Hmm, I have already been using Office 2016 for a few weeks.
That's Softmaker Office 2016 (www.softmaker.com) however, which to me is like an updated Microsoft Office 2003. I don't want to start a flamewar but I hate ribbons. Softmaker gives me regular menus and toolbars and is exceedingly compatible with the Microsoft Office files.
I've found, since as far back as Softmaker 2008, that Softmaker makes a much more stable, higher performance "Office Clone" than Open/Libre Office or anyone else.
Softmaker even makes their previous version Free to use (for personal or business use): http://www.freeoffice.com/en/
Wouldn't it make more sense to have users be the testers? The ones who use the products all freakin' day long? What do IT people know about how the product is used by the masses?
Oh wait. Microsoft. They don't care what the consumers really want. They want to look cool. Double fail.
Because IT professionals are typically geeks that will mess with betas and put up with crashes and stuff. They would want betas to pass such higher level stability testing before giving it to users.
No, it's apparently compatible with Windows 7 or later. Remember, Office is targeted at business, and most businesses are still using Windows 7, and will be for a considerable time to come.
Indeed. As a datapoint from the past, XP mainstream support ended April 14, 2009. Office 2010 was released June 15, 2010 and still supported Windows XP. XP was so wildly popular in businesses at the time, it would be stupid to not support XP on Office 2010.
I like Office 2010. I actually like Ribbon, once getting over the learning curve. I've used some third party companies that implement Ribbon (eg: AutoCAD) that I found terrible.
In addition, I love how Excel 2007+ handles filters. Much easier to import data, and easily filter columns.
For me I haven't upgraded past Office 2010 for two reasons: 1) We use 2010 at work, so home-work consistency is a consideration 2) Microsoft is pushing subscription based 365 so hard, they limit some features in 2013, but not 365.
Probably because the customers don't want keygens to flag unless there's an actual Trojan?
For me this is true of all security software. Why do they flag keygens if there isn't an actual Trojan? It's supposed to be security software, not anti-piracy software.
This kid here just gives me the impression of a tool/brat/hipster and makes me annoyed before I even watch the video.
I was more distracted by the person on the left with the hipster haircut flipping their hair around, looking out the window, looking at the camera, etc. Then the guy that came in with the French press, started untangling his headphones, twirled around in his chair, poured coffee out of the french press.
People have said this for decades, hasn't happened yet.
Laptops and tablets are not what will kill the desktop. Laptops are slower, easier to steal or damage, harder/costlier to repair, have less storage, and are HORRIBLE for ergonomics. Any business swapping out desktops for laptops are idiots who haven't done the ROI. Tablets aren't any better.
Laptops are VERY popular in businesses. One reason is mobility: the ability to take the machine on a business trip or home to work (which companies like because they can get more free work from workers).
I have a Thinkpad T440 at work. Yes to work right on the machine wouldn't be good ergonomically, which is why I have 2x 23" monitors, and an external keyboard/mouse set, so at the office it's no different than a desktop. But I can easily undock the machine to take on a business trip.
Heck with Windows 7 you can just not activate and it goes into Winzip "You're on day 4053 of your 30 day trial" mode, and annoys you every boot, but otherwise functions.
All versions XP- 8.1 have been successfully "cracked"
There was the pilot who pulled off the amazing landing in the Hudson a few years ago. He was a rock star.
But, yes, I used to know people who did aircraft maintenance... and almost universally they sneered at the notion of a "water landing". The floating seat cushions were affectionately referred to as "crash debris locators".
I think more of Swissair 111 when I think "water landing". As a general rule, it's not considered something you'd want to be around for.
1549 was an intentional, controlled (the flight control surfaces worked) landing on the water.
Swissair hit the water uncontrolled, far faster than a reasonable landing speed.
A hangglider instructor once told me the exact opposite. He experimented with 3d simulators and abandoned them because after the use of the simulator, the pupils took twice as long to learn how to fly as the pupils who never used the simulator.
