Pivot tables, charts, and templates would all be a good start in providing a larger percentage of the functionality used in various business functions, though I have to confess to having spent an insignificant amount of time playing with Google Spreadsheets. It is obviously true that no competitor needs to implement everything that Excel offers to be useful to different groups, but the people using Excel without any formulas aren't really the intended audience of the program. They might as well use Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org's Calc if they don't require Excel, though that isn't to suggest that there is no niche for Google Spreadsheets.
Wow, genius, it's like I never enrolled at a university or anything. It's like you've read about poverty on Slashdot, and have no idea what it looks like. Those poor homeless college students with their iPods and their USD60,000+ undergraduate programs. They steal because they're disadvantaged. I can't fathom how your education stalled out with a four-year degree.
I know because the person is a neighbor of mine. If people "stole like mad" she would simply cease selling the vegetables on the side of the road, because she has a job and cannot sit around and watch the stand. A stand that makes no money due to theft isn't useful. As far as she claims, no one has stolen anything from the stand, though she's found the occassional Canadian penny. I walk over a couple of times a week to pick up some vegetables and I've never seen the box empty, so I have no particular reason to doubt her.
Students don't live in absurd poverty. Their meals and lodging are typically guaranteed to them as part of the meal and housing plans that they have taken loans to pre-pay for. In some hardship cases they may have a higher immediate burden to avoid the use of credit, but honestly someone supporting a family of three while working a minimum wage job lives in far more poverty and that still pales in comparison to real poverty.
Students in college are adult children, and many children have developed entitlement problems stemming from having everything in their lives provided to them by their parents. People that continue to take from others simply don't care that their actions harm others, and simply take because they can. This may be due to sociopathy or it may simply be the result of a lack of negative responses to their actions in the past.
On the side of the road is a vegetable stand. No one is there to attend to it, but there is a box and a sign with prices for the merchandise. In the box there will typically be at least thirty dollars and the stand itself is full of vegetables. No one has ever taken the box or the vegetables.
All it would take is one unscrupulous person to stop and take the money and/or vegetables, yet it never happens. The stand earns a good sum and everyone has a convenient place to stop and purchase fresh local produce.
An interesting question is whether this would change if instead of a local person this was conducted by Walmart. If Walmart left stands on the side of the road with produce, would people pay for what they took, or would they loot the stands?
rather aptly with his, "In my day, Pluto was a planet!" routine. Someone quickly find his article proclaiming that in his day there were four food groups, and he isn't changing his stance on the matter because some dictators at the food police said otherwise.
You should petition for the ESRB to rate freeze tag so that parents can have all of the information available to them for making decisions. If there's anything an overly broad definion of the word violence provides, it's useful information for making decisions.
to encourage adoption of Vista when it is released. Making game titles DX10-only (or limiting quality without the use of DX10), only supporting HD-DVD/Blu-Ray on 64-bit Vista, and ensuring software you use (Firefox) works. There are certain technical incentives (driver model, geometry shaders, extended memory protection) that coincide with the business incentive of encouraging Vista adoption with some of these so it isn't cut-and-dry, but Microsoft is eager to see as fast or faster adoption of Vista than it had with XP.
Gauss-Jordan elimination was not developed by Gauss, and the Jordan in Guass-Jordan was a school teacher largely uninterested in obtaining recognition for his work. Gauss popularized the method that has been in use since at least 100BC, and probably even before then. It's interesting that you have absolutely no idea what you were talking about, and I'm guessing that I won't find your name in any of the literature if you were brave-enough to use it in public discourse to begin with. Having taken a single class in Linear Algebra would have cleared up confusion over this point, since texts have this interesting habit of conveying the historical development of mathematics. Are there any other misnomers you would like for me to clear up for you in the naming of mathematical jargon?
If Creative were certain of the validity of its patent then it would not settle for a paltry $100M, because they could easily obtain a piece of every iPod sold. Or at least using your sophomoric fallacy we can easily conclude that.
Your comments are all formulaic. You take a position of some percentage of Slashdot posters, claim the contrary in a condescending manner, and provide zero content.
To be honest the myopia involved in presuming the inevitability of iPod dominance into the distant future surprises me. I would imagine that few people posting here are so young that they couldn't remember the world before the iPod.
Don't take for granted what he says is true. It is not uncommon for people that do not want to work, or simply are unappealing to employers for reasons that they do not divulge, to blame their predicament on continued education. "I have a Masters in CS, but I can't find a job anywhere and it's been three years!" It isn't the time spent obtaining another degree that is the problem. It may be where he's looking for work, it may be the positions that he's looking for, it might be the pay that he is demanding, or it might be that he's CrazyJim's identical twin brother.
started their education by majoring in one of the engineering disciplines. Knowledge of engineering and business are both valuable, and possibly even more valuable together depending on what your long-term goals are job-wise. If you see yourself as managing engineers, then it could easily work in your favor.
He wants to make money and be famous. Being a nut has given him a grand forum that attorneys rarely obtain without representing famous clients or or being involved in enormous lawsuits. You can argue before the Supreme Court and not have anyone recognize your name, but if you can get on television lots of people will recognize you even if it's just because they hate you.
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Do you use Google Spreadsheets for anything yourself?
Pivot tables, charts, and templates would all be a good start in providing a larger percentage of the functionality used in various business functions, though I have to confess to having spent an insignificant amount of time playing with Google Spreadsheets. It is obviously true that no competitor needs to implement everything that Excel offers to be useful to different groups, but the people using Excel without any formulas aren't really the intended audience of the program. They might as well use Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org's Calc if they don't require Excel, though that isn't to suggest that there is no niche for Google Spreadsheets.
