MS Access was a big improvement over dBase IV for databases, and Lotus 1-2-3 for things that should have been put in a database but were put in a spreadsheet because the person who put them there had no clue about databases.
I've got an HP Stream 14. Celeron N4000, 4GB RAM, 32 GB eMMC. $219 at Wally World, Much nicer than my old Acer Aspire One ZG5 with an Atom N270, 1GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, which was $400 at Microcenter back in the day. Both run Linux
The first univrsity I worked for bought me a $10K Apple ][ system. 64K, 3 floppy drives, color and monochrome monitors, Z80 card, CP/M, Wordstar, dot matrix printer, daisy wheel printer, and a FORTRAN compiler for CP/M
Microsoft actually has a significant amount of metrics on what features people actually use in Word. As it turns out, beyond the core set of common features nearly everyone uses, it turns out that the bulk of the "unnecessary" features are used by a small percentage of people, but the distribution of who uses those features is spread out very broadly. Some people rely on mail-merge features, some require the review features, while others need support for more advanced page layout features. But they're typically not the same customers. So in reality, there's no mythical "90% of unneeded features" they can cut without making the software nearly useless to a very high percentage of their customers.
Ok, so why not a core for the features nearly everyone uses, and a plugin system for the remainder in which the user can install any needed additional features. For that matter, why not the same for libreoffice?
I rather liked Quattro Pro. Found a few of my old QP spreadsheets while rummaging through some old floppies a few months ago. Turns out that on December 31, 1994, I had $5.09 in my Navy Fed account
No overheating problem with a 64 GB SanDisk Ultra Fit on my HP Stream 11. It gets warm, but definitely not hot. And it doesn't seem to be any slower than the internal eMMC.
Interesting place to visit, but I woyuldn't want to live there. Spent a few days in Coober Pedy during January, 1992 when I was working down south in Woomera. Pretty much a ghost town at that time of year. Crocodile Harry's was a hoot. Took a day trip with a fellow who delivered mail to some of the stations to the east. 300 km on dirt roads for six deliveries.
I've taken the gondola up Mt. San Jacinto (at 10,833, it's only about 6x higher than Mad Mike's maximum height), and I've hiked to the top of Mt. Whitney. Both were very worthwhile. I've been to Amboy, but never attempted to leave via rocket. Am I missing a bucket list-worthy experience?
I like having a computer that I can use when not connected to the internet, 'forever'. Not one that can't deal with that.
I bought my first personal computer, an Apple II clone, back in 1982 because I did not want to have to be connected to some other machine to be able to do whatever it was I wanted to do with my computer, whenever I wanted to do it.
This just looks like Microsoft's answer to Google's Chrome OS.
Carbon Engineering uses a liquid system, with calcium oxide and water.
Calcium oxide is most commonly made by heating limestone:
CaCO3 -> CaO + CO2
Looks like all we're doing here is recovering the CO2 used to create the CaO
Haven't used gedit since I abandoned Gnome when the move from Gnome2 to Gnome3. I've been using geany for several years now, first with XFCE, then with LXDE, and now with Mate as my DE. Does everything I need, doesn't get in my way, and I find the interface quite comfortable.
Sure. I'm responding from it now. It's partially inertia (I started with RH 5 using CDs in the back of a book I checked out of the local library), but mainly because it just works. Of course, there are a number of other distros that also just work, but I've not encountered a compelling reason to switch.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the next Wikileaks dump talk about how the NSA sent agents to get hired at Best Buy to get access to this machine so they could reverse engineer the iPhone's security.
Maybe NSA already has one of these machines, so Apple figures they may as well make them available to third parties, too.
I got out of there 53 years ago. When I was a kid it was full of little farms and things like that but now it's been plastered over with dull poorly built suburbs. Back then, our suburbs weren't poorly built.
Not in the first course offered at my end of campus. Not sure what the business folks offered. The second course in the intro sequence introduced a number of different languages. Not being a CS major, I only took the first course.
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Anyone who believes any particular investment strategy is a can't lose strategy is an idiot.
AceCalc - Franklin's version of VisiCalc for their Ace 100 computer
MS Access was a big improvement over dBase IV for databases, and Lotus 1-2-3 for things that should have been put in a database but were put in a spreadsheet because the person who put them there had no clue about databases.
