And if you do that, you are rightfully considered a problem by your IT department. It is really no surprise that automatizing things using Excel is absolutely forbidden in many large companies.
Cannot reproduce this. I think you messed up somewhere obvious. Of course, if you have EPS with explicit orientation instructions in there, landscape printing will be broken. But that is a) not the fault of LibreOffice and b) you cannot even really import these files in MS office.
I have used LibreOffice for presentations and some text work for quite a while. My take is that you do not save much (but also do not pay more) on the template side. You do save on the license fees, and suddenly you are not OS-locked anymore. (I have had zero problems moving documents between Linux and Windows version of LibreOffice). In addition, you get rid of the brain-dead "ribbon" interface that wastes precious vertical screen area. And another angle is that ODF fulfills archiving requirements that MS-Office formats do not and where you have to convert everything to PDF-A or invest even more effort on MS Office. With LibreOffice you just archive the ODF documents people are saving anyways.
So as a tactical move, it has limited merit, but as a strategic move, anybody staying with MS Office is just stupid.
That actually works reasonably well with subversion as well. You may have to invest part of the money you safe into storage though. My employer does it to simplify storage and backup, i.e. everything worth keeping goes into SVN. We do not have really large things in there (like videos) though, but we have encrypted blobs up to around 100MB, for example. Supposedly, SVN has problems when you get into the GB-range for single files, but we never encountered any.
My guess would be that this is more of a case of people using what they know.
As its primary purpose is to siphon money off to MS, what do you expect? This is basically an attempt to force the console-model on any PC running Windows 10.
Indeed, same here. Raise of "left wing parties"? Where?
To be fair, viewed from the strong right-wing vs. ultra right-wing political system of the US, most right-wing and centrist political parties on Europe would probably look "left".
The purpose of "Big Government" is not and never has been to serve the people. It is to always have a loyal army of bureaucrats handy to enforce the will of those in power on the people. Inefficiency, bloat, arcane and often destructive laws, waste, corruption, etc. are all part of that package. Having a light-weight efficient government was always an option, technology is not needed for that. Some countries have that type of government, and much lower taxes in addition, without having worse infrastructure or services for the people. One thing that is always critically needed for that is that the bureaucrats need direct approval from the population for anything that costs a lot or makes things less efficient or more complicated. They rarely get that, because no customer of a bureaucracy has ever liked its ways. Left to its own devices, a bureaucracy will always try very hard to "bind" (i.e. destroy) as much time and resources of others it can get.
The space for source code version controls is covered fine with SVN and Git, there is zero need to use of or move to a commercial tool, regardless of it being Open Source or free for some uses. Sure, some companies are still using them, but even very large customers I have been working for are using SVN or even Git these days, and often not even via a commercial front-end.
That ship has sailed, for almost all uses this problem is now FOSS solved and likely will stay that way. This, incidentally, is what FOSS is all about: Good quality open and free software for standard computing tasks that are well understood and are only slowly changing. And once that state is reached for a task, somebody creating artificial scarcity by making sure the only tools are locked, commercial ones, is just doing economic damage, but not producing any additional wealth.
Without a working and verified Grand Unifying Theory (GUT) in Physics, this cannot be done. And we are probably farther removed from achieving that than ever. This is, as presented, nothing but a scam, masking as Science.
Perhaps we don't because we really are all rule breakers.
Or at least anybody with any worth to society is. If you follow all the rules, you will not be doing anything else with your life, never even take the risk to think something not approved. A society that limits all rule-breaking too strictly stagnates pretty fast and eventually fails.
The thing is, the US prison industry _wants_ repeat customers. There is a lot of money in it. Hence anything even remotely targeted at reintegrating former criminals gets squashed, to extreme overall costs for society.
Indeed. "Tough on crime" does not work, or rather it has the opposite of the intended effect. That has been known reliably for a long, long time. Criminals do not expect to be caught, and hence penalties do not figure in their motivation. And then not giving them a good chance to become part of society again after they were caught, just makes the problem much, much worse.
The cave-man reflex of just applying more violence to anything undesirable makes basically every problem worse, but being cave-men, its proponents are not equipped to even grasp simple statistics that say they are doing it wrong. Incidentally, the same effect is at work with the "War on Drugs" that has created huge crime-cartels and a lot of users that suffer entirely preventable damage due to contaminated drugs or that have to do crime due to artificially and massively inflated prices. Or the "War on Terror" that has created a lot of new terrorists by killing inconceivable numbers of innocent bystanders.
Applying violence to a problem is about the most base and most stupid thing you can do. The only thing more stupid is to apply more violence when the approach fails.
Well, the US is at hart a fundamentalist religious nation. These like to condemn and torture anybody that missteps forever, no mercy to be had. (What, say, the core of the Christian faith says about people that do this to others is not pretty.) Hence adding the maximum level of exploitation on top is no surprise. Kind of reminds me of what was going on in Nazi Concentration Camps and USSR Gulags, or today in similar installations in North Korea. The next step will be involuntary medical experiments. Josef Mengele would be so proud.
