I keep hearing from MS Office users that they'd ditch Office in a nanosecond if there was a competitor to Outlook, but since there isn't they don't bother moving to the OpenOffice/LibreOffice half-offering.
We found our staff were highly attached to Outlook, but really only had minimal composition requirements for Word/Excel. And most only consumed powerpoint.
We have a small group of people that need to work and exchange complex office documents, compose powerpoint etc, and they are getting Office 2010. This would be some people in marketing (powerpoint guys), accounting (excel power users), legal, executive, etc.
But the vast majority of the staff are getting OpenOffice 3.3, Microsoft Outlook, and the free Microsoft document viewers (Powerpoint Viewer mostly).
We did some trials for the last 6 months, and we found that in most cases, as you implied, the big item people were attached to was outlook, and the lack of any completely adequate alternatives. So they're getting the new version of outlook (most are on Outlook XP or 2003 now), and the staff are generally supportive of the new rollout.
And the cost of outlook VLA per seat is just under a quarter the cost of Office 2010 Standard VLA... so we're saving about 75%.
The only other note i will make is that we are setting OO to use the doc and xls formats by default for word and excel to make everyone's life simpler.
I'd prefer the open document formats, but the reality is that we need to exchange documents enough with customers / vendors, and other MS office users that the office formats as defaults make sense for most of our users.
If you're big enough to be trading directly on the exchange, the cost of the leased lines and/or colocation next to the exchange (latency is everything) is easy to swallow.
And as long as those leased lines and co-located servers are connected to the internet......Then the exchanges are connected to the internet.
Air gapping it might be inconvenient, but it will make the market a whole lot better for you and me
We can make the market a whole lot better for you and me without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Being connected to the internet isn't the problem. If they pulled the nasdaq of the net and institutional traders simply dialed into it on dedicated T1/fiber lines totally air-gapped from the Internet it would have all the problems it has now... and it would take a broker charging $100+ per trade to execute a transaction... like it used to.
It makes absolutely no fucking sense whatsoever in any way, like many compromises do
I've never found it less sensible than wave particle duality.
In any case, history aside the reality today is that no Catholic is polytheistic. There is only one god. How many forms he has doesn't change the count, and whether or not counting forms was heresy at some point to some people is all very interesting, but at no point did they ever think there was actually more than one god.
By those standards, and with the testimony of these two women, he would be found guilty.
You mean, all one has to do is allege that one asked one's partner to wear a condom and that they refused to convict someone of rape?
As I see it, whether or not he refused to wear a condom is utterly irrelevant.
If she asked him to wear a condom, he refused, and she said... oh ok fine... then its not rape.
If she asked him to wear a condom, and he said no, and she said, "oh, ok, then we are done here" and he says "come on", and she says "oh ok fine" then its not rape.
If she asks, he says no condoms, she says no sex, and then he forces her to anyway then its rape.
He also didn't disclose to either that he was having multiple sex partners at the time.
Monastery... area code 902xxxxxx8, correct? Nope totally wrong...
Clearly. The area code in Barbados is 246.
I don't use any sites where I don't want to be anonymous, it's that simple. There are some where I talk with people I know IRL but we call each other by our pseudonyms online.
A government agency/police force type would probably already have your name and address if he wanted it based on the vehicles alone. An AE92 and a Samurai... shouldn't be hard to track down on an island.
I'm also willing to bet that the gameboyrmh account and one the related gameboyrmh (hotmail/gmail/yahoo email addresses got used at some point for an online purchase... whether it was for a book from amazon, a purchase for some gadget or other, or that N900 stylus you were trying to find... at which point your real name and shipping address got attached together in a marketing database. Whether that database is being shared and re-sold is a separate question.
And within a few short years, joe public can quite probably feed those images of the Suzuki (which appear to have where you live in the background) into a search and get the address back...
I'm also confused how BoB calls itself "the Largest Independent eBookstore" as they're clearly hosting major publishers' works.