I've got an HP Stream 14. Celeron N4000, 4GB RAM, 32 GB eMMC. $219 at Wally World, Much nicer than my old Acer Aspire One ZG5 with an Atom N270, 1GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, which was $400 at Microcenter back in the day. Both run Linux
The first univrsity I worked for bought me a $10K Apple ][ system. 64K, 3 floppy drives, color and monochrome monitors, Z80 card, CP/M, Wordstar, dot matrix printer, daisy wheel printer, and a FORTRAN compiler for CP/M
I've got a couple of 1 GB Atom N270 netbooks. Both run Mate DEs. One runs Ubuntu 18.04, the other Fedora 28.
Microsoft actually has a significant amount of metrics on what features people actually use in Word. As it turns out, beyond the core set of common features nearly everyone uses, it turns out that the bulk of the "unnecessary" features are used by a small percentage of people, but the distribution of who uses those features is spread out very broadly. Some people rely on mail-merge features, some require the review features, while others need support for more advanced page layout features. But they're typically not the same customers. So in reality, there's no mythical "90% of unneeded features" they can cut without making the software nearly useless to a very high percentage of their customers.
Ok, so why not a core for the features nearly everyone uses, and a plugin system for the remainder in which the user can install any needed additional features. For that matter, why not the same for libreoffice?
I rather liked Quattro Pro. Found a few of my old QP spreadsheets while rummaging through some old floppies a few months ago. Turns out that on December 31, 1994, I had $5.09 in my Navy Fed account
No overheating problem with a 64 GB SanDisk Ultra Fit on my HP Stream 11. It gets warm, but definitely not hot. And it doesn't seem to be any slower than the internal eMMC.
Interesting place to visit, but I woyuldn't want to live there. Spent a few days in Coober Pedy during January, 1992 when I was working down south in Woomera. Pretty much a ghost town at that time of year. Crocodile Harry's was a hoot. Took a day trip with a fellow who delivered mail to some of the stations to the east. 300 km on dirt roads for six deliveries.
I've taken the gondola up Mt. San Jacinto (at 10,833, it's only about 6x higher than Mad Mike's maximum height), and I've hiked to the top of Mt. Whitney. Both were very worthwhile. I've been to Amboy, but never attempted to leave via rocket. Am I missing a bucket list-worthy experience?
It's not exactly rocket surgery,
I don't do rocket surgery, but I do have been known to do rock surgery (cut open rocks and sometimes even extract individual mineral grains).
I like having a computer that I can use when not connected to the internet, 'forever'. Not one that can't deal with that.
I bought my first personal computer, an Apple II clone, back in 1982 because I did not want to have to be connected to some other machine to be able to do whatever it was I wanted to do with my computer, whenever I wanted to do it. This just looks like Microsoft's answer to Google's Chrome OS.
Some things never change. Back in the day, the appropriate follow-on was, "They should be learning Word Processing, not WordStar or WordPerfect.
Above 1 TB only geeks and IT companies care.
And 640K of memory should be enough for anybody.
Carbon Engineering uses a liquid system, with calcium oxide and water.
Calcium oxide is most commonly made by heating limestone: CaCO3 -> CaO + CO2 Looks like all we're doing here is recovering the CO2 used to create the CaO
My thought, exactly!
You ain't lived until you've watched your deck of punched cards get totally randomized because you dropped them on the floor. I know. I've lived.
I checked in July. Love's, Pilot, and Flying J still have maps and atlases.
Haven't used gedit since I abandoned Gnome when the move from Gnome2 to Gnome3. I've been using geany for several years now, first with XFCE, then with LXDE, and now with Mate as my DE. Does everything I need, doesn't get in my way, and I find the interface quite comfortable.
Sure. I'm responding from it now. It's partially inertia (I started with RH 5 using CDs in the back of a book I checked out of the local library), but mainly because it just works. Of course, there are a number of other distros that also just work, but I've not encountered a compelling reason to switch.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the next Wikileaks dump talk about how the NSA sent agents to get hired at Best Buy to get access to this machine so they could reverse engineer the iPhone's security.
Maybe NSA already has one of these machines, so Apple figures they may as well make them available to third parties, too.
I got out of there 53 years ago. When I was a kid it was full of little farms and things like that but now it's been plastered over with dull poorly built suburbs. Back then, our suburbs weren't poorly built.
I'm not an engineer. I'm not a rocket scientist. But I am a rock scientist.
No ALGOL or COBOL where you were?
Not in the first course offered at my end of campus. Not sure what the business folks offered. The second course in the intro sequence introduced a number of different languages. Not being a CS major, I only took the first course.