind) but the spell shecking and proofing tools are the best out there. For "prettier" letters, though, I rather use Apple's Pages.
Access... hmmm... I am so past it... but then again I'm a professional SQL administrator. It has it's uses, I guess. I can say its light years ahead of OpenOffice's Base and dont think Apple offers an alternative for macs (then again nor does Microsoft.)
Powerpoint is easily replacable, though.
To be honest, the only reason I dont have Excel on every single computer I owe is the price and licensing. I have 3 desktops and 3 laptops at home alone. 2 of these are Windows PCs the others are Macs. It's either get Office family pack and install in just 3 machines, buy iWorks cheap and use on every Mac without headaches or legal issues, or get OpenOffice on every mac and PC. I still end up not using spreadsheets much out of the office, though, because I cant tolerate the crippled experience (in my opinion) that is Calc or the fashionable but cruncher unfriendly Numbers.
It also bothers me that, should I want Excel, I'm forced to buy all of office. I cant just buy Excel.
On the topic if the Microsoft App Store: I got to say, Microsoft needs a software store and it needs it 10 years ago. I still remember the first time I logged into Windows XP and saw something called "Windows Software" or "Windows Software Catalog". My brain went highwire thinking "Finally!!! An online solution where I can get software without worrying the apps may be the mallware infested stuff I risk myself to every time I download from Download.com!!!!" Big disapointed when I realized it was just a website to order snailmail copies of microsoft products.
A software store will heavily revitalize the windows experience in the desktop, just as it has done with the Mac OSX.
Next time you post, click on Options, and from the "Comment Post Mode" drop down select "Plain Old Text"
There are some issues with a very specific open source license and the Apple App store. All apps in the app store have a non-obtrusive DRM in them, this means you can’t hand someone a copy of the free app you downloaded.
Mind you, you are entirely free to give the link to someone for them to download entirely free of charge, just as you did, but a version of the GPL license specifically dictates you can’t block the user's ability to redistribute himself. Even if Apple did have the said DRM, they also don’t allow you to install software from alternate sources, so that also hinders a user's ability to redistribute.
So the question is: will the windows app store give developers a flag they can set to not include a DRM in the specific app? And will they allow (in tablets) to install software from other sources? As it stands now, the Windows Phone 7 store should not be compatible with these specific clauses either (even with the sanctioned jailbreak available.)
In Mars most living spaces are likely going to be underground, and glass can be easily produced by melting the ground. You can make some gorgeous and fashionable living spaces just with tick glass over rock walls. Metal can be used to spice up the design here and there. Rock itself can be used to design too, who knows how many colors of soil we can find to add to glass structures creating amazing looks.
Glass will likely become way more predominant in every day's life. I just worry about things like cabling isolation coating.
If we hit oil, does that means:
A) We can quit looking for life and start sending our real drillers?
B) We can complain that fosil fuel burning is warming up Mars?
C) We can bomb Mars?
Dont want them kids saying the virus ate their homework!
If you think advertisers don’t care about your nationality, I think you don’t know anyone in the field.
Immigrants are heavily targeted by money transfer ad campaigns or international calling cards, under the statistically correct assumption that most wire money to their families heavily or plain simply call them extremely often. These services also tend to sometimes specialize to some countries, so just knowing you are an immigrant is not enough for agencies; they want to target immigrants from specific countries. They may also be targeted by agencies that specialize in green card processing, country specific shipping agencies, streaming video from specific countries, etc etc.
I say all this as the husband of an immigrant. Facebook ads seem very aware of her country of origin despite her not telling it where she is from. Most information Facebook collects on you is voluntary. Sometimes you volunteer it. Sometimes your friends and family do it for you. Very often the field does not have to be populated for them to know what is supposed to be there.
But I think we gone far enough in this tangent when the original posts in this specific thread were just jokes.
They collect hometown information. Unless you use a vague definition of the word, or decide to call hometown an adoptive town, you can get nationality with it.
Also, most people dont travel that much during their childhoods so a combination of friends and elementary/middle school data can be enough to guess most people's nationality.
Do not underestimate the accuracy of overly tracky websites.
"In unrelated news, Facebook tells India it will grandly give them all secret profile information on any indian national no matter what country they live in, they may even give them a few non indians to sweeten the deal."
Usually you keep the keyboard at the desk and dont take it with you when you "go mobile".
I am fond of cases that have built in keyboards, though. "Why bother?" I have an iPad for gaming mostly. Cant get Touch based Unreal Engine games like Infinity Blade anywhere else. And I also like to sometimes just type. The bluetooth case allows me to flip the keyboard away very easily, sometimes just remove the thing from the case entirely, while also giving me typing flexibility.
Thats called a "sugested retail price". Comic books do it too. The store can sell it at any price they want, though. However, if the store wants one of those contracts where the publisher will take books back if unsold, they may demand the sugested retail price be used unless otherwise authorized for liquidation purposes.
