The market isn't closed, but really, there is not a single office suite that seriously competes with MS Office. Any MAJOR company that has tried has BLED money...and lost.
Modded troll because the truth hurts? Name one that even approaches half the market penetration. There aren't. I'm not saying its right, I'm not saying Office, especially the new version, is good, I'm just saying that this is a very difficult market to enter, even for a major company.
The market isn't closed, but really, there is not a single office suite that seriously competes with MS Office. Any MAJOR company that has tried has BLED money...and lost.
Whole new bunch of acronyms are coming down the pipe. I don't think all are web, and may not be associated with a particular OS or file format. Microsoft just trade marked, patented and are looking for fast track ISO approval of the following:
SUP
ERCA
LIFR
AGILIST
ICEX
PIA
LIDOC
IOUS
This according to an attorney in their IP department, M. Poppins.
To expect a child to choose a career at that age is ridiculous
I think the choice of the word "career" is a poor example.
In Japan, the high school does set one up for a career, where some schools are set up as college prep, some as technical, and others as low level vocational. Despite years of denying it, they still have a burakumin mondai (er...problem).
In the U.S. students are forced to take some classes that they will never have an interest in. There are the general ed classes that everyone takes, but why make a computer geek take wood shop when his/her taste tends towards business. Then again, why make a guy who is comfortable with autoshop take a class in journalism? This is nothing like the Japanese system, its just allowing students to declare an interest.
However, I think the problem in schools today is that we've got too much other crap going on. I think think it should be laid out:
A school week should be 40 Hours, including 30 minute lunch.
Freshman Year - Straight General Education courses and PE, no free study periods, no electives(by the way, if you can't perform to some sort of HS standard in a subject, you should be allowed into HS. A remedial system should be set up outside of the normal HS. Flunk the kids and they will learn.)
Sophomore Year - A single elective is allowed, the rest of the course work is the same as the Freshman year. NO WORK RELEASE.
Junior Year - 3 electives, as long as proficiency is met in the General Ed. courses. Extended General Ed. would include Social Studies, higher sciences, and higher math. PE still required. 3 hours/wk of work release allowed. Independant study is strictly controlled and not easy to get.
Senior Year - PE still required, work release can go to 1 hour/day, independant study is permitted for one period per day, remaining load can be half electives/half extended General Ed.
Class advancements are based on end of year tests for subject matter covered that year. Master the year, go to the next. Social advancement ends.
You know what, I've had that argument with younger coders. That old stuff did amazing things. And, I think the reason thats true is because it was made to run in limited memory while leaving enough room for input and system. Then, it had super slow processors.
I'm in the Windows and web realm now-a-days. No matter whether a Linux/Sun/MS system, I see too many coders throwing the kitchen sink into their code. I stopped one young guy and asked why he needed system.drawing in his web app, now this was ready for production. He said, he might through some drawing in later. So, he was throughing a humongous amount of overhead includes for something he thought he might do later, even though the spec never called for it. Another kid, yes he was 28 year old kid. Genius by his own account, who written a lot of tools for his own use and every project he had, he'd through those tools into the code "just for good measure". Try to tell that genius about the bad old days of coding and making it fit by being creative. No, they have it easy today and write crap compared to what others were doing. I still run into old collegues and they are still writing some of the tightest code in world. One even has a book out there about writing compilers.
God, those were the days. I still go back to old games to play them. Whether in DOS VMs, MAME, or old hardware.
Remember running the basic program to print the manual? Damn, it was long and I had to babysit the pin feed so the paper stayed on track, that old Epson never could get tension right.
This was fun. I remember running it on a teletype terminal in programming class (damn, thats old) BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG. You couldn't do a quick CLS to hide the evidence when the instructor came by, "Do you think paper grows on trees?" he yell. Of course all was forgiven when we showed him our course work was done. Then, he made us write our own dungeon code.
Much later, Don Brown(?) came out with EAMON, with a write your own framework. Fun fun fun.
1. And it came to pass that the Prophet, Holiness and Peace be upon him, did rise up in the morning and despaired.
2. Behold, a vision I have had, he spoke.
3. God has shown me a terrible vision of heretics and wolves amongst the fold, those who deny his Holy Word the
Third GPL.
4. And the Prophet went out unto the People of GNU and raise up his hand from the holiness of his loins, for he had been chatting, and said, I declare a holy fudwah upon the heretic Linus. From this point hence, he shall suffer the wrath of the/. masses.
