KOffice is different from OO and MSOffice in that it has a clean codebase and is written for a toolkit which actually also is used for something else. Even microsoft doesn't eat its own dogfood and steers clear of dot net for MSOffice. In this way KOffice must be faster growing and could have a nice future.
I mean, even your average plod starting Outlook on Vista, is starting dozens of fancy visualisation thingies, anti-spam algorithms, networking things... Properly programmed, it can be torn apart in hundreds of tasks. It is not going to speed up your terminal window, no. But does your terminal window need speeding up?
The Belgian company Umicore specialises in this. They extract all the rare stuff. For some of it there is only one cubic meter available on the entire earth! linky: link
Like when you get an email with a VCARD attachment? How about allowing me to save it in my contacts instead of just deleting it? Or a VCalendar attachment? A small button saying "Copy to calender"? Pretty pretty please please please?
Remember the floppy disc? As it became more older and senile, there was a frantic rush to find a replacement. The Zip drive was the closest contestant, but Iomega refused to let a tidal wave of cheap OEM drives loose on the public. So the floppy was replaced by... nothing. CD's, were used for software distribution, tape for backup, the net for sneakernet and the memory stick for booting. Expect the same to happen here. UPNP media players and the net will kick Blue-ray's ass.
I live in Denmark and this country is a notorious Microsoft bitch. MS has a development center here, most large companies are pure MS-shops and the government is not exactly doing great efforts to look beyond Redmond shrink-wrap. Heck, even the crown prince wife is an ex-MS employee!
If you are a virgin you can get laid defending the net: and she looks good too!
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You are talking about a typical transatlantic or transcontinental 5-8 hours jetlag. they are indeed easy to overcome. As far as I understand, an 8-12 hour trip (London-Sydney/Tokyo) is a whole different story.
Because safety is a non-issue? You see there are two possibilities. Either you develop a safe system, or you make all your customers pay a little extra to cover for the thieving. In a huge market like the US, and with no real push to go for safety, bankers will do what bankers do best: they will think in money, not in safety (read: engineering). RFID on the other hand, has the possibility to make payments easier. With the payment going faster, shops will need fewer cashiers, customers get the impression things are going faster, everybody wins! It is realy social security all over again. Americans have to pay less taxes, because they don't spend so much on keeping the poor of the street. The money they spend on guns, alarm systems, private security is conveniently forgotten. I mean tax is like, well..tax. The fact that you pay for armed security every time you buy a tshirt in the mall, well that is not tax now is it?
My brother is a DA. Getting a conviction is less than 50% of his job. The majority of his time goes to finding out where the poor helpless bankrupt criminals have hidden their stash. (And he is really good at it;-)
If you consider going in IT, a lot of people in IT end up like this! Think of it this way: when did you last say: "it is so cool my internet connection is up today! Maybe I should write a thank you note to my ISP!". IT is a service function and often you will only hear your customers when there are complaints. I studied chemistry, and know a lot about IT. Well there are a lot of places which will only hire chemists / doctors / lawyers / accountants/whatevers, "because we outsource IT". But in all these places, somebody who can help you with your IT problem right here right now is worth its weight in gold. I 'd say that as a non-IT chemist I would earn 20% less then I do now. As a non chemist IT-er, probably even worse.
Funny how americans cling desperately to their right to bear arms. But the biggest weapon of them all, the general knowledge required to see through possible lies and spin comming from Washington, that one gets dumped by the roadside.
If you can exploit a laptop in this contest you get to keep it? Why would you want a laptop that you know is insecure? Euuuuh.... to install Linux on it?
They want to get the business users, they better give a pretty good look to Exchange / Lotus notes compatibility. Being able to read your mail is not going to cut it. Searching in the public contacts, booking a meeting room, those are things a Windows Mobile user takes for granted.
If this is super-stable-hacker-resistant then there must be some uses where performance is not really an issue: ATM's, Kiosks,... Does anybody know what software exists for this thing? Does it run IE?