Establish a GeStaPo, have it behave like a GeStaPo. This is really no surprise to anybody with at least a passing familiarity with human history.
Incidentally, the establishment of a GeStaPo is one of the main miliesones on the way to a full-blown police-state and then totalitarianism as final step. As the US is too large for a coalition of the righteous to free them from the tyranny the US population is currently in the process of cheering in, the only way out will be total economic collapse, and then a slow rebuild. Say 100 years of darkness that makes the US shown in "The Man in the High Castle" look like a paradise.
The stupidity of some IT people is staggering. We had one case where they put AV on a highly isolated system and then had to compromise its isolation to allow over-the-net updates. When we told them that the system was not isolated anymore and that at the very least the AV vendor could now attack them over the network, they did not even understand what we were talking about. They mumbled something about "all machines must have AV".
In my experience, a design-flaw this fundamental is due to coders that do not understand system administration and networking and have no clue about the failure-modes to be expected. Quite common these days.
What kind of messed-up device. This has been solved for ages. First, if the logs are critical, make a local copy. And second, if you send them off, use UDP so that network failures or failure of the remote logger does not block anything on the local machine. You know, like rsyslogd. But I guess this is just another example of cheaper-than-possible "programmers" at work, the kind that does not understand system administration or networking.
The thing is the "choice" here is something that a very simple quasi-mechanical subsystem can do, and people will just delegate that way to the base mechanisms provided by their bodies. You do not decide where to exactly put your feet either, you decide about the general direction, start the process, and your body takes over and does the walking with all the details and extreme fine-control that involves. That mechanism is not too smart, whenever my motor cortex thinks it can accelerate my writing, I can see that it has only a very rough grasp of language. But it is fast and it has autonomous emergency reflexes that are _very_ useful. Probably saved my life several times by now. While these biological carrier-systems suck in some regards, they are pretty nifty in others.
He does not. And there is not even a need to be religious to believe in some form of reincarnation. Science is completely neutral (as in "we have no clue") on the question at this time, no matter what quasi-religious "physicalists" claim.
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And if you do that, you are rightfully considered a problem by your IT department. It is really no surprise that automatizing things using Excel is absolutely forbidden in many large companies.
Cannot reproduce this. I think you messed up somewhere obvious. Of course, if you have EPS with explicit orientation instructions in there, landscape printing will be broken. But that is a) not the fault of LibreOffice and b) you cannot even really import these files in MS office.
I have used LibreOffice for presentations and some text work for quite a while. My take is that you do not save much (but also do not pay more) on the template side. You do save on the license fees, and suddenly you are not OS-locked anymore. (I have had zero problems moving documents between Linux and Windows version of LibreOffice). In addition, you get rid of the brain-dead "ribbon" interface that wastes precious vertical screen area. And another angle is that ODF fulfills archiving requirements that MS-Office formats do not and where you have to convert everything to PDF-A or invest even more effort on MS Office. With LibreOffice
you just archive the ODF documents people are saving anyways.
So as a tactical move, it has limited merit, but as a strategic move, anybody staying with MS Office is just stupid.
That actually works reasonably well with subversion as well. You may have to invest part of the money you safe into storage though. My employer does it to simplify storage and backup, i.e. everything worth keeping goes into SVN. We do not have really large things in there (like videos) though, but we have encrypted blobs up to around 100MB, for example. Supposedly, SVN has problems when you get into the GB-range for single files, but we never encountered any.
My guess would be that this is more of a case of people using what they know.
As its primary purpose is to siphon money off to MS, what do you expect? This is basically an attempt to force the console-model on any PC running Windows 10.
Indeed, same here. Raise of "left wing parties"? Where?
To be fair, viewed from the strong right-wing vs. ultra right-wing political system of the US, most right-wing and centrist political parties on Europe would probably look "left".
The purpose of "Big Government" is not and never has been to serve the people. It is to always have a loyal army of bureaucrats handy to enforce the will of those in power on the people. Inefficiency, bloat, arcane and often destructive laws, waste, corruption, etc. are all part of that package. Having a light-weight efficient government was always an option, technology is not needed for that. Some countries have that type of government, and much lower taxes in addition, without having worse infrastructure or services for the people. One thing that is always critically needed for that is that the bureaucrats need direct approval from the population for anything that costs a lot or makes things less efficient or more complicated. They rarely get that, because no customer of a bureaucracy has ever liked its ways. Left to its own devices, a bureaucracy will always try very hard to "bind" (i.e. destroy) as much time and resources of others it can get.
The space for source code version controls is covered fine with SVN and Git, there is zero need to use of or move to a commercial tool, regardless of it being Open Source or free for some uses. Sure, some companies are still using them, but even very large customers I have been working for are using SVN or even Git these days, and often not even via a commercial front-end.