5. And it came to pass that they rose up, worshiping his glory, and put on their AC guises and did post great numbers of words.
Orson Scott Card, has been stirring things up recently, and makes some damning statements regarding global warming, saying it is time for scientist to abandon the faked data of the "Church of Global Warming".
It is time for us to laugh at the ideologues who try to pretend that any criticism of Global Warming alarmism is idiotic and unscientific. They are the ones who ignore the data; they are the ones who believe on faith alone, without evidence; and, most important, they are the ones who are trying to stifle the opposition without answering it. The Global Warming alarmists are the anti-science religion that is trying to forcibly indoctrinate and convert everyone while suppressing dissent. And the news media are their patsies, their stooges, their puppets.
That's like saying the Spanish weren't forcing Catholic conversion on the Indians, the Indians were choosing it because it was better than the alternative, torture and death.
Honestly, the blame is not Microsoft's. It is the community. OSS under GPL3 is fast approaching the stance of the Catholic Church as recently expounded by the Pope. In otherwords, "its all or nothing", "you're either with us, or against us", and so forth.
GPL2 was fine, the lessers are fine. But, brow beating projects into GPL3 is going to make the community rebel, and these people are all about rebellion.
The split is not happening because of MS, it is because of RMS, all holiness to his name.
When would you have time? My Gods, I went there, expecting it to be like the Johnson Space Center, a half day diversion. WRONG. We spent the entire day, I was thoroughly geeked out, spent more at their gift shop than I did in 3 subsequent days at Disney World, and almost as much as we spent in Nassau on the cruise the previous week.
KSC has got to be one of the best National tours around. The only thing better is the Smithsonian Air and Space, and a close third to the KSC is the museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. All three are full day experiences.
Cook himself died at the hand of uppity native Hawaiian - they paid the price eventually, of course.
It is reported that the Hawaiian chieftan was offended by Cook joking around with his daughter. Cook reportedly said, "Kamanaiwannalaiya." It is still unclear in most historians minds as to whether it was the insult to the daughter or the use of a really bad Hawaiian joke that caused the chief to order Cook's execution.
Remember the fly around stuff the XFL used? They had a ton of cameras stationed around the stadium and then used software to fill in the gaps. It was one of the cool things that came out of that abomination. On playback, they would fly around the scene and you could get a better idea of what the QB or receiver sees.
Now that they are bringing the technology to the home user this could be really cool, being in control of the fly around.
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Modded troll because the truth hurts? Name one that even approaches half the market penetration. There aren't. I'm not saying its right, I'm not saying Office, especially the new version, is good, I'm just saying that this is a very difficult market to enter, even for a major company.
The market isn't closed, but really, there is not a single office suite that seriously competes with MS Office. Any MAJOR company that has tried has BLED money...and lost.
Whole new bunch of acronyms are coming down the pipe. I don't think all are web, and may not be associated with a particular OS or file format. Microsoft just trade marked, patented and are looking for fast track ISO approval of the following:
This according to an attorney in their IP department, M. Poppins.
The sound of it is quite atrocious.
Does anyone have insight on these?
I think the choice of the word "career" is a poor example.
In Japan, the high school does set one up for a career, where some schools are set up as college prep, some as technical, and others as low level vocational. Despite years of denying it, they still have a burakumin mondai (er...problem).
In the U.S. students are forced to take some classes that they will never have an interest in. There are the general ed classes that everyone takes, but why make a computer geek take wood shop when his/her taste tends towards business. Then again, why make a guy who is comfortable with autoshop take a class in journalism? This is nothing like the Japanese system, its just allowing students to declare an interest.
However, I think the problem in schools today is that we've got too much other crap going on. I think think it should be laid out:
So, in short, people would rather have a pirated copy of XP than Linux. Saw that coming.
There, corrected that headline. Cause, you know it's TRUE.
Veritas, baby, yeah!
Where the hell am I getting "through" for "throw". I need intellisense, bad, or is it badly? Damn. Should have taken English instead of CS classes.
You know what, I've had that argument with younger coders. That old stuff did amazing things. And, I think the reason thats true is because it was made to run in limited memory while leaving enough room for input and system. Then, it had super slow processors.
