'show me the list' Awesome. This is why LibreOffice is still a 'doesn't matter'.
This attitude is what keeps you wondering why it hasn't taken over the world.
Get out of your basement, work in the real world with real companies exchanging documents with other companies, editing on both sides and then get back to me.
Its the same reason EVERYONE uses the SAME version of various Adobe products.
And here we are 13 years later and you still don't get that just knowing technology is not the same as knowing how to use technology to fit the businesses needs. Maybe in another 7 you'll finally catch up to what he had over you.
I can get them to orbit FAR cheaper than SpaceX or NASA. Of course, they won't be able to do a thing when they get there as they'll be dead or otherwise damaged beyond usefulness. You can design a gun capable of lobbing things into space, the Gs from initial acceleration would destroy your people and cargo however.
Yes, if you ignore everything SpaceX got out of the Shuttle program then sure, the numbers look great.
The didn't invent rocketry, they've improved on research done before them by NASA and things like the Shuttle program.
Admittedly, NASA and the Shuttle program didn't invent it either... but a metric fuckton of shit used today to make Falcon work WAS invented to make the Shuttle program work.
Thats not even to mention that you included ALL R&D costs in the shuttle, but none in SpaceX.
The 'breaking apart' was an intentional jettison of a panel to ensure any other actual issues would limit exposure to the rest of the craft. It was just like the safety blow off value on a water heater. Unacceptable tolorences were detected and the craft compensated to mitigate damage and ensure continued flight.
The 'break apart' was by design and couldn't have been a better example of designing for failure and still winning the game.
Its really not that hard. For small scale things, the controller hardware costs you about $400. You don't even need to actually know what you're doing, theres software to do the hard work for you. If you wanted to be really cheap you could put a minor amount of effort into modding something like the Ardupilot for rocket engines, though I don't know where you'd fine a controllable rocket engine on the cheap.
I hate to burst your bubble, but companies that stay in business don't use LibreOffice. They have to get work done, not worry about a political agenda and trivial 'cost'.
Why do so many people fail to understand that the cost of MS Office is ALWAYS less than one weeks salary, therefor the cost is irrelevant as a business expense. Once you stop thinking about cost, theres no intelligent reason to use an inferior product like LibreOffice. If you don't realize its inferior then you don't actually function in the real business world.
Many companies TRY the cloud and TRY to integrate it into their workflow... then realize they can't, since you can't customize the cloud to suit your needs, you take what they give you.
You can integrate your workflow with Office, you can't with Google. You can't make Gmail plugins with any meaningful capabilities. You can't extend Docs in any way that matters.
Hardly. I'm no MS fanboy, but Google's apps are a joke for businesses. The word processor and spreadsheet apps are not anywhere close to being something people want to use. My wife and I use it for sharing some spreadsheets and notes, its kind of like a tablet. Yea, its cool and all, but if you want to get real work done, its not what you use.
More important, Google is removing features to top it off, and adding things that no one cares about. For example, killing proper active sync... I'd give you an example of a feature they've added but I don't care about them so I can't even be bothered to remember.
Dismissals of Apple we bad. Dismissals of Linux were reasonably accurate in the desktop space, though it does have a good run in the dirt cheap servers market until you factor in the number of companies held hostage by some douche admin. Facebook is a passing fad and its clear to any intelligent business on the planet. Thats not to say that those businesses aren't going to profit from that fad as it goes screaming by. Outside of search, Google isn't really owning anything. Android is a race to the bottom. Yes, they have a flagship device or 3 that almost doesn't suck, but its popularity isn't with decent devices, its with free phones that might as well be running some properitary OS as they are so weak and feable you really don't get any of the advantages Android brings to the table.
Google may one day beat out Windows and Office, but it won't be with anything they currently have offered. I have a couple friends who are employed by Google and thus are Google fanboys, they rant on about how awesome it is and how you don't need offline apps or Microsoft/Apple and then every time we go somewhere we end up in a situation where they can't do something I can. My wife likes her Nexus 7, but she'd rather have an iPad mini. Yes this is anecdotal, but its pretty common outside the fanboy arena.
