Who among us has not run a 'puter with the chassis taken apart for months at a time? Get some good airflow, and don't spill your coffee on the components.
Its a tougher sell to put LO on the cloud. With no licensing costs you can just install it locally.
I would be far more excited by a mobile version.
http://spoon.net/. They've got a plugin that you can install on a Windows computer to run cloud versions of a bunch of free desktop apps. Worked pretty good on one machine for me today. But you are right - it needs to work on Mobile - Android, iOS, etc...
365 X $100 > $32K
hmmmm.... Let me offer some free accounting advice - you might want to find a better-paying job or a cheaper "habit". Could I recommend fishing, jogging, or playing video games? All much, much more in line with your current stated income.
It's IBM's 5,000th attempt to "reinvent the office productivity suite". How incredibly useful. I guess 2013 will be "The Year of MS Office Migration" then??
Yeah - take back my earlier comment. I DO NOT want to see the beta.
You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head. Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber.
How long has an online version of OOo or LO been "in the works"? Maybe ten years? Show me a stinking beta, and quit showing me stinking press releases.
The truly sad thing is the direction of the thrust of technology in our most...valuable? profitable?...companies: advertising. Google: worth billions!
When you consider that most companies are either no longer profitable or are barely profitable, the smart money is definitely going to go into areas like selling online advertising and making and selling iPhone clones. Not many industries left anymore where you can make a comfortable profit margin. Energy and labor costs have put the squeeze on most companies, and Asian high-volume manufacturing capability has turned most manufactured goods into razor-thin-profit commodity products.
...got to love those over-reaching science publication headlines. When I was young, we were all told we were supposed to be living in space colonies by now. If the Russians didn't kill us all first with laser-guided hydrogen bombs.
Instead we got Facebook, Twitter, fart apps on the iPhone, and World of Warcraft -- kind of the same thing really.
My thoughts exactly. So - my google search app wouldn't point me to web pages - instead it would point me to apps I could download and install for each different web page. So now I'm installing thousands of web apps? THAT sounds like a security nightmare! Who is going to watch over the security of the apps? Google? They are already having problems with the Android apps.
You are proposing a $1,300 solution. The average solution so far seems to be hovering around $20, with some as low as $3. There are some cost efficiency problems with your solution.
You don't want to be the guy who can't get shit done because X decided you can go fuck yourself, or an upgrade broke wireless, or you need to give a presentation and your HDMI out is doing weird things or simply not working, even though it works on your monitor at home, and so on.
Got to be careful about testing those updates on any presentation or production machine - whether its Linux, OSX, Windows, BSD - whatever. One valuable characteristic of established Linux distros such as SUSE and Red Hat is that you can do incremental updates and roll them back if you have a problem. I can see where you would have run into more of a hassle with Gentoo.
I asked my teenage daughter (the demographic that drives all technology spending) if she or her friends use Facebook anymore. She said almost never - they use Instagram to share pictures, and some other services I can't remember right this second.
Is Facebook in danger of falling off the MySpace cliff?
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Don't tell me you've never opened an old system and found a spider's nest.
Who among us has not run a 'puter with the chassis taken apart for months at a time? Get some good airflow, and don't spill your coffee on the components.
Its a tougher sell to put LO on the cloud. With no licensing costs you can just install it locally. I would be far more excited by a mobile version.
http://spoon.net/. They've got a plugin that you can install on a Windows computer to run cloud versions of a bunch of free desktop apps. Worked pretty good on one machine for me today. But you are right - it needs to work on Mobile - Android, iOS, etc...
365 X $100 > $32K hmmmm.... Let me offer some free accounting advice - you might want to find a better-paying job or a cheaper "habit". Could I recommend fishing, jogging, or playing video games? All much, much more in line with your current stated income.
For a moment, I read that as..
Wow - that was like almost a "whoosh" man.
It's IBM's 5,000th attempt to "reinvent the office productivity suite". How incredibly useful. I guess 2013 will be "The Year of MS Office Migration" then??
Yeah - take back my earlier comment. I DO NOT want to see the beta.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion man.
You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Duder's head. Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber.
How long has an online version of OOo or LO been "in the works"? Maybe ten years? Show me a stinking beta, and quit showing me stinking press releases.
I never see ads in Linux, even when using free apps.
It's a brave new world out there for Ubuntu users: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online-shopping-features-arrive-in-ubuntu-12-10
Or like how Steam tries to bombard users with popup ads anytime they want to play the games they've already paid for?
What - Like Angry Birds on the iPad?? http://www.iosnoops.com/2011/03/17/angry-birds-hd-advertising-screw-up-why-ads-in-paid-apps-are-a-big-no-no/
The truly sad thing is the direction of the thrust of technology in our most...valuable? profitable?...companies: advertising. Google: worth billions!
When you consider that most companies are either no longer profitable or are barely profitable, the smart money is definitely going to go into areas like selling online advertising and making and selling iPhone clones. Not many industries left anymore where you can make a comfortable profit margin. Energy and labor costs have put the squeeze on most companies, and Asian high-volume manufacturing capability has turned most manufactured goods into razor-thin-profit commodity products.
At least, that's the way I see it.
...got to love those over-reaching science publication headlines. When I was young, we were all told we were supposed to be living in space colonies by now. If the Russians didn't kill us all first with laser-guided hydrogen bombs.
Instead we got Facebook, Twitter, fart apps on the iPhone, and World of Warcraft -- kind of the same thing really.
...from users! Spokesperson says "the walled garden is now complete". Story at 11.
My thoughts exactly. So - my google search app wouldn't point me to web pages - instead it would point me to apps I could download and install for each different web page. So now I'm installing thousands of web apps? THAT sounds like a security nightmare! Who is going to watch over the security of the apps? Google? They are already having problems with the Android apps.
..."the Golden Gate Bridge", in honor of Apple Maps.
... "Newton"
You are proposing a $1,300 solution. The average solution so far seems to be hovering around $20, with some as low as $3. There are some cost efficiency problems with your solution.
Wrong. iMac G3 was the all-in-one manufactured in 1998, and you can buy a used one on Amazon right now for $169: http://www.amazon.com/Certified-Pre-Owned-internal-keyboard-installed/dp/B000PQJPPU
...trade in all that cruft and get yourself an iMac G3.
Don't listen to pollsters or political analysts - they are well-paid liars. Every year there are surprises. You should vote.
Exactly!
It was a joke.
Facebook owns Instagram, so it seems unlikely.
Oh, I didn't know that. That's why I come here, to be told what an idiot I am. Very useful info.
You don't want to be the guy who can't get shit done because X decided you can go fuck yourself, or an upgrade broke wireless, or you need to give a presentation and your HDMI out is doing weird things or simply not working, even though it works on your monitor at home, and so on.
Got to be careful about testing those updates on any presentation or production machine - whether its Linux, OSX, Windows, BSD - whatever. One valuable characteristic of established Linux distros such as SUSE and Red Hat is that you can do incremental updates and roll them back if you have a problem. I can see where you would have run into more of a hassle with Gentoo.
I asked my teenage daughter (the demographic that drives all technology spending) if she or her friends use Facebook anymore. She said almost never - they use Instagram to share pictures, and some other services I can't remember right this second. Is Facebook in danger of falling off the MySpace cliff?