Basic flying skills are taught hands on on real aircraft (eg: C-172), developing up to aircraft like Piper Seminole for multi-engine certification. Lots of time is spent flying these aircraft before ever being in the airline industry.
Where Simulators are a big help in the airline industry, to experienced pilots that know how to fly a plane, is: -Cost: Operating an empty 737 or A330 for training purposes only would be prohibitively expensive. Simulators allow more crew to get training at lower cost. -Procedure based training: Drilling over and over checklists. Checklists for normal operation, checklists for emergencies (eg: engine failure). By simulating these in the safety of a simulator, with a cockpit laid out exactly like the real plane (Not VR helmet, and not Microsoft Flight Sim with a keyboard), pilots will already be familiar with the scenario if faced with it in real life, and know where to reach for controls.
Wouldn't surprise me if they tried to sue. Note she has an ISS pin instead of Star fleet emblem, so I guess it's different enough. Somehow though I'm reminded of the episode "Live Fast and Prosper"
I know as an anti-theft "feature", some makes have coding on the radio making it impossible to replace with another OEM radio.
Here's another one: Someone I know accidentally set off the airbags in their car (no collision). They replaced the bags, but the air bag light was still on. Toyota couldn't simply "reset the fault" and wanted to sell him a whole new air bag computer ($$$). He found some online outfit that will reset the computer.
Actually, it's more like what Apple did 16 years ago, since it's natural handwriting recognition, and the Palm required you to use a special alphabet.
The original palm pilot is 18 years old, and the original Newton is 22 years old.
Though Palm required you to learn a modified alphabet in the form of Graffiti, it had simpler strokes that were faster to enter, and it allowed more differentiation between characters by the device, and higher accuracy.
Then Graffiti 2 came out, which sucked, but was due to patent problems.
Actually AMD defined the 64 bit extensions to the 32 bit x86 architecture, and Intel had to follow and is letting the Itanic sink. Of course Intel does not even remotely admit it (and even Linus ranted on this fact in a mail a decade or so ago), but they have still not come over the NIH syndrome that it caused them.
That was the brief window that AMD had the upper hand. On the processor architecture side, Intel was splitting resources between hoping non-backward compatible Itanium was the future, and the disaster known as Netburst in the Pentium 4. Netburst had terrible performance, too high power consumption, but they were able to claim higher Ghz. All Intel had was name recognition, but technologically AMD was leading with the K7 and K8, and on this they were able to launch 64 bit. Even though it'd be the better part of 6 years before 64 bit really caught on, it was backwards compatible so it didn't cost anything to have but not use.
Intel only got ahead when a small group in Israel threw the Pentium 4 in the garbage, and started back at the Pentium III to design the Pentium M as an efficient mobile processor (which ushered in the confusing line of Centrino mobile platforms, that had Pentium M, Intel chipset, and Intel Wifi, not an actual Centrino processor). Intel eventually threw the Pentium 4 wholesale in the garbage, and expanded on Pentium M to form Core/ Core 2, and then from there i3/5/7 family. The rest is history.
I like to root for AMD as the underdog. When I bought my laptop 8 years ago, though perhaps not as good on battery, my AMD was best bang for the buck, and the low end graphics it had blew away Intel's junk i945. Sadly last year when I went to spec a new desktop, I wanted to want AMD, but Intel simply blew it away with performance. On normal desktop functions I feel single thread performance plays a major part in the CPU bottle neck. With a quad core, additional execution units are going to give marginal incremental improvements if you're not running a highly parallel workload. My i5-4690 stood out as the obvious choice.
AMD was riding high when Intel made a major mis-step with Pentium 4, but those days are long behind them, and they seem to be circling the drain. Spinning off, outsourcing, always behind on Fab technology, and a fraction of the R&D budget of Intel it's hard to compete.
Does anyone remember why they switched to Google for all of their internet searches? I do: Lycos, Altavista, and others had become bloated, ad-laden, pieces of crap, while google.com was a plain white page with nothing but a text box, a search button, and the google logo (the search also gave superior results).
