The problem is, Office tends to be 'compatible enough', certainly to the point where most people don't think twice about which version a.doc is created in when they open it.
The last I looked at it you *have* to run it as a default site, so that means you need yet another server
If you install it correctly, by following the installation guides (or even just the prompts on screen), SharePoint leaves your default site well alone - you can either install your SharePoint sites using host headers, or different port numbers.
Because it only seems to be sold to 'enterprises' that means that the wider world isn't using it at all and many software developers won't be writing for it either. As a result it has no mindshare whatsoever. I was always suspicious that there was any kind of real momentum behind it.
I think you will find that SharePoint development is a huge market, and is expanding every day. From my personal experience, demand is high in both small and large businesses.
No, I didn't miss the point at all, but you seemed to have misunderstood both my post and the post I was replying to. There is no reason why something other than UNIX could be revolutionary, regardless of whether UNIX came first.
What, how did we get onto Apple bashing here? Seriously...
Have you seen the state of AmigaOS these days? Its pretty pathetic, plus Amiga lost that 'cool' factor a decade ago - it has no base to build upon unlike Apple (the new style iMacs were released well before OSX, Apple basically rebuilt their styling with an existing customer base). Plus theres the application base and getting big names back onto the platform.
And no, this isn't a case of 'if you build it they will come'.
You also seemed to miss out on the fact that I'm also a Windows user...
I used an Amiga extensively between 1992 and 1999, before switching to firstly Linux, then FreeBSD and ultimately ended up on Windows 7 and OSX 10.6.
The Amiga can be considered technically revolutionary in its day, but that day is passed imho - significant investment would be needed to rejuvinate the platform today.
So we should forgive what is to most people a shitty application its sins because it solves a problem the majority of people don't give a crap about?
Thats the underlying problem here - the creator may indeed be correct when he says that 'such complaints and criticisms about PulseAudio in some Internet forums are not really shared by the vast majority of technical people', but those people are outweighed by the non-technical masses suffering a bad experience.
Don't use the product then, thats part of the required payment. You people really sicken me - trying every excuse in the book to justify immoral actions.
Why not simply use something else if you aren't willing to pay the going price? There seems to be an automatic reaction to ads - block them at all cost! Have you ever considered why ads are used? Yes, on some web pages its blatant cashing in, as many ads as possible and three lines of content, and those websites never see my custom at all. However, in a lot of cases the site or facility is worth having, and worth rewarding. I may never click on an advert, but I am more than willing to let them show me adverts in the offchance that one may catch my interest and send a few pennies their way.
Your approach is little more than theft - your immediate reaction is to see how you can take what is offered, but not at the offered price. So I ask you again, why not use something else?
The article, and indeed the blurb he wrote in his profile, does not necessarily point to a 128bit OS, just that the Windows 8 kernel will have 128bit 'architecture compatibility', which probably means hes ensuring that they remove all burdens of porting to the 128bit architecture now, rather than later.
Not only does it say 'architecture', it also says 'architecture compatibility'.
Why is that important? Because it does not mean that Windows 8 will necessarily be 128bit, just capable of being 128bit - for all we know, his entire role is ensuring that the teams code to a set standard which allows ease of porting to 128bit in future.
No, not free - included in the price of the licence, which is not insignificant (I've done my fair share of volume licence purchasing - £200,000 plus per round). Plus the home use rights come with a postage and packing charge - you give your staff a token with which they order their home use copy, you don't supply the software yourself.
The argument of saving lives is complete bullshit, because it assumes the black and white positions of 'invade and fight to the bitter end' or 'do not invade and Japan becomes a formidable force again'.
A much better solution would have been a blockade of Japan, with a low intensity bombing campaign. Japan would have never recovered and would have surrendered eventually, with much less loss of life than two nuclear attacks.
Iran signed the NPT in 1968, while the country was still suffering under the leadership of a British and American installed dictator. Why is that signing considered valid?
step 1- Ebooks need to be 1/2 price of the printed book OR LESS. sorry but they simply have rampant greed going on in the ebook arena. I am not going to buy your latest ebook if it costs as much as the fricking hardcover.
