While that is strictly speaking accurate, it is of course not the full story. The vast majority of that water is in parts of the country where it is not able to be used. Perhaps a huge canal down the middle of the country might solve it - but nothing short of that would.
You might think that cancelling VBA will make no significant difference, but you'd be wrong for one thing in particular. It means that there is now no way that a large number of businesses (probably far more than you know) will switch to Mac.
There is tens of billions of dollars invested in custom VBA solutions in tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of businesses across the world. Everything from stock transactions to the value of your investment trusts is all done using VBA.
I'm personally very annoyed by this. I'm about to start a new job working with Excel on a PC and doing process development in VBA. If I want to do work at home I will now have to either buy a PC, work in a virtualised Windows or run Office in WINE. None of which are exactly decent solutions.
Actually, you are not correct for the whole of the UK or even Britain.
IANAL, but AFAIK there is no such offence as "libel" under Scottish law. Defamation, which is the comparable offence has veritas as an absolute defence though.
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I believe that for "hack" you should read "looked at the backups of the Exchange servers".
If only filesystems utilised base 13 in a big way.
Perhaps not. After all, one would hope that the authors of a file system would know that 6*9 is 54. 6*7 is 42.
Besides the point - he has an absolute majority in parliament. It doesn't matter that FPTP and what is used in the House don't need that.
While that is strictly speaking accurate, it is of course not the full story. The vast majority of that water is in parts of the country where it is not able to be used. Perhaps a huge canal down the middle of the country might solve it - but nothing short of that would.
You might think that cancelling VBA will make no significant difference, but you'd be wrong for one thing in particular. It means that there is now no way that a large number of businesses (probably far more than you know) will switch to Mac.
There is tens of billions of dollars invested in custom VBA solutions in tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of businesses across the world. Everything from stock transactions to the value of your investment trusts is all done using VBA.
I'm personally very annoyed by this. I'm about to start a new job working with Excel on a PC and doing process development in VBA. If I want to do work at home I will now have to either buy a PC, work in a virtualised Windows or run Office in WINE. None of which are exactly decent solutions.
Actually, you are not correct for the whole of the UK or even Britain. IANAL, but AFAIK there is no such offence as "libel" under Scottish law. Defamation, which is the comparable offence has veritas as an absolute defence though.