Well done.
Wow, genius, it's like I never enrolled at a university or anything. It's like you've read about poverty on Slashdot, and have no idea what it looks like. Those poor homeless college students with their iPods and their USD60,000+ undergraduate programs. They steal because they're disadvantaged. I can't fathom how your education stalled out with a four-year degree.
I agree. At some point it's best not to exploit the dead, and this is well beyond that point.
I know because the person is a neighbor of mine. If people "stole like mad" she would simply cease selling the vegetables on the side of the road, because she has a job and cannot sit around and watch the stand. A stand that makes no money due to theft isn't useful. As far as she claims, no one has stolen anything from the stand, though she's found the occassional Canadian penny. I walk over a couple of times a week to pick up some vegetables and I've never seen the box empty, so I have no particular reason to doubt her.
Students don't live in absurd poverty. Their meals and lodging are typically guaranteed to them as part of the meal and housing plans that they have taken loans to pre-pay for. In some hardship cases they may have a higher immediate burden to avoid the use of credit, but honestly someone supporting a family of three while working a minimum wage job lives in far more poverty and that still pales in comparison to real poverty. Students in college are adult children, and many children have developed entitlement problems stemming from having everything in their lives provided to them by their parents. People that continue to take from others simply don't care that their actions harm others, and simply take because they can. This may be due to sociopathy or it may simply be the result of a lack of negative responses to their actions in the past.
On the side of the road is a vegetable stand. No one is there to attend to it, but there is a box and a sign with prices for the merchandise. In the box there will typically be at least thirty dollars and the stand itself is full of vegetables. No one has ever taken the box or the vegetables. All it would take is one unscrupulous person to stop and take the money and/or vegetables, yet it never happens. The stand earns a good sum and everyone has a convenient place to stop and purchase fresh local produce. An interesting question is whether this would change if instead of a local person this was conducted by Walmart. If Walmart left stands on the side of the road with produce, would people pay for what they took, or would they loot the stands?
Ayn, I want to have your babies.
Eating animals is wrong, but killing and dumping them is perfectly ok.
You might think that NetBSD and FreeBSD are dying but then you see this and decide they died alone long ago. Then you look at what is really important to people and realize they never cared about any of it to begin with.
BMW and Mercedes do not fluctuate wildly, while Britney Spears has seen a mostly steady decline in popularity despite an increase in "scandals."
BSD is dying.
Some
common
industry languages are quite popular.
Except for interest in Rails.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=buttsex
rather aptly with his, "In my day, Pluto was a planet!" routine. Someone quickly find his article proclaiming that in his day there were four food groups, and he isn't changing his stance on the matter because some dictators at the food police said otherwise.
You should petition for the ESRB to rate freeze tag so that parents can have all of the information available to them for making decisions. If there's anything an overly broad definion of the word violence provides, it's useful information for making decisions.
Pac-Man is no more violent than a game of freeze tag.
to encourage adoption of Vista when it is released. Making game titles DX10-only (or limiting quality without the use of DX10), only supporting HD-DVD/Blu-Ray on 64-bit Vista, and ensuring software you use (Firefox) works. There are certain technical incentives (driver model, geometry shaders, extended memory protection) that coincide with the business incentive of encouraging Vista adoption with some of these so it isn't cut-and-dry, but Microsoft is eager to see as fast or faster adoption of Vista than it had with XP.
Gauss-Jordan elimination was not developed by Gauss, and the Jordan in Guass-Jordan was a school teacher largely uninterested in obtaining recognition for his work. Gauss popularized the method that has been in use since at least 100BC, and probably even before then. It's interesting that you have absolutely no idea what you were talking about, and I'm guessing that I won't find your name in any of the literature if you were brave-enough to use it in public discourse to begin with. Having taken a single class in Linear Algebra would have cleared up confusion over this point, since texts have this interesting habit of conveying the historical development of mathematics. Are there any other misnomers you would like for me to clear up for you in the naming of mathematical jargon?
If Creative were certain of the validity of its patent then it would not settle for a paltry $100M, because they could easily obtain a piece of every iPod sold. Or at least using your sophomoric fallacy we can easily conclude that.
Your comments are all formulaic. You take a position of some percentage of Slashdot posters, claim the contrary in a condescending manner, and provide zero content.
To be honest the myopia involved in presuming the inevitability of iPod dominance into the distant future surprises me. I would imagine that few people posting here are so young that they couldn't remember the world before the iPod.
Don't take for granted what he says is true. It is not uncommon for people that do not want to work, or simply are unappealing to employers for reasons that they do not divulge, to blame their predicament on continued education. "I have a Masters in CS, but I can't find a job anywhere and it's been three years!" It isn't the time spent obtaining another degree that is the problem. It may be where he's looking for work, it may be the positions that he's looking for, it might be the pay that he is demanding, or it might be that he's CrazyJim's identical twin brother.
started their education by majoring in one of the engineering disciplines. Knowledge of engineering and business are both valuable, and possibly even more valuable together depending on what your long-term goals are job-wise. If you see yourself as managing engineers, then it could easily work in your favor.
He wants to make money and be famous. Being a nut has given him a grand forum that attorneys rarely obtain without representing famous clients or or being involved in enormous lawsuits. You can argue before the Supreme Court and not have anyone recognize your name, but if you can get on television lots of people will recognize you even if it's just because they hate you.