Its the article, not the OP, who's putting a spin on this. But I agree with you.
Open source is developed in very different ways than proprietary systems, and we should expect that they progress very differently as well. We expect top-down proprietary software to advance annually in solid leaps from version to version - any sidestepping or pussyfooting is seen as weakness. But the nature of open source is to fill in gaps and explore alternatives. The development of LibreOffice suggests to me that the movement has found a weakness in the openoffice approach and is rerouting. This is good news!
from the article: "People normally come into contact with phages through food, water and the environment, and they are found in our digestive tracts, the FDA said."
soooo... these are the same phages found in our stomachs? then its not so much a bad thing at all. is it? besides, the article also seems to indicate that only limited meats such as luncheon meats will be treated this way, as they typically are not cooked or reheated by the consumer.
From what i could see, these are the features it has: - basic formatting: fonts, cell colors - cell manipulation: alignment, insertion/deletion, merging (horizontal only) - column sorting, row freezing (top rows only) - functions: math, statistical, lookup, info (ISxxxx), text manipulation, etc. - saving/loading online - downloading XLS/CSV/HTML - sharing with other users to: edit/view (have not played with this - can invite ppl)
This is what is missing that 90% of users will want: - basic formatting: borders, and everything else - charting abilities - autofill of cells (that draggable black dot on the bottom right of a selected cell) - pivot tables, etc. - anything and everything else you can think of
I'm surprised that google felt the need to release this version of its online spreadsheets. To call it rudimentary is an overstatement. There is so little functionality that there is very little to actually test. In comparison, editGrid and irows.com have a comparitvely feature-rich online spreadsheets already. The industry rumor-mill in fact thought a week or so ago that google was going to buy out irows.com.
There really is nothing to gawk at, at google spreadsheets right now. Give it six months before spending time discussing features.
wow. how can such a (presumably) well educated crowd as slashdot remain so fricking ignorant about the world? whats with all these racist jokes? sometimes when i read slashdot's blatant racism, methinks that india is doing the world a huge favor by taking away valuable jobs from the hands of such ignorance.
first, you forget that the US dumped tons of $$ into the reconstruction of japan. the british did not do that for india, despite having wrecked the indian economic potential far more surely than the americans did the japanese. you forget that india suffered 200 yrs of brutal colonial rule that left all but a tiny fragment of its ppl uneducated. you forget that under colonialism, indians weren't even allowed to run anything that resembled industry... it was illegal to do more than grow basic commodity crops for british consumption. when india got indepedence, it had an industrial revolution to catch up on. japan did not have to go through that -- they had industrial know-how all along.
the indian space research organization is single-mindedly dedicated to the development of technology that benefits civilians. you can read about that yourself. the moon-mission is the first gamble they are taking wherein they hope that a challenging outer-space mission will both boost their technological know-how and in turn help civilians in the future, and also ignite the minds of indian children regarding technology and space. yes, i understand that americans who were born before the 90s can't see anything outside the cold-war prism. but really, indians just want to push their technology further...
why did japan not invest into military and nuclear technology the way india has? simply b/c it has always been under the american military and nuclear umbrella. india, on the other had, was treated as a pariah by the US for not kowtowing to american foriegn policy. india has had to suffer embargos and sanctions for its right to defend itself. in contrast the obstentatiously peace-loving japanese could pretend that it didn't want to develop a strong military or militaristic technology, when in reality it has just counted on the US to protect it.
ok, enough. i'm not getting paid to educate this lot. nor is it entirely feasible.
to add to my previous comment, i guess the simplest (and crappiest) analogy i can come up with is this: its not easy to translate what you say in english, faithfully in to chinese without some loss of meaning. but if i could read your mind (plugin!) i could more accurately translate the nuances of your thoughts.
openoffice's conversions of ms documents to odf ain't so hot. anything beyond a very basic document has glitches. i've tried word and ppt documents this has been the case for me.
my guess is that the new plugin can see the onscreen formatting and make a faithful representation of that in ODF, without ever having to decode the.doc format.