Microsoft may be throwing some spin on it, but they are hardly going to disappear anytime soon due to Google's current offerings anymore than Apple's current offerings are going to put them out of business. Facebook is still irrelevant.
Thats just because you're too stupid to realize how nice it is not to have an infected dick on a regular basis in exchange for something you have absolutely no memory of.
You're the only other person apart from myself I've known to state that it wasn't such a big sacrifice after all. Congrats and thankyou.
Of course thats only true if he knew he would be resurrected. I don't really recall having the foreknowledge of such things as part of the story.
And that, if nothing else, is why I consider Christianity as pure garbage unfortunately.
Well, that just makes you ignorant. Religion, even without the actual existence of a God serves many purposes. Sometimes it is twisted to do bad things, most of the time it isn't. Saying its 'pure garbage' just shows you don't understand it at all, neither the bad parts or the good parts.
Whats to get excited about, this just causes problems for legitimate extensions.
Fact: Dirty/Malware extensions can work around it by just sitting whatever flags need to be set where ever they need to be set to make Chrome think they are approved.
Fact: Legit extensions installed with other software will now at the minimum need an annoying popup to allow them, or worse, digging through menus to figure out how to term them on instead of 'just working'.
Fact: Google will exempt itself from this practice.
As someone who wrote extensions for Firefox until we got tired of supporting its broken every release API, it was trivial to work around this sort of crap with firefox, the same will be true of Chrome.
Most ACTUAL reefs are deep under water and have been studied very little and as far as current data suggests aren't nearly as frail as shallow water reefs.
Again, this is OMG LETS PANIC PEOPLE type of response.
Yes, you're pretty barrier reef may turn brown, but it really isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.
Foxconn invested 200 million in the company... only in fantasy land does that value the company at billions. Even IF you give face value for stock (doesn't actually work that way in reality) then they'd still need to actually sell those stocks. They haven't.
Valuation != actual value. Its a fantasy number made up so people who don't understand stocks think the stock is worth more than it is.
Its not even public company. You can't just go buy stock in it. The valuation is just as much fantasy as Frodo and The One Ring.
Just a hint for your future trolling, the instant you had to throw in the 'red' comment, you made it clear that you're just pushing a political agenda and not trying to have a meaningful discussion.
Congratulations, you're a fucking politically motivated douche who will be first in line to cut off your nose to spite your face.
WTF? I have a distinct feeling you think far more of yourself than you are actually worth. Gathering specs makes a career now? I don't think so.
Perhaps you don't actually know as much as you think you do and someone else realizes the project may be a fuckton bigger than you realize?
The fact that you're asking 'how do I play well with others' on slashdot leads me to believe you're just a young whipper-snapper that doesnt' really realize how small of a part you have to play.
Because these guys are just behaving like lunatic assholes.
Using a shitty distro that beyond any doubt will not work right on the hardware they are trying to force it on.
Standing in front of a business taking advantage of business resources to spew their fanatical views on people who clearly have no interest in it.
What events like this do is turn people off to Linux. Do you like solicitors? No one does. My like RMS throwing a temper tantrum and eating his own toe jam, it just goes to make 'them' look like morons. They could be saying something useful (they aren't) and they would still get ignored because they look like raving nutters.
I DID get one with a built in battery for about $20 from the local Kohl's department store. What makes you think its so hard? What they were offering is something they couldn't deliver as they were promising to sell you Apple tech BEFORE Apple released it and BEFORE they had permission to do so... in fact, it was BEFORE THEY EVEN ASKED.
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'show me the list' Awesome. This is why LibreOffice is still a 'doesn't matter'.
This attitude is what keeps you wondering why it hasn't taken over the world.
Get out of your basement, work in the real world with real companies exchanging documents with other companies, editing on both sides and then get back to me.
Its the same reason EVERYONE uses the SAME version of various Adobe products.
And here we are 13 years later and you still don't get that just knowing technology is not the same as knowing how to use technology to fit the businesses needs. Maybe in another 7 you'll finally catch up to what he had over you.