They fucked that one up too. Back then Altavista, etc searched by default with boolean OR, so typing more keywords resulted in vaguer results unless you added a "+" in front of each word for Boolean AND. When google came out the default was boolean AND.
Some time in the past couple years they went to a fuzzy logic boolean OR / synonyms of words you typed. You could force the AND for your exact word with a "+". They removed that and now you have to put each word in quotes to ensure it only looks up exactly the words you type.
GOD dammit you pesky user! You're not the target user! We're targeting some mystical professional Photoshop convert that doesn't care about CMYK, even though all of our users are regular home users that are FOSS evangelizers, and encourage their friends and family to use it.
For Windows at least, I find Paint.NET to be a very good Free (as in Beer) image editor. Much prefer to The Gimp. PhotoFiltre is a Free for home user only program that's ok as well.
Interestingly at our fairly conservative company, The Gimp (even with the name) and Paint.NET are both available as downloads through the SCCM repository on Windows machines. I think to avoid having people request Photoshop.
6 years ago I went to a speech given by Richard Stallman. The very first question someone asked was about the status of Hurd. He sighed, then proceeded to answer
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LibreOffice being the only viable alternative is a good reason just to use Word right off the bat.
Softmaker office
And their previous version (for free, even for business)
Gives Open/Libre Office a good run for their money.
Hmm, I have already been using Office 2016 for a few weeks.
That's Softmaker Office 2016 (www.softmaker.com) however, which to me is like an updated Microsoft Office 2003. I don't want to start a flamewar but I hate ribbons. Softmaker gives me regular menus and toolbars and is exceedingly compatible with the Microsoft Office files.
I've found, since as far back as Softmaker 2008, that Softmaker makes a much more stable, higher performance "Office Clone" than Open/Libre Office or anyone else.
Softmaker even makes their previous version Free to use (for personal or business use): http://www.freeoffice.com/en/
Wouldn't it make more sense to have users be the testers? The ones who use the products all freakin' day long? What do IT people know about how the product is used by the masses?
Oh wait. Microsoft. They don't care what the consumers really want. They want to look cool. Double fail.
Because IT professionals are typically geeks that will mess with betas and put up with crashes and stuff. They would want betas to pass such higher level stability testing before giving it to users.
No, it's apparently compatible with Windows 7 or later. Remember, Office is targeted at business, and most businesses are still using Windows 7, and will be for a considerable time to come.
Indeed. As a datapoint from the past, XP mainstream support ended April 14, 2009. Office 2010 was released June 15, 2010 and still supported Windows XP. XP was so wildly popular in businesses at the time, it would be stupid to not support XP on Office 2010.
I like Office 2010. I actually like Ribbon, once getting over the learning curve. I've used some third party companies that implement Ribbon (eg: AutoCAD) that I found terrible.
In addition, I love how Excel 2007+ handles filters. Much easier to import data, and easily filter columns.
For me I haven't upgraded past Office 2010 for two reasons:
1) We use 2010 at work, so home-work consistency is a consideration
2) Microsoft is pushing subscription based 365 so hard, they limit some features in 2013, but not 365.
Probably because the customers don't want keygens to flag unless there's an actual Trojan?
For me this is true of all security software. Why do they flag keygens if there isn't an actual Trojan? It's supposed to be security software, not anti-piracy software.
This kid here just gives me the impression of a tool/brat/hipster and makes me annoyed before I even watch the video.
I was more distracted by the person on the left with the hipster haircut flipping their hair around, looking out the window, looking at the camera, etc. Then the guy that came in with the French press, started untangling his headphones, twirled around in his chair, poured coffee out of the french press.
especially since it doesn't have a camera. I use my camera all the time and think not including that will come back to haunt them.
They need to hold back on some feature so they can have some reason to release the Apple Watch 2. Just like the original iPad.
Just like how Open SSL would be a core functionality for many servers, yet there there are only 11 developers working on it.
People have said this for decades, hasn't happened yet.