That ship has sailed, for almost all uses this problem is now FOSS solved and likely will stay that way. This, incidentally, is what FOSS is all about: Good quality open and free software for standard computing tasks that are well understood and are only slowly changing. And once that state is reached for a task, somebody creating artificial scarcity by making sure the only tools are locked, commercial ones, is just doing economic damage, but not producing any additional wealth.
Probably the shameless and extreme lie currently on display here:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Without a working and verified Grand Unifying Theory (GUT) in Physics, this cannot be done. And we are probably farther removed from achieving that than ever. This is, as presented, nothing but a scam, masking as Science.
Perhaps we don't because we really are all rule breakers.
Or at least anybody with any worth to society is. If you follow all the rules, you will not be doing anything else with your life, never even take the risk to think something not approved. A society that limits all rule-breaking too strictly stagnates pretty fast and eventually fails.
The thing is, the US prison industry _wants_ repeat customers. There is a lot of money in it. Hence anything even remotely targeted at reintegrating former criminals gets squashed, to extreme overall costs for society.
Indeed. "Tough on crime" does not work, or rather it has the opposite of the intended effect. That has been known reliably for a long, long time. Criminals do not expect to be caught, and hence penalties do not figure in their motivation. And then not giving them a good chance to become part of society again after they were caught, just makes the problem much, much worse.
The cave-man reflex of just applying more violence to anything undesirable makes basically every problem worse, but being cave-men, its proponents are not equipped to even grasp simple statistics that say they are doing it wrong. Incidentally, the same effect is at work with the "War on Drugs" that has created huge crime-cartels and a lot of users that suffer entirely preventable damage due to contaminated drugs or that have to do crime due to artificially and massively inflated prices. Or the "War on Terror" that has created a lot of new terrorists by killing inconceivable numbers of innocent bystanders.
Applying violence to a problem is about the most base and most stupid thing you can do. The only thing more stupid is to apply more violence when the approach fails.
Well, the US is at hart a fundamentalist religious nation. These like to condemn and torture anybody that missteps forever, no mercy to be had. (What, say, the core of the Christian faith says about people that do this to others is not pretty.) Hence adding the maximum level of exploitation on top is no surprise. Kind of reminds me of what was going on in Nazi Concentration Camps and USSR Gulags, or today in similar installations in North Korea. The next step will be involuntary medical experiments. Josef Mengele would be so proud.
Establish a GeStaPo, have it behave like a GeStaPo. This is really no surprise to anybody with at least a passing familiarity with human history.
Incidentally, the establishment of a GeStaPo is one of the main miliesones on the way to a full-blown police-state and then totalitarianism as final step. As the US is too large for a coalition of the righteous to free them from the tyranny the US population is currently in the process of cheering in, the only way out will be total economic collapse, and then a slow rebuild. Say 100 years of darkness that makes the US shown in "The Man in the High Castle" look like a paradise.
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In that case, this is about armed robbery, and how much was stolen is actually completely irrelevant.
It is a question of cost. A Linux/QNX/BSD coder is expensive. A Windows coder is cheap, hence more profit.
The stupidity of some IT people is staggering. We had one case where they put AV on a highly isolated system and then had to compromise its isolation to allow over-the-net updates. When we told them that the system was not isolated anymore and that at the very least the AV vendor could now attack them over the network, they did not even understand what we were talking about. They mumbled something about "all machines must have AV".
In my experience, a design-flaw this fundamental is due to coders that do not understand system administration and networking and have no clue about the failure-modes to be expected. Quite common these days.
What kind of messed-up device. This has been solved for ages. First, if the logs are critical, make a local copy. And second, if you send them off, use UDP so that network failures or failure of the remote logger does not block anything on the local machine. You know, like rsyslogd. But I guess this is just another example of cheaper-than-possible "programmers" at work, the kind that does not understand system administration or networking.
Too expensive. Medical equipment already comes with an often insane price-tag.
The thing is the "choice" here is something that a very simple quasi-mechanical subsystem can do, and people will just delegate that way to the base mechanisms provided by their bodies. You do not decide where to exactly put your feet either, you decide about the general direction, start the process, and your body takes over and does the walking with all the details and extreme fine-control that involves. That mechanism is not too smart, whenever my motor cortex thinks it can accelerate my writing, I can see that it has only a very rough grasp of language. But it is fast and it has autonomous emergency reflexes that are _very_ useful. Probably saved my life several times by now. While these biological carrier-systems suck in some regards, they are pretty nifty in others.
Same here. But this is not the norm and a "coding camp" would probably just bore you out of your wits.
He does not. And there is not even a need to be religious to believe in some form of reincarnation. Science is completely neutral (as in "we have no clue") on the question at this time, no matter what quasi-religious "physicalists" claim.