So if they want to nip this in the bud, tell the freaking publishers to stop being greedy assholes and reduce the MSRP on all books and pull in their profit margins to that of a printed book. it is NOT cheap to print a book, pass that fricking savings on to the reader.
There was a story here a couple of weeks back that detailed why various book formats cost what they did, and how that related to physical print costs - producing a hardback copy is not significantly more than a paperback, but the extra cost you pay is for the early access, not the format.
That doesn't change with an ebook - if you want it now, then you pay for that desire. If you want it later on, then you can wait and save.
Use the object model on the server itself then, and you have everything as SPListItem objects, with all the metadata accessible as part of the collection.
Getting content out of SharePoint is blindingly trivial - the web services provided allow you to access all saved versions of documents in document libraries (including wiki pages et al), all user information and all list items.
Grab the information from the web services and do whatever you wish with the resulting data - its neither hard nor hidden, so this story is pointless.
I would just like to make it known that I have looked into the deal, and I am not taking my information from propaganda, and that your description of the issue at hand is far from complete.
No, Google cannot enter into agreements with publishers as you describe, but they can propose a wide ranging settlement against a class action, where all class action members are those described as being publishers. The court then agrees that settlement for all class action members, including the absent ones.
That is why this case is unique - its not using the class action system as punishment or renumeration for issues, its using the system to get a class to unilaterally extend rights to the defendent. Thats the problem.
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The problem is, Office tends to be 'compatible enough', certainly to the point where most people don't think twice about which version a .doc is created in when they open it.
OpenOffice has yet to reach that threshold.
SBS includes WSS3, but so does plain old Windows Server 2008 - but theres no evidence that those licences are being counted here.
The last I looked at it you *have* to run it as a default site, so that means you need yet another server
If you install it correctly, by following the installation guides (or even just the prompts on screen), SharePoint leaves your default site well alone - you can either install your SharePoint sites using host headers, or different port numbers.
Because it only seems to be sold to 'enterprises' that means that the wider world isn't using it at all and many software developers won't be writing for it either. As a result it has no mindshare whatsoever. I was always suspicious that there was any kind of real momentum behind it.
I think you will find that SharePoint development is a huge market, and is expanding every day. From my personal experience, demand is high in both small and large businesses.
No, I didn't miss the point at all, but you seemed to have misunderstood both my post and the post I was replying to. There is no reason why something other than UNIX could be revolutionary, regardless of whether UNIX came first.
What, how did we get onto Apple bashing here? Seriously...
Have you seen the state of AmigaOS these days? Its pretty pathetic, plus Amiga lost that 'cool' factor a decade ago - it has no base to build upon unlike Apple (the new style iMacs were released well before OSX, Apple basically rebuilt their styling with an existing customer base). Plus theres the application base and getting big names back onto the platform.
And no, this isn't a case of 'if you build it they will come'.
You also seemed to miss out on the fact that I'm also a Windows user...
I used an Amiga extensively between 1992 and 1999, before switching to firstly Linux, then FreeBSD and ultimately ended up on Windows 7 and OSX 10.6.
The Amiga can be considered technically revolutionary in its day, but that day is passed imho - significant investment would be needed to rejuvinate the platform today.
is the Amiga platform even relevant any more? The hardware and OS were revolutionary in 1989
Thats 20 years after Unix was released, right ?
Yeah, because UNIX was the last and latest OS to be revolutionary, its impossible that something else, after UNIX, might have been revolutionary.
Now, the question remains whether the Amiga was revolutionary, but my point stands - UNIX is not the be-all end-all.
So we should forgive what is to most people a shitty application its sins because it solves a problem the majority of people don't give a crap about?
Thats the underlying problem here - the creator may indeed be correct when he says that 'such complaints and criticisms about PulseAudio in some Internet forums are not really shared by the vast majority of technical people', but those people are outweighed by the non-technical masses suffering a bad experience.