Laptops and tablets are not what will kill the desktop. Laptops are slower, easier to steal or damage, harder/costlier to repair, have less storage, and are HORRIBLE for ergonomics. Any business swapping out desktops for laptops are idiots who haven't done the ROI. Tablets aren't any better.
Laptops are VERY popular in businesses. One reason is mobility: the ability to take the machine on a business trip or home to work (which companies like because they can get more free work from workers).
I have a Thinkpad T440 at work. Yes to work right on the machine wouldn't be good ergonomically, which is why I have 2x 23" monitors, and an external keyboard/mouse set, so at the office it's no different than a desktop. But I can easily undock the machine to take on a business trip.
Heck with Windows 7 you can just not activate and it goes into Winzip "You're on day 4053 of your 30 day trial" mode, and annoys you every boot, but otherwise functions.
All versions XP- 8.1 have been successfully "cracked"
Does this mean the current Pentiums you occasionally see are 22 year old chips? And the current Celerons are 17 years old?
There was the pilot who pulled off the amazing landing in the Hudson a few years ago. He was a rock star.
But, yes, I used to know people who did aircraft maintenance ... and almost universally they sneered at the notion of a "water landing". The floating seat cushions were affectionately referred to as "crash debris locators".
I think more of Swissair 111 when I think "water landing". As a general rule, it's not considered something you'd want to be around for.
1549 was an intentional, controlled (the flight control surfaces worked) landing on the water.
Swissair hit the water uncontrolled, far faster than a reasonable landing speed.
A hangglider instructor once told me the exact opposite. He experimented with 3d simulators and abandoned them because after the use of the simulator, the pupils took twice as long to learn how to fly as the pupils who never used the simulator.
That sounds suspicious as they are used extensively by the airline industry.
Basic flying skills are taught hands on on real aircraft (eg: C-172), developing up to aircraft like Piper Seminole for multi-engine certification. Lots of time is spent flying these aircraft before ever being in the airline industry.
Where Simulators are a big help in the airline industry, to experienced pilots that know how to fly a plane, is:
-Cost: Operating an empty 737 or A330 for training purposes only would be prohibitively expensive. Simulators allow more crew to get training at lower cost.
-Procedure based training: Drilling over and over checklists. Checklists for normal operation, checklists for emergencies (eg: engine failure). By simulating these in the safety of a simulator, with a cockpit laid out exactly like the real plane (Not VR helmet, and not Microsoft Flight Sim with a keyboard), pilots will already be familiar with the scenario if faced with it in real life, and know where to reach for controls.
Fortunately with my car I was able to buy $7 keys on ebay, and got Home Depot to cut them, and could program them myself.
They had a regular keyway. Unfortunately newer cars (that aren't push-button start) tend to have odd keyways that they wouldn't be able to handle.
Or with GM you have to have and enter the code if you replace your car battery.
Really, does anyone want to steal GM parts?
I love her reference to Voyager episode The Cloud. Her coffee quote is a direct lift from Cpt. Janeway in that episode!
My favorite coffee quote is:
Janeway: Coffee, Black.
Computer: Make it yourself.
From The episode "Q2"
Maybe she'll pose for that one with the coffee maker aboard since she will be able to make it herself?
Wouldn't surprise me if they tried to sue. Note she has an ISS pin instead of Star fleet emblem, so I guess it's different enough. Somehow though I'm reminded of the episode "Live Fast and Prosper"
Publicity like this is hard to buy. Same as the tribute astronaut Terry Virts gave Leonard Nimoy over Boston.
I'm sure the Star Trek franchise played a small part in a number of astronauts' interest in space.
Or around a sharp corner.
I know as an anti-theft "feature", some makes have coding on the radio making it impossible to replace with another OEM radio.
Here's another one: Someone I know accidentally set off the airbags in their car (no collision). They replaced the bags, but the air bag light was still on. Toyota couldn't simply "reset the fault" and wanted to sell him a whole new air bag computer ($$$). He found some online outfit that will reset the computer.
