I know this is normal in Android land, but I don't understand why people are OK with it.
Because OTA update is no big deal, you're only pretending not to know that, right?
Update on the fly is deep rooted part of the Linux culture, at least Google didn't break that too horribly. But update without reboot is also perfectly possible and normal on a proper Linux distribution, so I have to blow a stupid person raspberry in Google's general direction for that one.
So, roughly 25 standard racks of these equals one exabyte. I wonder how much that costs, and what kind of power consumption. Also need some hefty network gear to go with it. Doing the same with spinning disk would be about 120 racks, so that's not hugely different, but the power consumption and cooling requirements would be massively different.
Here's my analysis on the root cause of why very few people still use this...
This old troll. Nobody knows how big the LibreOffice market share really is, because finding that out costs money. Of course, Microsoft knows, but they aren't telling. Here is a German government sponsored study that reported massive worldwide penetration for OpenOffice, eight years ago when it was much less capable than today:
Eight years ago. It would be great if somebody sunk some bucks into a new study, but why? We already know that Libreoffice is a tremendous success by any measure. It's here to stay, the mutterings of a random internet troll notwithstanding.
I have this installed at home (linux) but I rarely use it - once or twice a year maybe.
I use Libreoffice Calc often and I love it. I use Writer any time my text needs exceed the capabilities of a monospace programmer's editor, what do you use? For serious publishing I use Lyx (TeX). There is a learning curve, but nothing touches TeX if perfection is your goal. If you aren't publishing in a peer reviewed journal or such then you don't need this.
Cut and paste works way better in LibreOffice than it does Excel, it's just normal Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V. That's huge for me. I find navigating in large models is better too.
MS goes to extradinary lengths to ensure nothing will ever threaten truly be able to be compatible with their formats...
Libreoffice has pretty damn good compatibility with Microsoft formats and improves with each release. That is particularly impressive considering the intentional and unintentional roadbocks. In some cases, Libreoffice compatibility with older formats is better than Microsoft's. But that is increasingly not the point, as Microsoft office formats are used less and less for data interchange. Today, if you want send around a finished document you send pdf. If you want to collaborate on a document, then docx is a truly crappy choice.
Now what we care most about with Libreoffice is functionality, which continues to move along at a highly satisfactory pace. It's Christmas twice a year, at least.
I have contributed to the libreoffice core... In no universe do I learn anything new or gain any cred by it.
If you had posted with a registered nick you would have gotten a bit of cred right here. If you put it on your resume you get major cred translating into dollars. If you send good patches then you get cred from your peers, that often translates into career-boosting networking. You know that.
And putting classified assets into any cloud is just asking for it. Don't let this one-or-two-vendor legerdemain distract you from the central question.
I doubt there is a kickback, it is too open to the GAO and auditing.
You are a trusting soul. Look at how Trump flouts the law in broad daylight. There are ways, there are means. Not all payback is in dollars (but most is.)
So sick of people "deciding on a cloud provider." People just don't get it. Being cloud ready means possessing the ability to move to any of them at any time. If you have to decide on a cloud provider you should just stay on-prem until you can put on your big boy pants.
If defense can benefit from "the cloud" for non-sensitive infrastructure then exactly as you say, they should put their effort into defining a spec with detailed QoS and each vendor that wishes to get a piece of the defense cloud pie has to meet the spec, and keep meeting it. But what is this idiocy about classified material in the cloud? It will go horribly wrong. It will. It will. It will.
I don't trust any of them, do you? Just to be clear: Microsoft getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Apple getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Oracle getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Google getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Amazon getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Listed in order from most disastrous to... still disastrous? What the hell.
What I want to know is, what is the size of the kickback? To whom will it be paid? In what form? Who has already promised to pay it? To be continued.
No need to teach me about that, I still have my Desire-Z from 2008 and it still works fine. Needed a new battery. Amazing keyboard, why can't I get that as a bluetooth accessory now? Most Google services rotted, that was crappy of Google.
Microsoft has done literally nothing good with Skype since buying it. It's almost like still being on ICQ. The only thing they have done is ruin the UI and insert a bunch of ads into it.
Don't forget, made it not peer-to-peer, removing its main unique characteristic.
First I heard of it, but with 135 million active users compared to 8 million for Slack, impressive. Skype has maybe 400 million active users, so not quite dead yet. Open source needs a winning horse in this race, but at least it seems nobody has a stranglehold on it yet, Microsoft's and Google's attempts notwithstanding.
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my wife's five year old iPhone 5s is running the latest iOS beta and yes; fast too (once she put in a new battery)
Of course. Apple has to update old phones to slow them down.
On a new laptop? Surely you are kidding? Where would one even get all the drivers?
Wow, every now and then a post like yours reminds me just how far Windows has fallen behind Linux.
I know this is normal in Android land, but I don't understand why people are OK with it.
Because OTA update is no big deal, you're only pretending not to know that, right?