An independant grocery store still sells campbell's soup and coca-cola. Independant just means its privately owned... not part of a major chain. "Mom-n-Pop" small/medium business type of thing.
Most (all?) states don't have a single statewide sales tax rate (except the states that have 0%). Sales tax can vary by city and county within a state. You can't rely on ZIP codes either, since they span city and county borders.
That's interesting. I did not know this. As a Canadian, we have a national sales tax "gst", and in most cases a provincial sales tax (variously called PST / RST / QST) In a number of provinces, for simplicity the GST and provincial tax is 'harmonized' into a single tax "HST".
So determining what tax jurisdiction the shipper and receiver is in is pretty trivial. The tax collection rules are pretty simple:
When shipping to an HST province, collect HST.
When shipping to a GST+provincial tax province you have a presence in collect both.
When shipping to a GST+PST province you don't have a presence in: collect GST.
(And its up to the buyer to self declare and pay provincial taxes if applicable.)
The US system quite frankly is ridiculous.
You can't rely on ZIP codes either, since they span city and county borders.
Right, but a database of "city-state-salestax" would be feasible, and wouldn't be much more painful to maintain than a zip-code database of tax rates. But I agree either case would be an inordinate amount of work to maintain.
Canada is easy with 13 provinces/territories to track. 50 states would be entirely manageable as well... but tracking tax rates for every city individually in either country is ludicrous.
At least as far as human space travel is concerned, that breathtaking pace has come to a grinding halt.
At the time compression we're talking about, the last 40 years is just a two week pause. And we've made a lot of progress. From locating extrasolar planets, to driving a remote control car on mars, to sequencing the genome, to carbon nano-tubes, cell phones, the internet...
Even though thousands of years of history prove that religion motivates people to perform the most atrocious violence, I'm not proposing to ban religion.
Perhaps you -should- be.
Therefore I cannot understand why people want to ban games without even presenting credible evidence that games cause any harm.
Because they believe it causes harm. They may not actually be correct. But its very easy to understand.
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You had a cool brand, and you've thrown it away.
Sorry, no, Symbian was never "cool".
And at least Windows Phone 7 has brand name recognition. And hate on MS all you like, but people actually really LIKE Windows 7, so their is a bit of a halo effect there.
Android, and Blackberry, and Apple iOS are in the lead, and WP7's launch was less than steller, but I wouldn't write it off yet.
Why is there reason to be "concerned"? It is an interesting find, but that solar gas won't do much to harm Earth.
Your missing the point. Its not that the gas will hit the earth. Its that the sun is like a giant balloon, and now it has a hole in it, that's letting the gas out.
The the sun will be completely deflated within a year!!
The sun worshipping mayans knew about this too, its clearly the 2012 apocalypse. I'm mean if you worshipped the sun like a god, why bother marking any dates on the calendar after the sun goes out.
It is the responsibility of the company to keep the trade secret... secret. If they embed it into the things they sell people, and people find out, its not a secret anymore, and we aren't criminals.
They do *not* own the number in any way, but it's still probably illegal to associate the number with the specific usage in breaking the PS3, and exchange this fact with others.
That sounds well and fine, but the difficulty is the mechanics involved. Sure, Amazon and Wal-Mart and other big companies can code their web sites & shopping carts to figure out where the customer lives, and collect sales tax appropriately.
By "figure out where the customer lives" do you mean look at the "bill-to" and/or "ship-to" address the customer just filled out? Because that is all that is required. Its not difficult, you make 'state' a required field. There are no data subscriptions, nor a lot of coding involved.
Supporting domestic tax collection is trivial, and most decent off-the-shelf shopping carts already have it built in.
International tax collection is harder, but its generally only relevant if you have a multi-national presence, and if you are multi-national you can afford to get it right.
So it is VERY hard on small businesses to make this kind of change.