I can get them to orbit FAR cheaper than SpaceX or NASA. Of course, they won't be able to do a thing when they get there as they'll be dead or otherwise damaged beyond usefulness. You can design a gun capable of lobbing things into space, the Gs from initial acceleration would destroy your people and cargo however.
As was said, cost is not the only issue.
Yes, if you ignore everything SpaceX got out of the Shuttle program then sure, the numbers look great.
The didn't invent rocketry, they've improved on research done before them by NASA and things like the Shuttle program.
Admittedly, NASA and the Shuttle program didn't invent it either ... but a metric fuckton of shit used today to make Falcon work WAS invented to make the Shuttle program work.
Thats not even to mention that you included ALL R&D costs in the shuttle, but none in SpaceX.
Adding to your thought ...
The 'breaking apart' was an intentional jettison of a panel to ensure any other actual issues would limit exposure to the rest of the craft. It was just like the safety blow off value on a water heater. Unacceptable tolorences were detected and the craft compensated to mitigate damage and ensure continued flight.
The 'break apart' was by design and couldn't have been a better example of designing for failure and still winning the game.
Its really not that hard. For small scale things, the controller hardware costs you about $400. You don't even need to actually know what you're doing, theres software to do the hard work for you. If you wanted to be really cheap you could put a minor amount of effort into modding something like the Ardupilot for rocket engines, though I don't know where you'd fine a controllable rocket engine on the cheap.
I hate to burst your bubble, but companies that stay in business don't use LibreOffice. They have to get work done, not worry about a political agenda and trivial 'cost'.
Why do so many people fail to understand that the cost of MS Office is ALWAYS less than one weeks salary, therefor the cost is irrelevant as a business expense. Once you stop thinking about cost, theres no intelligent reason to use an inferior product like LibreOffice. If you don't realize its inferior then you don't actually function in the real business world.
Many companies TRY the cloud and TRY to integrate it into their workflow ... then realize they can't, since you can't customize the cloud to suit your needs, you take what they give you.
You can integrate your workflow with Office, you can't with Google. You can't make Gmail plugins with any meaningful capabilities. You can't extend Docs in any way that matters.
Hardly. I'm no MS fanboy, but Google's apps are a joke for businesses. The word processor and spreadsheet apps are not anywhere close to being something people want to use. My wife and I use it for sharing some spreadsheets and notes, its kind of like a tablet. Yea, its cool and all, but if you want to get real work done, its not what you use.
More important, Google is removing features to top it off, and adding things that no one cares about. For example, killing proper active sync ... I'd give you an example of a feature they've added but I don't care about them so I can't even be bothered to remember.
Dismissals of Apple we bad. Dismissals of Linux were reasonably accurate in the desktop space, though it does have a good run in the dirt cheap servers market until you factor in the number of companies held hostage by some douche admin. Facebook is a passing fad and its clear to any intelligent business on the planet. Thats not to say that those businesses aren't going to profit from that fad as it goes screaming by. Outside of search, Google isn't really owning anything. Android is a race to the bottom. Yes, they have a flagship device or 3 that almost doesn't suck, but its popularity isn't with decent devices, its with free phones that might as well be running some properitary OS as they are so weak and feable you really don't get any of the advantages Android brings to the table.
Google may one day beat out Windows and Office, but it won't be with anything they currently have offered. I have a couple friends who are employed by Google and thus are Google fanboys, they rant on about how awesome it is and how you don't need offline apps or Microsoft/Apple and then every time we go somewhere we end up in a situation where they can't do something I can. My wife likes her Nexus 7, but she'd rather have an iPad mini. Yes this is anecdotal, but its pretty common outside the fanboy arena.
Microsoft may be throwing some spin on it, but they are hardly going to disappear anytime soon due to Google's current offerings anymore than Apple's current offerings are going to put them out of business. Facebook is still irrelevant.
But then, we can't teach people how to drink booze sensibly
Yes we can, we in fact HAVE. We've also taught people how to use guns sensibly.
That will never stop a few people with mental defects from going outside the norm and doing something bad.
You're a shining example of your own statement. You're hysterical over non-existent issues.
