I think my boss uses excel for simple formulas and for lists. I use Excel for anything not quite worthy of a Matlab script, so OpenOffice doesn't quite measure up for me but should work fine for my boss.
Your boss isn't interested in what you think.
What he needs is an office suite -- or integrated office system -- that can be deployed across the enterprise.
It doesn't matter if any single component is overkill for some so long as it works for all. Including temps, trainees, volunteers and so on.
I'm sorry Dodge, Toyota, Honda and all your friends; you simply can't compete.
I think perhaps they can.
In 2010, Toyota employed 325,905 people worldwide, and was the third-largest automobile manufacturer in 2011 by production behind General Motors and Volkswagen Group. Toyota is the eleventh-largest company in the world by revenue. In July 2012, the company reported it had manufactured its 200-millionth vehicle.
On May 8, 2013, Toyota Motor Corporation announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013. Net revenues totaled 22.0 trillion yen (US$ 216.7 billion, +18.7%). Operating income was 1.32 trillion yen (US $13 billion, +371%), net income 962.1 billion yen (US$9.47 billion, +339%).
2. What is the point of having a contest if you're not going to pick the winner?
They should not hold a naming contest if they're just going to pick the names they want anyway.
The IAU makes these decisions.
Showalter's contest was no more than a publicity stunt. That said, the rules were clear.
For two weeks in February, anyone with a computer could vote for their favorite names, or suggest ideas of their own. The caveats: Names needed to represent characters bearing more than just a passing relation to Pluto, the Greek god of the underworld, and must not have already been bestowed upon a celestial solar system object.
Apple and Google need to reduce options because they have to appeal to the clueless masses. You do not.
The primary source of funding for the development of Firefox is the add click. Firefox will survive only for so long as the "clueless masses" support it.
Sorry my friend, but most of the VPN services used for this end do not keep records and are in places where they are not required to. Who the hell would use a VPN in US, land of the corporations?
I admire the geek's willingness to trust services based five to ten thousand miles distant whose true allegiances cannot be known.
No, it's a reasonable assumption given the actual Unix writer demographics and given the somewhat non-descript first name.
But absolute proof that a poster hasn't clicked on any of the links in the story --- all three of which describe Evi as female and the Wikipedia bio including a photograph.
Our nice little series of tubes is not going to be diminished if "the movie studios remove movies from the web" in any significant way. It's the movie studios that will be diminished and, likely, quickly outcompeted in the marketplace. I think it's time to start full-stop calling all the bluffs.
Netflix has 30 million subscribers in the US. That is about 1 in 3 broadband subscribers in the states.
The geek is a voracious consumer of big budget mass produced pop culture.
Dr Who. Star Trek. Star Wars....
The list goes on and on and on. Disney owns Marvel Comics and Lucas, everything Star Wars. Warner has Batman and the DC universe. HBO, Game of Thrones.
Yes. We risk ''walling off'' Sony, Disney and the rest...
Wow. A web the way I liked it, before big-media and commercial presence sought to replicate the AOL experience.:-)
At its peak, AOL's membership was over 30 million members worldwide, most of whom accessed the AOL service through the AOL software suite. AOL was ranked fourth (behind the Web, email, and graphic user interfaces) in a 2007 USA Today retrospective on the 25 events that shaped the first 25 years of the Internet and was named to the ".com 25" by a panel of Silicon Valley influencers on the occasion of the same anniversary.
In January 2013, Netflix reported they had added 2 million U.S. customers during the 4th quarter of 2012 with a total of 27.1 million U.S. streaming customers, and 29.4 million total streaming customers. In addition, revenue was up 8% to $945 million for the same period.
As of mid-March 2013, Netflix had 33 million subscribers. That number increased to 36.3 million subscribers (29.2 million in U.S.) in April 2013.
We are at the point where fifty percent of all broadband subscribers are ---- or very soon will be --- subscribers to one or more content protected media services. Services which are branching out into original production and a broader range of services.
iTunes becomes iRadio and iRadio becomes iVideo and iVideo becomes iGames, iBook, iNews and so on.
That can happen within the walled gardens of the app and app store or it can happen within the context of the more open and accessible web browser.
Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, China, North Korea... the list goes on... and none of them are building dozens of massive data centers for the sole purpose of spying wholesale on its own citizens.
How can you possibly know that what you saying is true or false?
Not that you need the high-tech data center if your people have no contact with the outside world.
You won't find people in North Korea checking Facebook or Twitter for the latest updates on the tense situation created by its leader, Kim Jong Un. That's because the nation of 24 million is largely shut out from the Internet. Few outside the government and military have ever been online.
''In North Korea, we don't see evidence that much of anyone has access,'' Jim Cowie, chief technology officer and co-founder of Renesys, which does global Internet measurement, told NBC News.
''You don't see banks or factories or universities attached to the Internet,'' he said. ''In North Korea, Internet is extremely limited. They don't have those resources. There's basically one service provider and that is state-controlled.''
The country's Internet access physically comes through from China, he said, supplemented ''sometimes'' by a satellite provider.
So much so that North Korea was named one of 12 ''enemies'' of the Internet last year by Reporters Without Borders, which monitors censorship globally. ''We still consider North Korea as an enemy of the Internet,'' Delphine Hagland, the group's director in Washington, D.C., told NBC News. Other countries making that list included China, Iran, Syria and Vietnam.
There aren't many other sources of information available in North Korea, which according to the CIA World Factbook, has ''no independent media,'' with ''radios and TVs... pre-tuned to government stations.''
Caleb created a do-it-yourself controller for people with physical challenges using a 3-D printer
How durable are the 3D printed parts?
Is this commercial or hobbyist grade custom 3D printing?
What are the recommended standards for similar assistive technologies?
Size of the buttons. The maximum pressure or minimum resistance required and so on.
If you are going to take on a project like this, why aren't you talking to the medical and social service agencies who work with the disabled? That could lead to a generalized solution and not a one-off for a single patient at single stage of his disease.
The open source and royalty free vp9/opus combination sounds like an very compelling option for the html5 video tag, and may become a de facto standard before h.265 is widely deployed. Hardware support for vp9 is also in the works.
There about 30 h.264 licensors and 1200 h.264 licensees. The licensors are giants in manufacturing and R&D. The licensees are on the same scale --- with an enormous global reach in video production and distribution, consumer electronics, telecommunications, industrial and military applications, etc., etc.
MPEG LA has two great strengths.
The first it that it licensees advanced video codecs for all applications.
The second is that its codecs are guaranteed universal support in hardware and software --- in every link of the chain from the video camera to the video display,
Technological novice or not he had a better handle on the definition of "operating system" than many of the readers here. A solitaire game or web browser is not part of the computer operating system but instead just an application that comes with it. Rely on textbook definitions and not MS marketing.
Users have never been interested in the geek's textbook definitions.
They are shopping for systems. They like consistency. In-store demos. The out-of-the-box experience. Core applications which share a common look and feel with the desktop or mobile UI. Bare bones doesn't sell worth spit.
"Peter Jackson to shoot prequel to box office behemoth LOTR on location in New Zealand. Surprising no one."
Essentially the whole of Middle Earth has been mapped to locations in New Zealand. The Lord of the Rings film locations Your production facilities are there. Your costs are known.
You will in the end have six big budget feature length films that will look as if they were shot in the same world and time because they were shot in the same world and time. It is a strategy that has paid off handsomely for Warner Brothers before,
Once you jump through all those loops, who will you be talking to?
Real spies like to keep things simple. They do not stand out from the crowd.
When stopped for a traffic violation they will be plausibly dressed for their age and class, respectably sober, and carrying a single iPhone or a Nexus, not a satchel of burners.
What about the CRT work of Ferdinand Braun, the Nipkow disk, the 1929 work of Francis Jenkins in the USA?
Mechanical scanning is a viable solution if you are building a fax machine or a still video camera for extreme conditions. Your Martian lander, for example.
But for full motion video it sucks rocks.
Especially if you have only the tech of the 1920s - 1030s to work with. A practical system might deliver a bare 30-60 lines of resolution at 15 to 30 fps --- and the lighting requirements were brutally punishing for any live model.