1) Most shopping carts systems already support sales taxes, and its pretty trivial to enable them. 2) mom-n-pop small businesses only have a presence in one state so the logic becomes: if shipto.state = ourstate then salestax = yup and salestaxrate= ourstatetaxrate.
But were you aware that the current top of line Gillette Razor has 6 blades? 5 on the main razor, and then another one on the back for 'precision trimming'. Oh, and the lubricating strip has more lubricants and now contains mineral oil too.
Itâ(TM)s not a ponzi scheme which requires new investors to support the old.
Except it actually does.
Your shares pay you nothing ever unless you cash them out (and your only ahead if you get more than you paid after commissions), meaning a new investor has to buy your shares for more than you paid for them for you to realize any profit.
Because the company never returns money back to the investors, the only money existing investors get out, is from new investors buying in.
That is starting to look like a ponzi scheme.
A classic ponzi scheme has the returns of the old investors paid for directly by the new investors, and for the returns to continue, ever more new investors have to buy in.
Now Apple isn't a true ponzi... there is a real company under there, with real value, and holding apple stock represents real wealth in terms of it being a fractional part of the real company. What that value is is debatable, but its definitely way above zero.
However its day to day valuation does actually behave pretty much exactly like a ponzi scheme. Any money made by owning apple shares is funded by new investors buying in at a higher price. Any money they make is made from new investors buying in even at a higher price. And so on... that is fundamentally not sustainable.
Apple has not paid any dividends because it believes that it can grow future profits and the current cash faster then if the owners were to take there money and invest in something else.
And that's a fair rationale... we need this cash to make the company better, and you the investor will hold a larger more valuable company as a result. However, that only works in the short / medium term... when that becomes a perpetual promise, then it never pays.
It would be like loaning your brother a $1, on the promise of getting $1.20 at the end of the week. At the end of the week, he says... hold up another week and I'll get you $1.50... and you say sure... 25 years later go by and you still haven't been paid. Sure, your brothers made good use of the money and is a rich bastard who owes you millions... but you'll die before he evers pays up... or maybe he finally screws up goes broke and you'll be lucky to get your original $1 out.
That's investing in apple... although at least you can get out whenever you want, as long as you can find someone else who believes more in your brother (Apple) than you do.
All of these will get sent to foobar@google.com and you can create a filter on each term (eg: filter on +slashdot) to send them into their own mailbox.
Yes, I'm sure no one would ever think to actually strip out the +component out to get the real address, especially since its a documented feature.
The hotmail alias system is more useful, because the real address can't be harvested trivially from address you give out.
The release of diplomatic cables arguably did a lot to damage fraternity between nations.
The release of other things did a lot of good.
The release of the diplomatic cables did not end the world, and while the governments were embarrassed the actual people I think have been brought together by the frank disclosure that their leaders were being duplicitous jerks. (We all knew this all along, of course. But just putting it out in the open still makes a difference.
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No games = more professional to a Lot of executives.
And then ...No Microsoft Office, No Outlook, No decent accounting software...promptly kills it.
I keep hearing from MS Office users that they'd ditch Office in a nanosecond if there was a competitor to Outlook, but since there isn't they don't bother moving to the OpenOffice/LibreOffice half-offering.
We found our staff were highly attached to Outlook, but really only had minimal composition requirements for Word/Excel. And most only consumed powerpoint.
We have a small group of people that need to work and exchange complex office documents, compose powerpoint etc, and they are getting Office 2010. This would be some people in marketing (powerpoint guys), accounting (excel power users), legal, executive, etc.
But the vast majority of the staff are getting OpenOffice 3.3, Microsoft Outlook, and the free Microsoft document viewers (Powerpoint Viewer mostly).
We did some trials for the last 6 months, and we found that in most cases, as you implied, the big item people were attached to was outlook, and the lack of any completely adequate alternatives. So they're getting the new version of outlook (most are on Outlook XP or 2003 now), and the staff are generally supportive of the new rollout.