I'm in the Windows and web realm now-a-days. No matter whether a Linux/Sun/MS system, I see too many coders throwing the kitchen sink into their code. I stopped one young guy and asked why he needed system.drawing in his web app, now this was ready for production. He said, he might through some drawing in later. So, he was throughing a humongous amount of overhead includes for something he thought he might do later, even though the spec never called for it. Another kid, yes he was 28 year old kid. Genius by his own account, who written a lot of tools for his own use and every project he had, he'd through those tools into the code "just for good measure". Try to tell that genius about the bad old days of coding and making it fit by being creative. No, they have it easy today and write crap compared to what others were doing. I still run into old collegues and they are still writing some of the tightest code in world. One even has a book out there about writing compilers.
God, those were the days. I still go back to old games to play them. Whether in DOS VMs, MAME, or old hardware.
Remember running the basic program to print the manual? Damn, it was long and I had to babysit the pin feed so the paper stayed on track, that old Epson never could get tension right.
Wasn't this an episode of "Spooks" ("MI:5" in America)
Spooks Brain? "Brain and Brain, what is Brain?"
This was fun. I remember running it on a teletype terminal in programming class (damn, thats old) BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG. You couldn't do a quick CLS to hide the evidence when the instructor came by, "Do you think paper grows on trees?" he yell. Of course all was forgiven when we showed him our course work was done. Then, he made us write our own dungeon code.
Much later, Don Brown(?) came out with EAMON, with a write your own framework. Fun fun fun.
Coined "fudwah" in another stallman, all holiness to his name, post.
1. And it came to pass that the Prophet, Holiness and Peace be upon him, did rise up in the morning and despaired.
2. Behold, a vision I have had, he spoke.
3. God has shown me a terrible vision of heretics and wolves amongst the fold, those who deny his Holy Word the Third GPL.
4. And the Prophet went out unto the People of GNU and raise up his hand from the holiness of his loins, for he had been chatting, and said, I declare a holy fudwah upon the heretic Linus. From this point hence, he shall suffer the wrath of the /. masses.
5. And it came to pass that they rose up, worshiping his glory, and put on their AC guises and did post great numbers of words.
Thank you for actually responding to the post rather than the tangent strawman of the Mormon Church that followed.
Orson Scott Card, has been stirring things up recently, and makes some damning statements regarding global warming, saying it is time for scientist to abandon the faked data of the "Church of Global Warming".
Ah, the Minnisotans are reading /. this morning.
The really sad news is that the BMW is also planned to be the replace for the shuttle fleet when it is retired in 2010.
I hereby claim the right to name the star system "Puzzling" and the planet shall be called "Befuddle".
So let it be written, so let it be done.
I'd like to see an ability to use a <Declaration> area, then you can use inline (Declare @xxx) or linked (Imports xxx.x) definitions and such.
Just an idea.
That's like saying the Spanish weren't forcing Catholic conversion on the Indians, the Indians were choosing it because it was better than the alternative, torture and death.
Honestly, the blame is not Microsoft's. It is the community. OSS under GPL3 is fast approaching the stance of the Catholic Church as recently expounded by the Pope. In otherwords, "its all or nothing", "you're either with us, or against us", and so forth.
GPL2 was fine, the lessers are fine. But, brow beating projects into GPL3 is going to make the community rebel, and these people are all about rebellion.
The split is not happening because of MS, it is because of RMS, all holiness to his name.
Zoooooooom, as it goes over your head.
Damn, we really do need a <Sarcasm> tag so these thinned skinned dolts don't get their panties in a bunch.
Hey, AC, check my link to my journal, you'll see where you went wrong. By the way, how's your knee?
When would you have time? My Gods, I went there, expecting it to be like the Johnson Space Center, a half day diversion. WRONG. We spent the entire day, I was thoroughly geeked out, spent more at their gift shop than I did in 3 subsequent days at Disney World, and almost as much as we spent in Nassau on the cruise the previous week.
KSC has got to be one of the best National tours around. The only thing better is the Smithsonian Air and Space, and a close third to the KSC is the museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. All three are full day experiences.
Did I mention the gift shops?
It is reported that the Hawaiian chieftan was offended by Cook joking around with his daughter. Cook reportedly said, "Kamanaiwannalaiya." It is still unclear in most historians minds as to whether it was the insult to the daughter or the use of a really bad Hawaiian joke that caused the chief to order Cook's execution.
Remember the fly around stuff the XFL used? They had a ton of cameras stationed around the stadium and then used software to fill in the gaps. It was one of the cool things that came out of that abomination. On playback, they would fly around the scene and you could get a better idea of what the QB or receiver sees.
Now that they are bringing the technology to the home user this could be really cool, being in control of the fly around.