Update on the fly is deep rooted part of the Linux culture, at least Google didn't break that too horribly. But update without reboot is also perfectly possible and normal on a proper Linux distribution, so I have to blow a stupid person raspberry in Google's general direction for that one.
So, roughly 25 standard racks of these equals one exabyte. I wonder how much that costs, and what kind of power consumption. Also need some hefty network gear to go with it. Doing the same with spinning disk would be about 120 racks, so that's not hugely different, but the power consumption and cooling requirements would be massively different.
Yah it's a Beowulf cluster, except no.
Here's my analysis on the root cause of why very few people still use this...
This old troll. Nobody knows how big the LibreOffice market share really is, because finding that out costs money. Of course, Microsoft knows, but they aren't telling. Here is a German government sponsored study that reported massive worldwide penetration for OpenOffice, eight years ago when it was much less capable than today:
Openoffice installed on up to 22% of computers in some countries
Eight years ago. It would be great if somebody sunk some bucks into a new study, but why? We already know that Libreoffice is a tremendous success by any measure. It's here to stay, the mutterings of a random internet troll notwithstanding.
I have this installed at home (linux) but I rarely use it - once or twice a year maybe.
I use Libreoffice Calc often and I love it. I use Writer any time my text needs exceed the capabilities of a monospace programmer's editor, what do you use? For serious publishing I use Lyx (TeX). There is a learning curve, but nothing touches TeX if perfection is your goal. If you aren't publishing in a peer reviewed journal or such then you don't need this.
Cut and paste works way better in LibreOffice than it does Excel, it's just normal Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V. That's huge for me. I find navigating in large models is better too.
MS goes to extradinary lengths to ensure nothing will ever threaten truly be able to be compatible with their formats...
Libreoffice has pretty damn good compatibility with Microsoft formats and improves with each release. That is particularly impressive considering the intentional and unintentional roadbocks. In some cases, Libreoffice compatibility with older formats is better than Microsoft's. But that is increasingly not the point, as Microsoft office formats are used less and less for data interchange. Today, if you want send around a finished document you send pdf. If you want to collaborate on a document, then docx is a truly crappy choice.
Now what we care most about with Libreoffice is functionality, which continues to move along at a highly satisfactory pace. It's Christmas twice a year, at least.
I have contributed to the libreoffice core... In no universe do I learn anything new or gain any cred by it.
If you had posted with a registered nick you would have gotten a bit of cred right here. If you put it on your resume you get major cred translating into dollars. If you send good patches then you get cred from your peers, that often translates into career-boosting networking. You know that.
And putting classified assets into any cloud is just asking for it. Don't let this one-or-two-vendor legerdemain distract you from the central question.
I doubt there is a kickback, it is too open to the GAO and auditing.
You are a trusting soul. Look at how Trump flouts the law in broad daylight. There are ways, there are means. Not all payback is in dollars (but most is.)
So sick of people "deciding on a cloud provider." People just don't get it. Being cloud ready means possessing the ability to move to any of them at any time. If you have to decide on a cloud provider you should just stay on-prem until you can put on your big boy pants.
If defense can benefit from "the cloud" for non-sensitive infrastructure then exactly as you say, they should put their effort into defining a spec with detailed QoS and each vendor that wishes to get a piece of the defense cloud pie has to meet the spec, and keep meeting it. But what is this idiocy about classified material in the cloud? It will go horribly wrong. It will. It will. It will.
Why do you not question the idiocy of entrusting classified assets to a public cloud?
I don't trust any of them, do you? Just to be clear: Microsoft getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Apple getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Oracle getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Google getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Amazon getting the whole defence contract would be a disaster. Listed in order from most disastrous to... still disastrous? What the hell.
What I want to know is, what is the size of the kickback? To whom will it be paid? In what form? Who has already promised to pay it? To be continued.
Oh I know, nothing like you.
Right, the article should have carried the standard warning: "May contain words of three syllables or more."
That'll fix'em. And they can keep their highfalutin phones and movies and stuff.
The usage of backwater is pejorative here.
I know, right? Just imagine how a river must feel about it.
No, it's nice because it's majority green.
I love how people refer to rural areas as backwaters.
You prefer to refer to rural backwaters as areas?
That keyboard though.
No need to teach me about that, I still have my Desire-Z from 2008 and it still works fine. Needed a new battery. Amazing keyboard, why can't I get that as a bluetooth accessory now? Most Google services rotted, that was crappy of Google.
Microsoft has done literally nothing good with Skype since buying it. It's almost like still being on ICQ. The only thing they have done is ruin the UI and insert a bunch of ads into it.
Don't forget, made it not peer-to-peer, removing its main unique characteristic.
Batteries are nearly always included these days, you supported my point.
No, we're on Discord.
First I heard of it, but with 135 million active users compared to 8 million for Slack, impressive. Skype has maybe 400 million active users, so not quite dead yet. Open source needs a winning horse in this race, but at least it seems nobody has a stranglehold on it yet, Microsoft's and Google's attempts notwithstanding.