The linked article states that: Symantec is distributing patches to its customers through its LiveUpdate automatic update service and other mechanisms. It warned companies that do not use those services to download the patches from its Web site and apply them as soon as possible.
So users with LiveUpdate should use tool to handle updates. BTW, my LiveUpdate didn't install any client patch. yet.
Want to move your children towards computers? Simple. Just keep a computer turned on in the house, and don't freak out when your children get close to it.
In terms of programming, the first thing that got me moving in the direction of coding was probably playing with physical lego blocks. Being able to think of and build subcomponents and put them together into larger designs is the basis of code design.
first programming language? think it was basic and logo at the same time.
but why are you so intent on forcing your kids into technology? push too hard and they might hate it.
or push too hard and it may affect other skills of greater importance in life -- like socializing skills and full body motor skills.
the analogy is with walkers. forcing a baby to walk when they want to crawl doesn't help 00 it hinders. Similarly,
Take India, for example. While they may have pop singers and the like who are enormously popular domestically, the global market for such music doesn't even begin to approach that of America's.
errr... could it be because they aren't singing/talking in English?
and despite singing/acting in Hindi, they are still huge in Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East??
Dunno if this is what 'chief scientist' means at google, but the GillBates0's link to Krishna's webpage also describes him as the creator of google news.
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Its the article, not the OP, who's putting a spin on this. But I agree with you.
Open source is developed in very different ways than proprietary systems, and we should expect that they progress very differently as well. We expect top-down proprietary software to advance annually in solid leaps from version to version - any sidestepping or pussyfooting is seen as weakness. But the nature of open source is to fill in gaps and explore alternatives. The development of LibreOffice suggests to me that the movement has found a weakness in the openoffice approach and is rerouting. This is good news!
from the article: "People normally come into contact with phages through food, water and the environment, and they are found in our digestive tracts, the FDA said."
soooo... these are the same phages found in our stomachs? then its not so much a bad thing at all. is it? besides, the article also seems to indicate that only limited meats such as luncheon meats will be treated this way, as they typically are not cooked or reheated by the consumer.
Okay, only becuase you asked nicely
From what i could see, these are the features it has:
- basic formatting: fonts, cell colors
- cell manipulation: alignment, insertion/deletion, merging (horizontal only)
- column sorting, row freezing (top rows only)
- functions: math, statistical, lookup, info (ISxxxx), text manipulation, etc.
- saving/loading online
- downloading XLS/CSV/HTML
- sharing with other users to: edit/view (have not played with this - can invite ppl)
This is what is missing that 90% of users will want:
- basic formatting: borders, and everything else
- charting abilities
- autofill of cells (that draggable black dot on the bottom right of a selected cell)
- pivot tables, etc.
- anything and everything else you can think of
I am one of the privileged few who have been granted access.
I'm surprised that google felt the need to release this version of its online spreadsheets. To call it rudimentary is an overstatement. There is so little functionality that there is very little to actually test. In comparison, editGrid and irows.com have a comparitvely feature-rich online spreadsheets already. The industry rumor-mill in fact thought a week or so ago that google was going to buy out irows.com.
There really is nothing to gawk at, at google spreadsheets right now. Give it six months before spending time discussing features.
wow. how can such a (presumably) well educated crowd as slashdot remain so fricking ignorant about the world? whats with all these racist jokes? sometimes when i read slashdot's blatant racism, methinks that india is doing the world a huge favor by taking away valuable jobs from the hands of such ignorance.
first, you forget that the US dumped tons of $$ into the reconstruction of japan. the british did not do that for india, despite having wrecked the indian economic potential far more surely than the americans did the japanese. you forget that india suffered 200 yrs of brutal colonial rule that left all but a tiny fragment of its ppl uneducated. you forget that under colonialism, indians weren't even allowed to run anything that resembled industry... it was illegal to do more than grow basic commodity crops for british consumption. when india got indepedence, it had an industrial revolution to catch up on. japan did not have to go through that -- they had industrial know-how all along.