What is the big thing about spending your money privately? Every time you buy a T shirt at the local mall, part of your money goes to paying the security guy. Here in Denmark, supermarkets don't have security staff, because the crime rates are so low. For every DKK I spend on social security, Americans have to spend a dollar on guns, alarm systems, private security and jails. But yeah, you get to choose the make of alarm system....
Here in Denmark, the former state owned telco just decided to outsource the complete network, both mobile and fixed. They want to concentrate on their core business: selling subscriptions. On the other hand, you see Google looking for dark fiber and wireless spectrum. The borders between client, content server and carrier are getting more diffuse. Hopefully, the increasing chaos is going to make it more difficult for the control freaks to build a non-free ^H^H^H^H^H , I mean, more secure internet.
They had 164 lasers with different colours sending 100 Gbps EACH over the same fiber, splitting the colours apart again at the other end with what probably is a little more advanced than a prism.
Yeah, and when the Godfather asks when his next shipment of snow is due, you answer: "somewhere between 2 and 3 months from now, just keep on checking that beach, man!".
is that anybody with some VBA knowledge will sooner or later get access to other peoples Excel sheets in order to fix problems. This is just a form of social engineering. Once you sit in front of the PC, logged in as another user and telling that gratefull person you get nervous when other people look you on the fingers while you try to solve a complex problem...
Another interesting point is "Rights-creep". Often people are given acces rights as they move between functions, but these rights are never revoked when moving on to the next...
Why? Nokia does not make OS'es or IDE's. They make mobile phones, and they are pretty fucking good at it. If they get a good QT, they can release multiplatform PC software for synching their phones to Any OS(TM). The more it is open, the better the quality will be. Remember they are competing against Windows Mobile. I have a HTC and I have to say, under windows the cooperation between PC and mobile is near perfect. (I miss writing SMS-es from the PC keyboard though...). Having a cross-platform, open and good quality dev platform will help them whacking MS where it hurts. I, for one,.....;-)
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KOffice is different from OO and MSOffice in that it has a clean codebase and is written for a toolkit which actually also is used for something else. Even microsoft doesn't eat its own dogfood and steers clear of dot net for MSOffice. In this way KOffice must be faster growing and could have a nice future.
I mean, even your average plod starting Outlook on Vista, is starting dozens of fancy visualisation thingies, anti-spam algorithms, networking things...
Properly programmed, it can be torn apart in hundreds of tasks. It is not going to speed up your terminal window, no. But does your terminal window need speeding up?
The Belgian company Umicore specialises in this. They extract all the rare stuff. For some of it there is only one cubic meter available on the entire earth!
linky: link
Like when you get an email with a VCARD attachment? How about allowing me to save it in my contacts instead of just deleting it? Or a VCalendar attachment? A small button saying "Copy to calender"? Pretty pretty please please please?
Remember the floppy disc? As it became more older and senile, there was a frantic rush to find a replacement. The Zip drive was the closest contestant, but Iomega refused to let a tidal wave of cheap OEM drives loose on the public. So the floppy was replaced by ... nothing. CD's, were used for software distribution, tape for backup, the net for sneakernet and the memory stick for booting. Expect the same to happen here. UPNP media players and the net will kick Blue-ray's ass.
I live in Denmark and this country is a notorious Microsoft bitch. MS has a development center here, most large companies are pure MS-shops and the government is not exactly doing great efforts to look beyond Redmond shrink-wrap. Heck, even the crown prince wife is an ex-MS employee!
If you are a virgin you can get laid defending the net: and she looks good too!
You are talking about a typical transatlantic or transcontinental 5-8 hours jetlag. they are indeed easy to overcome. As far as I understand, an 8-12 hour trip (London-Sydney/Tokyo) is a whole different story.
Because safety is a non-issue? You see there are two possibilities. Either you develop a safe system, or you make all your customers pay a little extra to cover for the thieving. In a huge market like the US, and with no real push to go for safety, bankers will do what bankers do best: they will think in money, not in safety (read: engineering). RFID on the other hand, has the possibility to make payments easier. With the payment going faster, shops will need fewer cashiers, customers get the impression things are going faster, everybody wins!