And the cost of outlook VLA per seat is just under a quarter the cost of Office 2010 Standard VLA... so we're saving about 75%.
The only other note i will make is that we are setting OO to use the doc and xls formats by default for word and excel to make everyone's life simpler.
I'd prefer the open document formats, but the reality is that we need to exchange documents enough with customers / vendors, and other MS office users that the office formats as defaults make sense for most of our users.
If you're big enough to be trading directly on the exchange, the cost of the leased lines and/or colocation next to the exchange (latency is everything) is easy to swallow.
And as long as those leased lines and co-located servers are connected to the internet... ...Then the exchanges are connected to the internet.
Air gapping it might be inconvenient, but it will make the market a whole lot better for you and me
We can make the market a whole lot better for you and me without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Being connected to the internet isn't the problem. If they pulled the nasdaq of the net and institutional traders simply dialed into it on dedicated T1/fiber lines totally air-gapped from the Internet it would have all the problems it has now... and it would take a broker charging $100+ per trade to execute a transaction... like it used to.
. are sensitive networks like NASDAQ even connected to the internet?
So you can get up to date stock quotes from yahoo, instead of waiting for them in the news paper?
So you can log into your bank or brokerage and buy and sell shares of something?
So brokers, fund managers, and so on can do the same, all in real-time from their offices around the world?
Air gapping the stock exchange would be pretty inconvenient for pretty much anyone who deals with it at all.
It makes absolutely no fucking sense whatsoever in any way, like many compromises do
I've never found it less sensible than wave particle duality.
In any case, history aside the reality today is that no Catholic is polytheistic. There is only one god. How many forms he has doesn't change the count, and whether or not counting forms was heresy at some point to some people is all very interesting, but at no point did they ever think there was actually more than one god.
angels, saints, and satan are not gods.
Follow up to fix this as /. ate my angle brackets...
The generic URI syntax consists of 4 main components...
[scheme]://[authority][path]?[query]
Requirement: Long URLs must have a slash between the domain and the path component.
The generic URI syntax consists of 4 main components... ://?
The path component is optional, and the authority component can be terminated directly by a ?. Per RFC 2396.
3.2 The authority component is preceded by a double slash "//" and is
terminated by the next slash "/", question-mark "?", or by the end of
the URI.
So I am unclear sure where your requirement to insert a slash actually comes from.
I challenge you to find a non-regex solution as nice as this:
Given you are using java, using the URL class. I would expect url.toString() to emit a well formed URL, with the various components separated to spec.
I suppose you could also construct the string manually from the url parts in a straightforward manner... something along the lines of...
urlstring = url.getProtocol() + "://" + url.getAuthority() + "/" + url.getFile();
By those standards, and with the testimony of these two women, he would be found guilty.
You mean, all one has to do is allege that one asked one's partner to wear a condom and that they refused to convict someone of rape?
As I see it, whether or not he refused to wear a condom is utterly irrelevant.
If she asked him to wear a condom, he refused, and she said... oh ok fine... then its not rape.
If she asked him to wear a condom, and he said no, and she said, "oh, ok, then we are done here" and he says "come on", and she says "oh ok fine" then its not rape.
If she asks, he says no condoms, she says no sex, and then he forces her to anyway then its rape.
He also didn't disclose to either that he was having multiple sex partners at the time.
So is adultery a felony crime in sweden too?
Monastery... area code 902xxxxxx8, correct?
Nope totally wrong...
Clearly. The area code in Barbados is 246.
I don't use any sites where I don't want to be anonymous, it's that simple. There are some where I talk with people I know IRL but we call each other by our pseudonyms online.
A government agency/police force type would probably already have your name and address if he wanted it based on the vehicles alone. An AE92 and a Samurai... shouldn't be hard to track down on an island.