As for businesses choosing MS over Linux, I suppose you don't wander into many server rooms. I know in ones I've been in, there are as many or more Linux servers than Windows servers.
Who just wanders into a server room?
Most of us are content to simply curse the administrator.
How many of those Linux servers are direct descendants of the UNIX servers which preceded them?
Juveniles get different sentences to adults. "Vigilante Hacker" is an adult and the reported possible sentence is "maximum possible" which is quite different to "an actual sentence".
Rape is almost always prosecuted under state law.
The number of juveniles prosecuted under federal law for any crime is so low as to be almost non-existent.
This adult hacker is being prosecuted under federal law.
The feds don't welcome intrusions into networks and systems that cross state lines and international borders --- and they don't much care about the alleged purity of the hacker's motives.
If your definition of a desktop OS is running "windows centric apps" then I can see why Linux sucks for you. As a desktop for me it's fabulous. I can do anything I need to do on a Linux desktop and the only place I find the need to use another OS is in video editing.
But since damn near everything of interest in OSX and LINUX is ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app, if you are comfortable in the Windows environment there is no compelling reason to leave it.
Slashdot Mirror
One wonders what would could be saved if things like pyramids and tombs are used to save a cubic ass tonne of knowledge.
Tombs are raided.
I think my boss uses excel for simple formulas and for lists. I use Excel for anything not quite worthy of a Matlab script, so OpenOffice doesn't quite measure up for me but should work fine for my boss.
Your boss isn't interested in what you think.
What he needs is an office suite -- or integrated office system -- that can be deployed across the enterprise.
It doesn't matter if any single component is overkill for some so long as it works for all. Including temps, trainees, volunteers and so on.
I'm sorry Dodge, Toyota, Honda and all your friends; you simply can't compete.
I think perhaps they can.
In 2010, Toyota employed 325,905 people worldwide, and was the third-largest automobile manufacturer in 2011 by production behind General Motors and Volkswagen Group. Toyota is the eleventh-largest company in the world by revenue. In July 2012, the company reported it had manufactured its 200-millionth vehicle.
On May 8, 2013, Toyota Motor Corporation announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013. Net revenues totaled 22.0 trillion yen (US$ 216.7 billion, +18.7%). Operating income was 1.32 trillion yen (US $13 billion, +371%), net income 962.1 billion yen (US$9.47 billion, +339%).
Toyota
2. What is the point of having a contest if you're not going to pick the winner?
They should not hold a naming contest if they're just going to pick the names they want anyway.
The IAU makes these decisions.
Showalter's contest was no more than a publicity stunt. That said, the rules were clear.
For two weeks in February, anyone with a computer could vote for their favorite names, or suggest ideas of their own. The caveats: Names needed to represent characters bearing more than just a passing relation to Pluto, the Greek god of the underworld, and must not have already been bestowed upon a celestial solar system object.
The People Have Spoken, and Pluto's Tiny Moons Have Names
Vulcan --- Hephaestus --- god of fire and forge, fails on both counts.
I can attest to the lack of backdoors in SELinux. I am the SELinux maintainer. I'm the guy responsible for it.
Then the only question remaining is whether we should trust you.
Apple and Google need to reduce options because they have to appeal to the clueless masses. You do not.
The primary source of funding for the development of Firefox is the add click. Firefox will survive only for so long as the "clueless masses" support it.
Sorry my friend, but most of the VPN services used for this end do not keep records and are in places where they are not required to. Who the hell would use a VPN in US, land of the corporations?
I admire the geek's willingness to trust services based five to ten thousand miles distant whose true allegiances cannot be known.
If they sell you out you have no recourse.
No, it's a reasonable assumption given the actual Unix writer demographics and given the somewhat non-descript first name.
But absolute proof that a poster hasn't clicked on any of the links in the story --- all three of which describe Evi as female and the Wikipedia bio including a photograph.
Our nice little series of tubes is not going to be diminished if "the movie studios remove movies from the web" in any significant way. It's the movie studios that will be diminished and, likely, quickly outcompeted in the marketplace. I think it's time to start full-stop calling all the bluffs.