It is realy social security all over again. Americans have to pay less taxes, because they don't spend so much on keeping the poor of the street. The money they spend on guns, alarm systems, private security is conveniently forgotten. I mean tax is like, well..tax. The fact that you pay for armed security every time you buy a tshirt in the mall, well that is not tax now is it?
My brother is a DA. Getting a conviction is less than 50% of his job. The majority of his time goes to finding out where the poor helpless bankrupt criminals have hidden their stash. (And he is really good at it ;-)
If you consider going in IT, a lot of people in IT end up like this! Think of it this way: when did you last say: "it is so cool my internet connection is up today! Maybe I should write a thank you note to my ISP!". /whatevers, "because we outsource IT". But in all these places, somebody who can help you with your IT problem right here right now is worth its weight in gold. I 'd say that as a non-IT chemist I would earn 20% less then I do now. As a non chemist IT-er, probably even worse.
IT is a service function and often you will only hear your customers when there are complaints. I studied chemistry, and know a lot about IT. Well there are a lot of places which will only hire chemists / doctors / lawyers / accountants
Funny how americans cling desperately to their right to bear arms. But the biggest weapon of them all, the general knowledge required to see through possible lies and spin comming from Washington, that one gets dumped by the roadside.
it was Adobes fault, not Microsoft! Let's all switch to Silverlight and we will be OK!!!!
I don't care if it is just in-flight entertainment. You need to be seriously suicidal to get into a plane containing anything SCO
Isn't the whole freakin point of GMail that you don't have to backup?
They want to get the business users, they better give a pretty good look to Exchange / Lotus notes compatibility. Being able to read your mail is not going to cut it. Searching in the public contacts, booking a meeting room, those are things a Windows Mobile user takes for granted.
If this is super-stable-hacker-resistant then there must be some uses where performance is not really an issue: ATM's, Kiosks,... Does anybody know what software exists for this thing? Does it run IE?
What is the big thing about spending your money privately? Every time you buy a T shirt at the local mall, part of your money goes to paying the security guy. Here in Denmark, supermarkets don't have security staff, because the crime rates are so low. For every DKK I spend on social security, Americans have to spend a dollar on guns, alarm systems, private security and jails. But yeah, you get to choose the make of alarm system....
Here in Denmark, the former state owned telco just decided to outsource the complete network, both mobile and fixed. They want to concentrate on their core business: selling subscriptions. On the other hand, you see Google looking for dark fiber and wireless spectrum. The borders between client, content server and carrier are getting more diffuse. Hopefully, the increasing chaos is going to make it more difficult for the control freaks to build a non-free ^H^H^H^H^H , I mean, more secure internet.
They had 164 lasers with different colours sending 100 Gbps EACH over the same fiber, splitting the colours apart again at the other end with what probably is a little more advanced than a prism.
Yeah, and when the Godfather asks when his next shipment of snow is due, you answer: "somewhere between 2 and 3 months from now, just keep on checking that beach, man!".
That is because it is written in nano-ink. Get out your magnifier glass.
is that anybody with some VBA knowledge will sooner or later get access to other peoples Excel sheets in order to fix problems. This is just a form of social engineering. Once you sit in front of the PC, logged in as another user and telling that gratefull person you get nervous when other people look you on the fingers while you try to solve a complex problem...
Another interesting point is "Rights-creep". Often people are given acces rights as they move between functions, but these rights are never revoked when moving on to the next...
Why? Nokia does not make OS'es or IDE's. They make mobile phones, and they are pretty fucking good at it. If they get a good QT, they can release multiplatform PC software for synching their phones to Any OS(TM). The more it is open, the better the quality will be. Remember they are competing against Windows Mobile. I have a HTC and I have to say, under windows the cooperation between PC and mobile is near perfect. (I miss writing SMS-es from the PC keyboard though...). Having a cross-platform, open and good quality dev platform will help them whacking MS where it hurts. I, for one,..... ;-)