Actually, it's more like what Apple did 16 years ago, since it's natural handwriting recognition, and the Palm required you to use a special alphabet.
The original palm pilot is 18 years old, and the original Newton is 22 years old.
Though Palm required you to learn a modified alphabet in the form of Graffiti, it had simpler strokes that were faster to enter, and it allowed more differentiation between characters by the device, and higher accuracy.
Then Graffiti 2 came out, which sucked, but was due to patent problems.
Actually AMD defined the 64 bit extensions to the 32 bit x86 architecture, and Intel had to follow and is letting the Itanic sink.
Of course Intel does not even remotely admit it (and even Linus ranted on this fact in a mail a decade or so ago), but they have still not come over the NIH syndrome that it caused them.
That was the brief window that AMD had the upper hand. On the processor architecture side, Intel was splitting resources between hoping non-backward compatible Itanium was the future, and the disaster known as Netburst in the Pentium 4. Netburst had terrible performance, too high power consumption, but they were able to claim higher Ghz. All Intel had was name recognition, but technologically AMD was leading with the K7 and K8, and on this they were able to launch 64 bit. Even though it'd be the better part of 6 years before 64 bit really caught on, it was backwards compatible so it didn't cost anything to have but not use.
Intel only got ahead when a small group in Israel threw the Pentium 4 in the garbage, and started back at the Pentium III to design the Pentium M as an efficient mobile processor (which ushered in the confusing line of Centrino mobile platforms, that had Pentium M, Intel chipset, and Intel Wifi, not an actual Centrino processor). Intel eventually threw the Pentium 4 wholesale in the garbage, and expanded on Pentium M to form Core/ Core 2, and then from there i3/5/7 family. The rest is history.
I like to root for AMD as the underdog. When I bought my laptop 8 years ago, though perhaps not as good on battery, my AMD was best bang for the buck, and the low end graphics it had blew away Intel's junk i945. Sadly last year when I went to spec a new desktop, I wanted to want AMD, but Intel simply blew it away with performance. On normal desktop functions I feel single thread performance plays a major part in the CPU bottle neck. With a quad core, additional execution units are going to give marginal incremental improvements if you're not running a highly parallel workload. My i5-4690 stood out as the obvious choice.
AMD was riding high when Intel made a major mis-step with Pentium 4, but those days are long behind them, and they seem to be circling the drain. Spinning off, outsourcing, always behind on Fab technology, and a fraction of the R&D budget of Intel it's hard to compete.
Does anyone remember why they switched to Google for all of their internet searches? I do: Lycos, Altavista, and others had become bloated, ad-laden, pieces of crap, while google.com was a plain white page with nothing but a text box, a search button, and the google logo (the search also gave superior results).
They fucked that one up too. Back then Altavista, etc searched by default with boolean OR, so typing more keywords resulted in vaguer results unless you added a "+" in front of each word for Boolean AND. When google came out the default was boolean AND.
Some time in the past couple years they went to a fuzzy logic boolean OR / synonyms of words you typed. You could force the AND for your exact word with a "+". They removed that and now you have to put each word in quotes to ensure it only looks up exactly the words you type.
At least it's not the worst revamp I've had to deal with - the worst has to be GIMP, no contest.
http://www.gimpusers.com/forum...
GOD dammit you pesky user! You're not the target user! We're targeting some mystical professional Photoshop convert that doesn't care about CMYK, even though all of our users are regular home users that are FOSS evangelizers, and encourage their friends and family to use it.
For Windows at least, I find Paint.NET to be a very good Free (as in Beer) image editor. Much prefer to The Gimp. PhotoFiltre is a Free for home user only program that's ok as well.
Interestingly at our fairly conservative company, The Gimp (even with the name) and Paint.NET are both available as downloads through the SCCM repository on Windows machines. I think to avoid having people request Photoshop.
6 years ago I went to a speech given by Richard Stallman. The very first question someone asked was about the status of Hurd. He sighed, then proceeded to answer