Netflix has 30 million subscribers in the US. That is about 1 in 3 broadband subscribers in the states.
The geek is a voracious consumer of big budget mass produced pop culture.
Dr Who. Star Trek. Star Wars....
The list goes on and on and on. Disney owns Marvel Comics and Lucas, everything Star Wars. Warner has Batman and the DC universe. HBO, Game of Thrones.
Yes. We risk ''walling off'' Sony, Disney and the rest... :-)
Wow. A web the way I liked it, before big-media and commercial presence sought to replicate the AOL experience.
At its peak, AOL's membership was over 30 million members worldwide, most of whom accessed the AOL service through the AOL software suite. AOL was ranked fourth (behind the Web, email, and graphic user interfaces) in a 2007 USA Today retrospective on the 25 events that shaped the first 25 years of the Internet and was named to the ".com 25" by a panel of Silicon Valley influencers on the occasion of the same anniversary.
AOL
Netflix has 30 million subscribers in the US.
There are 86 million broadband subscribers in the US. 1 in 3 subscribes to Netflix.
The geek lives for day when the Internet is once again his private playground.
It is never going to happen.
In January 2013, Netflix reported they had added 2 million U.S. customers during the 4th quarter of 2012 with a total of 27.1 million U.S. streaming customers, and 29.4 million total streaming customers. In addition, revenue was up 8% to $945 million for the same period.
As of mid-March 2013, Netflix had 33 million subscribers. That number increased to 36.3 million subscribers (29.2 million in U.S.) in April 2013.
Netflix
There are about 86 million broadband subscribers in the US. List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions
We are at the point where fifty percent of all broadband subscribers are ---- or very soon will be --- subscribers to one or more content protected media services. Services which are branching out into original production and a broader range of services.
iTunes becomes iRadio and iRadio becomes iVideo and iVideo becomes iGames, iBook, iNews and so on.
That can happen within the walled gardens of the app and app store or it can happen within the context of the more open and accessible web browser.
But it can't be stopped.
Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, China, North Korea... the list goes on... and none of them are building dozens of massive data centers for the sole purpose of spying wholesale on its own citizens.
How can you possibly know that what you saying is true or false?
Not that you need the high-tech data center if your people have no contact with the outside world.
You won't find people in North Korea checking Facebook or Twitter for the latest updates on the tense situation created by its leader, Kim Jong Un. That's because the nation of 24 million is largely shut out from the Internet. Few outside the government and military have ever been online.
''In North Korea, we don't see evidence that much of anyone has access,'' Jim Cowie, chief technology officer and co-founder of Renesys, which does global Internet measurement, told NBC News.
''You don't see banks or factories or universities attached to the Internet,'' he said. ''In North Korea, Internet is extremely limited. They don't have those resources. There's basically one service provider and that is state-controlled.''
The country's Internet access physically comes through from China, he said, supplemented ''sometimes'' by a satellite provider.
So much so that North Korea was named one of 12 ''enemies'' of the Internet last year by Reporters Without Borders, which monitors censorship globally. ''We still consider North Korea as an enemy of the Internet,'' Delphine Hagland, the group's director in Washington, D.C., told NBC News. Other countries making that list included China, Iran, Syria and Vietnam.
There aren't many other sources of information available in North Korea, which according to the CIA World Factbook, has ''no independent media,'' with ''radios and TVs ... pre-tuned to government stations.''
North Korea's Internet? What Internet? For most, online access doesn't exist
Come on, "bridging the distance" between the west and east coasts? We all know how fast light travels...
We also know that the central states are central.
That a commercially viable transcontinental infrastructure of roads, railroads and telegraph lines was in place here by1870-1880.
Caleb created a do-it-yourself controller for people with physical challenges using a 3-D printer
How durable are the 3D printed parts?
Is this commercial or hobbyist grade custom 3D printing?
What are the recommended standards for similar assistive technologies?
Size of the buttons. The maximum pressure or minimum resistance required and so on.
If you are going to take on a project like this, why aren't you talking to the medical and social service agencies who work with the disabled? That could lead to a generalized solution and not a one-off for a single patient at single stage of his disease.
