Shipping a Microsoft Office version for mac without macros is just a way of removing support for professional users (who pay for their licenses) and not home users of pirated office versions. The question is: if it is not used, why don't they drop it in the Windows version as well? Answer is backward compatibility for pro users, so what about products like EndNotes?
Thus Microsoft got a way to go around the agreement they have with Apple for developping Office during the next 5 years or so... I really think that this type of behavior is really wrong because it is anti-competitive behavior for Vista.
I really hope that the support for Windows Office will be tremendous for MacOS with a wine-like solution and that this whole story will be easily forgotten.
Learning how to do mathematical proofs is of great interest for the development of children! It allows them to reason about something and have an idea about what is right and what is wrong and that there are things that are right and others that are wrong.
From another point of view, are computer scientists still really have something to prove to the rest of the scientific community so that they have to cheer up because they have the feeling that they beat mathematicians?
My real point is that mathematics and CS inherently have two different ways of stating problems: - Mathematics: complex problems -> complex proofs that should not be complicated (e.g. recursive proofs). - CS: simple problems -> simple, yet repetitive/complicated, proofs (soundness proofs).
It is rather but an accident that CS is able to prove anything in the math field. Btw, what is the point to prove something that nobody can understand (cf the answer is 42)?
So my advice is wake up guies! We, as cs people, are not meant to be the best/most powerful scientists! As each scientist we have our own domain, and it happens that we are the ones who built computers/software which are used by others, in the same sense that electrical engineering 'made' electricity. We are no more and no less than that.
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The country is a bit protective but salaries are good.
English has become the de facto lingua franca between the 3 communities (french speaking, swiss german speaking, italian speaking).
Switzerland is central and has decent vacations: 4-5 weeks.
The country is very safe and the landscape is really beautiful.
Definitely you would learn french very fast! ;)
France has so many vacations (especially if you have days work time reduction -- RTT) Then you have around 10 weeks of vacation per year.
Salary is rather low, but life is cheap if you don't live in Paris.
Shipping a Microsoft Office version for mac without macros is just a way of removing support for professional users (who pay for their licenses) and not home users of pirated office versions.
The question is: if it is not used, why don't they drop it in the Windows version as well?
Answer is backward compatibility for pro users, so what about products like EndNotes?
Thus Microsoft got a way to go around the agreement they have with Apple for developping Office during the next 5 years or so...
I really think that this type of behavior is really wrong because it is anti-competitive behavior for Vista.
I really hope that the support for Windows Office will be tremendous for MacOS with a wine-like solution and that this whole story will be easily forgotten.
... and the reports states that the fake click detection mechanism is reasonably handled by the google "CLick Quality Team".
Yes.
It is fully open source.
Everything has been put there...
As stated in the first message, one of the goals is also to have the students correct a lot of the things that they were complaining about...
Kinda "eat your own dogfood and it will become tastier"...
When are they ging to port skype 2 for Mac OS.
I'd really like to have visio-conferences from my powerbook...
Yes at last I read a comment speaking about the realID.
Is the US gonna be the biggest prison in the world?
BTW, they begin by innmates, then foreigners, and the next turn is for regular citizens...
Learning how to do mathematical proofs is of great interest for the development of children!
It allows them to reason about something and have an idea about what is right and what is wrong and that there are things that are right and others that are wrong.
From another point of view, are computer scientists still really have something to prove to the rest of the scientific community so that they have to cheer up because they have the feeling that they beat mathematicians?
My real point is that mathematics and CS inherently have two different ways of stating problems:
- Mathematics: complex problems -> complex proofs that should not be complicated (e.g. recursive proofs).
- CS: simple problems -> simple, yet repetitive/complicated, proofs (soundness proofs).
It is rather but an accident that CS is able to prove anything in the math field.
Btw, what is the point to prove something that nobody can understand (cf the answer is 42)?
So my advice is wake up guies! We, as cs people, are not meant to be the best/most powerful scientists! As each scientist we have our own domain, and it happens that we are the ones who built computers/software which are used by others, in the same sense that electrical engineering 'made' electricity. We are no more and no less than that.