the indian space research organization is single-mindedly dedicated to the development of technology that benefits civilians. you can read about that yourself. the moon-mission is the first gamble they are taking wherein they hope that a challenging outer-space mission will both boost their technological know-how and in turn help civilians in the future, and also ignite the minds of indian children regarding technology and space. yes, i understand that americans who were born before the 90s can't see anything outside the cold-war prism. but really, indians just want to push their technology further...
why did japan not invest into military and nuclear technology the way india has? simply b/c it has always been under the american military and nuclear umbrella. india, on the other had, was treated as a pariah by the US for not kowtowing to american foriegn policy. india has had to suffer embargos and sanctions for its right to defend itself. in contrast the obstentatiously peace-loving japanese could pretend that it didn't want to develop a strong military or militaristic technology, when in reality it has just counted on the US to protect it.
ok, enough. i'm not getting paid to educate this lot. nor is it entirely feasible.
to add to my previous comment, i guess the simplest (and crappiest) analogy i can come up with is this: its not easy to translate what you say in english, faithfully in to chinese without some loss of meaning. but if i could read your mind (plugin!) i could more accurately translate the nuances of your thoughts.
openoffice's conversions of ms documents to odf ain't so hot. anything beyond a very basic document has glitches. i've tried word and ppt documents this has been the case for me.
.doc format.
my guess is that the new plugin can see the onscreen formatting and make a faithful representation of that in ODF, without ever having to decode the
Z4 was sent back in time to destroy the creator of the first iPod.
How do tech-savvy people view Wikipedia?
I'd tell you what I think... but since mine is just an anonymous comment online, would anyone care?
The linked article states that:
Symantec is distributing patches to its customers through its LiveUpdate automatic update service and other mechanisms. It warned companies that do not use those services to download the patches from its Web site and apply them as soon as possible.
So users with LiveUpdate should use tool to handle updates. BTW, my LiveUpdate didn't install any client patch. yet.
The official site for SATHI is: http://www.ncoretech.com/sathi/
It contains pictures of the device and show examples of soldiers handling it.
A complete PDF brochure for the product is available at: http://www.ncoretech.com/sathi/pdf/brochue.pdf
It looks rugged, modern and seems to have been built with certain ergonomic principles in mind (e.g., one-handed use during battle).
SATHI has self-desctruct and remote-destruct capabilities.
see the brochure at: http://www.ncoretech.com/sathi/pdf/brochue.pdf
Want to move your children towards computers? Simple. Just keep a computer turned on in the house, and don't freak out when your children get close to it.
In terms of programming, the first thing that got me moving in the direction of coding was probably playing with physical lego blocks. Being able to think of and build subcomponents and put them together into larger designs is the basis of code design.
first programming language? think it was basic and logo at the same time.
but why are you so intent on forcing your kids into technology? push too hard and they might hate it.
or push too hard and it may affect other skills of greater importance in life -- like socializing skills and full body motor skills.
the analogy is with walkers. forcing a baby to walk when they want to crawl doesn't help 00 it hinders. Similarly,
Take India, for example. While they may have pop singers and the like who are enormously popular domestically, the global market for such music doesn't even begin to approach that of America's.
errr... could it be because they aren't singing/talking in English?
and despite singing/acting in Hindi, they are still huge in Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East??
Dunno if this is what 'chief scientist' means at google, but the GillBates0's link to Krishna's webpage also describes him as the creator of google news.
I think your battery has run its life (been through too many recharge cycles) if it dies so quick.
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Either that or you need to learn how to maintain battery life through proper usage patterns:
Take a look at http://www.mjfreelancer.com/nepal/r00320000424lef