I'm also willing to bet that the gameboyrmh account and one the related gameboyrmh (hotmail/gmail/yahoo email addresses got used at some point for an online purchase... whether it was for a book from amazon, a purchase for some gadget or other, or that N900 stylus you were trying to find... at which point your real name and shipping address got attached together in a marketing database. Whether that database is being shared and re-sold is a separate question.
And within a few short years, joe public can quite probably feed those images of the Suzuki (which appear to have where you live in the background) into a search and get the address back...
I'm also confused how BoB calls itself "the Largest Independent eBookstore" as they're clearly hosting major publishers' works.
An independant grocery store still sells campbell's soup and coca-cola. Independant just means its privately owned ... not part of a major chain. "Mom-n-Pop" small/medium business type of thing.
Most (all?) states don't have a single statewide sales tax rate (except the states that have 0%). Sales tax can vary by city and county within a state. You can't rely on ZIP codes either, since they span city and county borders.
That's interesting. I did not know this. As a Canadian, we have a national sales tax "gst", and in most cases a provincial sales tax (variously called PST / RST / QST) In a number of provinces, for simplicity the GST and provincial tax is 'harmonized' into a single tax "HST".
So determining what tax jurisdiction the shipper and receiver is in is pretty trivial.
The tax collection rules are pretty simple:
When shipping to an HST province, collect HST.
When shipping to a GST+provincial tax province you have a presence in collect both.
When shipping to a GST+PST province you don't have a presence in: collect GST.
(And its up to the buyer to self declare and pay provincial taxes if applicable.)
The US system quite frankly is ridiculous.
You can't rely on ZIP codes either, since they span city and county borders.
Right, but a database of "city-state-salestax" would be feasible, and wouldn't be much more painful to maintain than a zip-code database of tax rates. But I agree either case would be an inordinate amount of work to maintain.
Canada is easy with 13 provinces/territories to track. 50 states would be entirely manageable as well... but tracking tax rates for every city individually in either country is ludicrous.
At least as far as human space travel is concerned, that breathtaking pace has come to a grinding halt.
At the time compression we're talking about, the last 40 years is just a two week pause. And we've made a lot of progress. From locating extrasolar planets, to driving a remote control car on mars, to sequencing the genome, to carbon nano-tubes, cell phones, the internet...
Even though thousands of years of history prove that religion motivates people to perform the most atrocious violence, I'm not proposing to ban religion.
Perhaps you -should- be.
Therefore I cannot understand why people want to ban games without even presenting credible evidence that games cause any harm.
Because they believe it causes harm. They may not actually be correct. But its very easy to understand.
You had a cool brand, and you've thrown it away.
Sorry, no, Symbian was never "cool".
And at least Windows Phone 7 has brand name recognition. And hate on MS all you like, but people actually really LIKE Windows 7, so their is a bit of a halo effect there.
Android, and Blackberry, and Apple iOS are in the lead, and WP7's launch was less than steller, but I wouldn't write it off yet.
Why is there reason to be "concerned"? It is an interesting find, but that solar gas won't do much to harm Earth.
Your missing the point. Its not that the gas will hit the earth. Its that the sun is like a giant balloon, and now it has a hole in it, that's letting the gas out.
The the sun will be completely deflated within a year!!
The sun worshipping mayans knew about this too, its clearly the 2012 apocalypse. I'm mean if you worshipped the sun like a god, why bother marking any dates on the calendar after the sun goes out.
The key was a Sony trade secret.
It is the responsibility of the company to keep the trade secret... secret. If they embed it into the things they sell people, and people find out, its not a secret anymore, and we aren't criminals.
They do *not* own the number in any way, but it's still probably illegal to associate the number with the specific usage in breaking the PS3, and exchange this fact with others.
Why should that be true?
That sounds well and fine, but the difficulty is the mechanics involved. Sure, Amazon and Wal-Mart and other big companies can code their web sites & shopping carts to figure out where the customer lives, and collect sales tax appropriately.
