Bacterial infection will kill more people per year than cancer soon because of our poor stewardship of antibiotics. We should be putting way more effort into solutions for infections (production as well as research) than we do today.
A lot more people get killed by car than by swimming pools. It's time to stop this mandatory swimming-pool-protection-fences nonsense, and focus on car safety instead!
Have you ever hear about the law of diminishing returns? Read it, and think again.
Actually, they used their quasi-monopoly on search to push their browser. Anytime you visit Google with a non-Chrome browser it tries to push Chrome on you.
It's a two-way process: they use their search engine to promote their browser, and they use their browser to promote their search engine. Welcome to the wonderful world of monopoly.
I have always sent out my CV as plain ASCII text. That way anybody can view it on anything, anywhere and it will always look the same. I have had a few clueless HR people contact me asking for a Microsoft Word format file, but I turn them down saying I'm looking for a tech job, not a clerical job.
I have always sent my CV as plain paper. That way anybody can view it on anything, anywhere and it will always look the same. I have had a few clueless IT people contact me asking for a digital version, but I turn them down saying I'm looking for a real job, not a bullshit job.
...that will never work.
That would cost more to manufacture, and you would sell less bottles as you would squeeze more out of each.
I cannot see how the manufacturers would be interested in that.
There is an opportunity for a business who can vertically integrate boring machine design and operation. This whole boring business run just like it was running in the XIXth century; he probably foresaw a significant headroom for disruptive technological improvement.
So if I understand well, the areas where Microsoft if winning money is the one they only invest in? Does this mean that Micro$oft is slowly becoming an investment company?
But this is really a Java problem, and not a Webex problem per se, [...]
Agreed, but random Joe does not give a shit whether the application is not running because it's using a broken virtual environnement or if it's the own application fault. If you are not able to reliably run an application using java web-start, then don't use java web-start. Use a native application, browser plugins, or whatever else.
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
--Bjarne Stroustrup
Webex runs on Linux. More poorly than on Windows, but it runs and I was able to screen share on one occasion when I tried it.
Depends on your definition of "runs on Linux". I managed to get the screen-share running (ugly I must say), after a long and epic battle with my browser. But to make the sound work, AFAIR you had to "manually" install of dozen of old/unsupported x86 libs; the operation was heading towards a maintenance disaster so I did not dare to complete it. Anyway, for sound, I usually use a plain-old-physical-phone, the sound quality is usually better.
Unless 99% of the OS are supported, it's useless for my company then (and lots of company I know). We're in 2017 for god's sake, people should start to understand that not all the people do run Windows or iOS. Especially for a conf-call stuff, where you need to find the common denominator suitable for every callers.
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Bacterial infection will kill more people per year than cancer soon because of our poor stewardship of antibiotics. We should be putting way more effort into solutions for infections (production as well as research) than we do today.
A lot more people get killed by car than by swimming pools. It's time to stop this mandatory swimming-pool-protection-fences nonsense, and focus on car safety instead!
Have you ever hear about the law of diminishing returns? Read it, and think again.
Actually, they used their quasi-monopoly on search to push their browser. Anytime you visit Google with a non-Chrome browser it tries to push Chrome on you.
It's a two-way process: they use their search engine to promote their browser, and they use their browser to promote their search engine. Welcome to the wonderful world of monopoly.
I have always sent out my CV as plain ASCII text. That way anybody can view it on anything, anywhere and it will always look the same. I have had a few clueless HR people contact me asking for a Microsoft Word format file, but I turn them down saying I'm looking for a tech job, not a clerical job.
I have always sent my CV as plain paper. That way anybody can view it on anything, anywhere and it will always look the same. I have had a few clueless IT people contact me asking for a digital version, but I turn them down saying I'm looking for a real job, not a bullshit job.
...that will never work. That would cost more to manufacture, and you would sell less bottles as you would squeeze more out of each. I cannot see how the manufacturers would be interested in that.
There is an opportunity for a business who can vertically integrate boring machine design and operation. This whole boring business run just like it was running in the XIXth century; he probably foresaw a significant headroom for disruptive technological improvement.
The marginal improvement curve is slowing but surely heading towards asymptotic flatness. Time to move on to a new product.
Would such an universe be left extremely vulnerable to few mad men who could destroy intelligent life at the touch of buttons [...] ?
Based on recent development in some countries on planet Earth, I would say this is a definitive YES.
So if I understand well, the areas where Microsoft if winning money is the one they only invest in? Does this mean that Micro$oft is slowly becoming an investment company?
... do you get the right to some privacy, at least?
But this is really a Java problem, and not a Webex problem per se, [...]
Agreed, but random Joe does not give a shit whether the application is not running because it's using a broken virtual environnement or if it's the own application fault. If you are not able to reliably run an application using java web-start, then don't use java web-start. Use a native application, browser plugins, or whatever else.
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. --Bjarne Stroustrup
[...] but when you throw 300 of them at a project the project gets completed.
Given enough time, an army of monkeys jumping on typewriters will spit out the complete work of Shakespeare.
Webex runs on Linux. More poorly than on Windows, but it runs and I was able to screen share on one occasion when I tried it.
Depends on your definition of "runs on Linux". I managed to get the screen-share running (ugly I must say), after a long and epic battle with my browser. But to make the sound work, AFAIR you had to "manually" install of dozen of old/unsupported x86 libs; the operation was heading towards a maintenance disaster so I did not dare to complete it. Anyway, for sound, I usually use a plain-old-physical-phone, the sound quality is usually better.
I prefer a phone line for conferencing vs IP anyhow, as it reduces latency [...]
The funny thing is that both are carried more or less the same way by the telcos nowadays.
No mention of Linux.
Unless 99% of the OS are supported, it's useless for my company then (and lots of company I know). We're in 2017 for god's sake, people should start to understand that not all the people do run Windows or iOS. Especially for a conf-call stuff, where you need to find the common denominator suitable for every callers.
...does it run well on all operating systems?
The smarter the phone is, the more power it need to perform the same function.