Because making sex 'no big deal' would also make it 'a lot less fun to fuck in the back seat of a car', or whatever floats your boat.
There are advantages to trivial things being 'taboo'.
Thats just because you're too stupid to realize how nice it is not to have an infected dick on a regular basis in exchange for something you have absolutely no memory of.
You're the only other person apart from myself I've known to state that it wasn't such a big sacrifice after all. Congrats and thankyou.
Of course thats only true if he knew he would be resurrected. I don't really recall having the foreknowledge of such things as part of the story.
And that, if nothing else, is why I consider Christianity as pure garbage unfortunately.
Well, that just makes you ignorant. Religion, even without the actual existence of a God serves many purposes. Sometimes it is twisted to do bad things, most of the time it isn't. Saying its 'pure garbage' just shows you don't understand it at all, neither the bad parts or the good parts.
Whats to get excited about, this just causes problems for legitimate extensions.
Fact: Dirty/Malware extensions can work around it by just sitting whatever flags need to be set where ever they need to be set to make Chrome think they are approved.
Fact: Legit extensions installed with other software will now at the minimum need an annoying popup to allow them, or worse, digging through menus to figure out how to term them on instead of 'just working'.
Fact: Google will exempt itself from this practice.
As someone who wrote extensions for Firefox until we got tired of supporting its broken every release API, it was trivial to work around this sort of crap with firefox, the same will be true of Chrome.
Retaining copyright and coding for free are not mutually exclusive.
It's only misunderstanding GPL zealots who think that.
Yea, perhaps if all reefs died.
But thats not whats actually happening.
Most ACTUAL reefs are deep under water and have been studied very little and as far as current data suggests aren't nearly as frail as shallow water reefs.
Again, this is OMG LETS PANIC PEOPLE type of response.
Yes, you're pretty barrier reef may turn brown, but it really isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.
Stop being a tool.
Especially since the actual number given in the article (rather than the retarded summary) is 1.15 billion.
No, don't read the retarded summary.
Foxconn invested 200 million in the company ... only in fantasy land does that value the company at billions. Even IF you give face value for stock (doesn't actually work that way in reality) then they'd still need to actually sell those stocks. They haven't.
Valuation != actual value. Its a fantasy number made up so people who don't understand stocks think the stock is worth more than it is.
Its not even public company. You can't just go buy stock in it. The valuation is just as much fantasy as Frodo and The One Ring.
Just a hint for your future trolling, the instant you had to throw in the 'red' comment, you made it clear that you're just pushing a political agenda and not trying to have a meaningful discussion.
Congratulations, you're a fucking politically motivated douche who will be first in line to cut off your nose to spite your face.
WTF? I have a distinct feeling you think far more of yourself than you are actually worth. Gathering specs makes a career now? I don't think so.
Perhaps you don't actually know as much as you think you do and someone else realizes the project may be a fuckton bigger than you realize?
The fact that you're asking 'how do I play well with others' on slashdot leads me to believe you're just a young whipper-snapper that doesnt' really realize how small of a part you have to play.
You certainly are arrogant enough.
Because these guys are just behaving like lunatic assholes.
Using a shitty distro that beyond any doubt will not work right on the hardware they are trying to force it on.
Standing in front of a business taking advantage of business resources to spew their fanatical views on people who clearly have no interest in it.
What events like this do is turn people off to Linux. Do you like solicitors? No one does. My like RMS throwing a temper tantrum and eating his own toe jam, it just goes to make 'them' look like morons. They could be saying something useful (they aren't) and they would still get ignored because they look like raving nutters.
No, Apple would have these assholes tazered and be done with it ;)
Buy a prebuilt machine from someone like Dell. Problem solved. Plenty of those 'just work'
Nothing preventing you ... OTHER THAN THE SPEC ITSELF.
It stops being USB when it stops adhearing to the spec.
I DID get one with a built in battery for about $20 from the local Kohl's department store. What makes you think its so hard? What they were offering is something they couldn't deliver as they were promising to sell you Apple tech BEFORE Apple released it and BEFORE they had permission to do so ... in fact, it was BEFORE THEY EVEN ASKED.
Dumbasses.