By "figure out where the customer lives" do you mean look at the "bill-to" and/or "ship-to" address the customer just filled out? Because that is all that is required. Its not difficult, you make 'state' a required field. There are no data subscriptions, nor a lot of coding involved.
Supporting domestic tax collection is trivial, and most decent off-the-shelf shopping carts already have it built in.
International tax collection is harder, but its generally only relevant if you have a multi-national presence, and if you are multi-national you can afford to get it right.
So it is VERY hard on small businesses to make this kind of change.
1) Most shopping carts systems already support sales taxes, and its pretty trivial to enable them.
2) mom-n-pop small businesses only have a presence in one state so the logic becomes:
if shipto.state = ourstate then salestax = yup and salestaxrate= ourstatetaxrate.
Even mom-n-pop can handle that.
Fuck everything, we're doing five...
I loved that article when it came out.
But were you aware that the current top of line Gillette Razor has 6 blades? 5 on the main razor, and then another one on the back for 'precision trimming'. Oh, and the lubricating strip has more lubricants and now contains mineral oil too.
Reality will not be outdone by parody.
Your wish has been granted.
Microsoft Works has been discontinued, and instead you get a defeatured nagware adsupported version of Office 2010 "Starter".
Isn't this how facebook got its initial data too? By scraping the websites of Universities for student profiles.
And I'm sure that no one would ever think to use a +-form address as his main one
Oh I'm sure someone thought of it, and then promptly got frustrated at all the places it didn't work and/or got rejected.
(Also, have you looked at the hassles involved in sending from a gmail plus address...)
Itâ(TM)s not a ponzi scheme which requires new investors to support the old.
Except it actually does.
Your shares pay you nothing ever unless you cash them out (and your only ahead if you get more than you paid after commissions), meaning a new investor has to buy your shares for more than you paid for them for you to realize any profit.
Because the company never returns money back to the investors, the only money existing investors get out, is from new investors buying in.
That is starting to look like a ponzi scheme.
A classic ponzi scheme has the returns of the old investors paid for directly by the new investors, and for the returns to continue, ever more new investors have to buy in.
Now Apple isn't a true ponzi... there is a real company under there, with real value, and holding apple stock represents real wealth in terms of it being a fractional part of the real company. What that value is is debatable, but its definitely way above zero.
However its day to day valuation does actually behave pretty much exactly like a ponzi scheme. Any money made by owning apple shares is funded by new investors buying in at a higher price. Any money they make is made from new investors buying in even at a higher price. And so on... that is fundamentally not sustainable.
Apple has not paid any dividends because it believes that it can grow future profits and the current cash faster then if the owners were to take there money and invest in something else.
And that's a fair rationale... we need this cash to make the company better, and you the investor will hold a larger more valuable company as a result. However, that only works in the short / medium term... when that becomes a perpetual promise, then it never pays.
It would be like loaning your brother a $1, on the promise of getting $1.20 at the end of the week. At the end of the week, he says... hold up another week and I'll get you $1.50... and you say sure... 25 years later go by and you still haven't been paid. Sure, your brothers made good use of the money and is a rich bastard who owes you millions... but you'll die before he evers pays up... or maybe he finally screws up goes broke and you'll be lucky to get your original $1 out.
That's investing in apple... although at least you can get out whenever you want, as long as you can find someone else who believes more in your brother (Apple) than you do.
All of these will get sent to foobar@google.com and you can create a filter on each term (eg: filter on +slashdot) to send them into their own mailbox.
Yes, I'm sure no one would ever think to actually strip out the +component out to get the real address, especially since its a documented feature.
The hotmail alias system is more useful, because the real address can't be harvested trivially from address you give out.
The release of diplomatic cables arguably did a lot to damage fraternity between nations.
The release of other things did a lot of good.
The release of the diplomatic cables did not end the world, and while the governments were embarrassed the actual people I think have been brought together by the frank disclosure that their leaders were being duplicitous jerks. (We all knew this all along, of course. But just putting it out in the open still makes a difference.