More likely is that they wanted to have just one company to worry about calling when something shits the bed. And the day they made that decision, that "Dell, Dude" guy was looking like the right solution.
Computers are a commodity. Sure, you can hire competent people to fix them when things go wrong, but isn't it cheaper to hire someone just good enough to talk to Dell tech support? Hell they don't even have to be smart enough to ascertain the brand; just tell them "Call this number when their computer screws up. If everyone's is doing it - email to "All Corporate Offices" saying the we are experiencing 'opportunities with our network'. "
At least that what happens when our Dells start freaking out. And are you really going to spend your job doing IT's job for them? Not worth your time.
Oh, and I just checked, apparently Appleworks (formerly Clarisworks, which makes it sound like a true piece of garbage) has no such limit.
=NUMTOBASE(INT(AVERAGE(ACOS(SIN(ATAN((SIGN(ABS(A SI N(A4*A2/PI()))))))),DEGREES(A4))),16)
It works fine. And I found no help on "function nesting" On the other hand, let's see what Excel help says on the topic:
Nesting level limits A formula can contain up to seven levels of nested functions. When Function B is used as an argument in Function A, Function B is a second-level function. For instance, the AVERAGE function and the SUM function in Figure 1 are both second-level functions because they are arguments of the IF function. A function nested within the AVERAGE function would be a third-level function, and so on.
so cool, there's just no equivalent to the versatility of arbitrary limits on my productivity.
"There's no equivalent for the versatility of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint®."
Yes, all bow before Excel's revolutionary SEVEN layers of function nesting, how unlucky is that? Of course, I'm quite sure there can't be any open-source thingy that beats it, hell it's Office, it's remarkably versatile...there's "no equivalent".
the only benchmark I need is that if I sit down at a computer to do a task I find that the time to complete it is less on my mac. I know that my iMac-600(G3) will get smoked by a P4 on mp3 encoding or what have you, but that's of no concern. when forced to, sure i crawl to a win2000 box at school and stare at the happy little square-ish everything and clunk through the worst gui ever.
and besides, steve's happyuser.app keeps me, well happy
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I didn't get interested in anything other than intoxication until later in life than most of these "kids" so now I'm a 25yr old with a couple of years of school still ahead. Should I just pick another field to work in rather than be snubbed after spending all that time/money in college?
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Am I the only one who saw the "35nm" at the bottom of the flight plan (http://space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_ display.php?pic=040927_ss1_flight_02.jpg&cap=The+f light+plan+for+SpaceShipOne.+Credit%3A+Scaled+Comp osites%2C+LLC) ...I realize I probably am..
and thought - Holy fsck! And they're promising to land within 35 nanometers of the launch location, talk about precision!
More likely is that they wanted to have just one company to worry about calling when something shits the bed. And the day they made that decision, that "Dell, Dude" guy was looking like the right solution.
Computers are a commodity. Sure, you can hire competent people to fix them when things go wrong, but isn't it cheaper to hire someone just good enough to talk to Dell tech support? Hell they don't even have to be smart enough to ascertain the brand; just tell them "Call this number when their computer screws up. If everyone's is doing it - email to "All Corporate Offices" saying the we are experiencing 'opportunities with our network'. "
At least that what happens when our Dells start freaking out. And are you really going to spend your job doing IT's job for them? Not worth your time.
Oh, and I just checked, apparently Appleworks (formerly Clarisworks, which makes it sound like a true piece of garbage) has no such limit.
A SI N(A4*A2/PI()))))))),DEGREES(A4))),16)
=NUMTOBASE(INT(AVERAGE(ACOS(SIN(ATAN((SIGN(ABS(
It works fine. And I found no help on "function nesting"
On the other hand, let's see what Excel help says on the topic:
Nesting level limits A formula can contain up to seven levels of nested functions. When Function B is used as an argument in Function A, Function B is a second-level function. For instance, the AVERAGE function and the SUM function in Figure 1 are both second-level functions because they are arguments of the IF function. A function nested within the AVERAGE function would be a third-level function, and so on.
so cool, there's just no equivalent to the versatility of arbitrary limits on my productivity.
I will quit venting now.
"There's no equivalent for the versatility of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint®."
Yes, all bow before Excel's revolutionary SEVEN layers of function nesting, how unlucky is that? Of course, I'm quite sure there can't be any open-source thingy that beats it, hell it's Office, it's remarkably versatile...there's "no equivalent".
the only benchmark I need is that if I sit down at a computer to do a task I find that the time to complete it is less on my mac. I know that my iMac-600(G3) will get smoked by a P4 on mp3 encoding or what have you, but that's of no concern. when forced to, sure i crawl to a win2000 box at school and stare at the happy little square-ish everything and clunk through the worst gui ever. and besides, steve's happyuser.app keeps me, well happy
I didn't get interested in anything other than intoxication until later in life than most of these "kids" so now I'm a 25yr old with a couple of years of school still ahead. Should I just pick another field to work in rather than be snubbed after spending all that time/money in college?
i just hope that someday something will run better than 'painfully slow' on my tnt