Next time you go to a Borders.... oh wait... next time you go to a B&B, you may see they put a their own price sticker over the printed price. They mostly repsect the print price, though.
While Samsung and a whole bunch of other companies have Android devices flying off the shelves, Dell seems unable to do the same. Curious and curiouser.
This a joke? According to the NPD, Samsung has only sold 192,000 tablets in the US (16% of a 1.2 million non apple tablet market.) For such a large country, buying so many ipads, I would say 192,000 is not exactly flying off the shelf.
Mind you, got to give it to Samsung that they at lest manage to sell that amount. Dell didnt even sell enough to show up in the top 5 list (http://www.npdgroup.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/pressreleases/pr_111122b.) IF Dell happens to be 6th at 8% that would mean they sold 96,000 tablets tops.
However, Apple makes so much money off of the App store that they could undoubtedly sell the hardware at a loss and still profit overall. They just don't need to - at least not at this point.
According to the Q3 earning reports, iTunes generates 5% of the profits, with the iPad hardware sales generating 21% . iTunes pfofits are about half music so lets be generous and say 2.5% of the company profits are app sales. Given 47% of the sales being iPhones, and asuming equal ratios, that means about 1.117% of the company profits are due to iPad app sales.
Selling the iPad at a loss would cut an insane amount of profit and generate nearly no extra income, not to mention that a lower price point encourages people with singier pockets to buy it, meaning the app sale percentage will likely go further down.
So apple does need to sell the iPad at a profit.
How can Dell, HP, Motorola, HTC compete in this scenario, when the only thing they can make money off of is the hardware?
Those companies may get a chance once Windows 8 comes out. If managed properly, it may fare much better than the phone offerings. Microsoft will have office for Windows 8 Metro. That alone will surely encourage many consumers that shy from tablets due to productivity concerns, a market Android Tablets does not cover.
Not sure if there is a name for: "we all buy the book from the same publisher and they charge all of us the same price, so we happen to sell it at the same price to the consumer. Why? Because we happen to have the same percentage commission rate." ... Maybe there is a german word for that.
Now why people are still using IE is beyond me.
Because at the end of the day, the pretty thoughts of "the best shall win" are just fairy tales. The winner is not the best, but he who has more marketing power to make sure users see their browsers first.
Google spams Chrome promotions all over their search services.
Microsoft makes sure your first taste of the internet is by using Internet Explorer.
Apple users also happen to mostly use Safari for similar reasons.
Firefox is now surviving on momentum from the days Google would promote it, and slowly fading away in the minds of the common man.
Free market = richest one wins.
Also, those 50 direct jobs are just that: direct jobs.
What about all hired companies for services? The grounds for this datacenter is HUGE. You think they have goats eating it to keep it short? They likely have paid a landscaping company that in turn had to hire people specifically to this.
Maintainance of the infrastructure, the same story. Painting, cleaning, etc. etc.
A shot will clear up most of those...
Good luck getting a shot for HIV or Herpes.
And I'm in an older crowd now...hell, many of them have been married for years, and are just now back on the dating scene...so, best to try to stay with 'clean' chicks...
Sure, you have to use one the first times or so with her till you get to know her history, and 'check things out' below.....but once done with that...
Your life. Good luck seeing with your eyes that HIV carrier who does not know her husband left her a fun divorce gift, HIV that is still too early to be found on a blood test.
It is a given fact that once you get wifi you will have internet everywhere, this will translate to porn everywhere, this will translate to constant.... excercise that will lower sperm count... so yes! Wifi causes infertility!
Go for it, it's not like syphilis, gonorhea, chlamydia, genital warts, genital herpes and HIV/AIDS are something you should worry about.
As for your "no sensation" problem... perhaps you need to see a doctor anyways or stop using leather condoms.
It wont go that far, BUT, had this happened in the US the phone owner would still be in jail, being interrogated and forced to confess about this failed terrorist bomming.
I just don’t get why they wanted to be acquired. They had a darn nice business there, making fun games and from all my understanding doing a darn good profit. Why pursue selling that off?
I understand if you are relaxing at a company picnic one day and being offered hundreds of millions of dollars and not being able to resist temptation. But from what I hear they actively pursued selling the business.
It is my understanding [based off pure guessing] that their working conditions have worked incredibly from a PR perspective, thanks to their new NDA and lawsuit weavers that employee families must sign when they are hired, get married, adopt kids or plainly have kids.
You would also be risking their lives vaccinating them. There _are_ risks involved.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/19/us-government-concedes-hep-b-vaccine-causes-systemic-lupus-erythematosus.aspx
Great! More ammo for syphilitic brains to justify risking their children to medieval health risks!!!
No matter how you feel about the iPhone, a carrier is at a huge competitive disadvantage if you don’t offer it.
Besides, T-Mobile has expressed in many occasions they want it.
Besides, it's not like they have to send the 4 billions to apple. But the money would cover their ability to buy the minimum stock Apple demands carrier buy from them.