Don't use the product then, thats part of the required payment. You people really sicken me - trying every excuse in the book to justify immoral actions.
Except its completely different as there is a deliberate intention here to take the product without payment, which I certainly classify as theft.
There are plenty of readily available alternatives to OSX (and some are even free), while the same cannot be said for mainframe OSes.
Why not simply use something else if you aren't willing to pay the going price? There seems to be an automatic reaction to ads - block them at all cost! Have you ever considered why ads are used? Yes, on some web pages its blatant cashing in, as many ads as possible and three lines of content, and those websites never see my custom at all. However, in a lot of cases the site or facility is worth having, and worth rewarding. I may never click on an advert, but I am more than willing to let them show me adverts in the offchance that one may catch my interest and send a few pennies their way.
Your approach is little more than theft - your immediate reaction is to see how you can take what is offered, but not at the offered price. So I ask you again, why not use something else?
The article, and indeed the blurb he wrote in his profile, does not necessarily point to a 128bit OS, just that the Windows 8 kernel will have 128bit 'architecture compatibility', which probably means hes ensuring that they remove all burdens of porting to the 128bit architecture now, rather than later.
Not only does it say 'architecture', it also says 'architecture compatibility'.
Why is that important? Because it does not mean that Windows 8 will necessarily be 128bit, just capable of being 128bit - for all we know, his entire role is ensuring that the teams code to a set standard which allows ease of porting to 128bit in future.
No, not free - included in the price of the licence, which is not insignificant (I've done my fair share of volume licence purchasing - £200,000 plus per round). Plus the home use rights come with a postage and packing charge - you give your staff a token with which they order their home use copy, you don't supply the software yourself.
How much does your company pay for this feature from Microsoft? Its not free, believe me...
The argument of saving lives is complete bullshit, because it assumes the black and white positions of 'invade and fight to the bitter end' or 'do not invade and Japan becomes a formidable force again'.
A much better solution would have been a blockade of Japan, with a low intensity bombing campaign. Japan would have never recovered and would have surrendered eventually, with much less loss of life than two nuclear attacks.
Iran signed the NPT in 1968, while the country was still suffering under the leadership of a British and American installed dictator. Why is that signing considered valid?
I agree.
step 1- Ebooks need to be 1/2 price of the printed book OR LESS. sorry but they simply have rampant greed going on in the ebook arena. I am not going to buy your latest ebook if it costs as much as the fricking hardcover.
So if they want to nip this in the bud, tell the freaking publishers to stop being greedy assholes and reduce the MSRP on all books and pull in their profit margins to that of a printed book. it is NOT cheap to print a book, pass that fricking savings on to the reader.
There was a story here a couple of weeks back that detailed why various book formats cost what they did, and how that related to physical print costs - producing a hardback copy is not significantly more than a paperback, but the extra cost you pay is for the early access, not the format.
That doesn't change with an ebook - if you want it now, then you pay for that desire. If you want it later on, then you can wait and save.
Use the object model on the server itself then, and you have everything as SPListItem objects, with all the metadata accessible as part of the collection.
Getting content out of SharePoint is blindingly trivial - the web services provided allow you to access all saved versions of documents in document libraries (including wiki pages et al), all user information and all list items.
Grab the information from the web services and do whatever you wish with the resulting data - its neither hard nor hidden, so this story is pointless.
Live Migration is fully supported in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V.
The ATV has flown, Dragon has yet to fly. Thats a huge difference in capability right there.
I would just like to make it known that I have looked into the deal, and I am not taking my information from propaganda, and that your description of the issue at hand is far from complete.
No, Google cannot enter into agreements with publishers as you describe, but they can propose a wide ranging settlement against a class action, where all class action members are those described as being publishers. The court then agrees that settlement for all class action members, including the absent ones.
That is why this case is unique - its not using the class action system as punishment or renumeration for issues, its using the system to get a class to unilaterally extend rights to the defendent. Thats the problem.
No, the alternative is to take a copy and store it until the copyright expires, at which point you are free to make copies of it publicly available.