The open source and royalty free vp9/opus combination sounds like an very compelling option for the html5 video tag, and may become a de facto standard before h.265 is widely deployed. Hardware support for vp9 is also in the works.
There about 30 h.264 licensors and 1200 h.264 licensees. The licensors are giants in manufacturing and R&D. The licensees are on the same scale --- with an enormous global reach in video production and distribution, consumer electronics, telecommunications, industrial and military applications, etc., etc.
MPEG LA has two great strengths.
The first it that it licensees advanced video codecs for all applications.
The second is that its codecs are guaranteed universal support in hardware and software --- in every link of the chain from the video camera to the video display,
French Tennis Open sees first live HEVC broadcast
Technological novice or not he had a better handle on the definition of "operating system" than many of the readers here. A solitaire game or web browser is not part of the computer operating system but instead just an application that comes with it. Rely on textbook definitions and not MS marketing.
Users have never been interested in the geek's textbook definitions.
They are shopping for systems. They like consistency. In-store demos. The out-of-the-box experience. Core applications which share a common look and feel with the desktop or mobile UI. Bare bones doesn't sell worth spit.
For some of us, you've already lost the sale. Always on internet is a killer for many of us, since it's mostly taking away our freedom.
When is a geek wth broadband service ever off line?
PC. Chromebook, HDTV, Set-Top Box or Video Game Console. VoIP. Smartphones. Tablets. E-book Readers...
What's serious about a game? Seriously.
At a trade show?
Production, marketing and distribution.
The booth babes tell me that this is a game or genre that is past its prime. Duke Nukem Forever, not Bioshock: Infinite.
You can only buy if someone is willing to sell to you, no matter the size of your purse
That someone, however, can be a group of stockholders with a controlling interest in your company.
It can be someone you owe a great deal of money --- someone who can force a change in management, ownership, or outright liquidation,
"Peter Jackson to shoot prequel to box office behemoth LOTR on location in New Zealand. Surprising no one."
Essentially the whole of Middle Earth has been mapped to locations in New Zealand. The Lord of the Rings film locations Your production facilities are there. Your costs are known.
You will in the end have six big budget feature length films that will look as if they were shot in the same world and time because they were shot in the same world and time. It is a strategy that has paid off handsomely for Warner Brothers before,
Once you jump through all those loops, who will you be talking to?
Real spies like to keep things simple. They do not stand out from the crowd.
When stopped for a traffic violation they will be plausibly dressed for their age and class, respectably sober, and carrying a single iPhone or a Nexus, not a satchel of burners.
What about the CRT work of Ferdinand Braun, the Nipkow disk, the 1929 work of Francis Jenkins in the USA?
Mechanical scanning is a viable solution if you are building a fax machine or a still video camera for extreme conditions. Your Martian lander, for example.
But for full motion video it sucks rocks.
Especially if you have only the tech of the 1920s - 1030s to work with. A practical system might deliver a bare 30-60 lines of resolution at 15 to 30 fps --- and the lighting requirements were brutally punishing for any live model.
As for businesses choosing MS over Linux, I suppose you don't wander into many server rooms. I know in ones I've been in, there are as many or more Linux servers than Windows servers.
Who just wanders into a server room?
Most of us are content to simply curse the administrator.
How many of those Linux servers are direct descendants of the UNIX servers which preceded them?
Juveniles get different sentences to adults. "Vigilante Hacker" is an adult and the reported possible sentence is "maximum possible" which is quite different to "an actual sentence".
Rape is almost always prosecuted under state law.
The number of juveniles prosecuted under federal law for any crime is so low as to be almost non-existent.
This adult hacker is being prosecuted under federal law.
The feds don't welcome intrusions into networks and systems that cross state lines and international borders --- and they don't much care about the alleged purity of the hacker's motives.
If your definition of a desktop OS is running "windows centric apps" then I can see why Linux sucks for you. As a desktop for me it's fabulous. I can do anything I need to do on a Linux desktop and the only place I find the need to use another OS is in video editing.
But since damn near everything of interest in OSX and LINUX is ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app, if you are comfortable in the Windows environment there is no compelling reason to leave it.