Comment Re:SaaS is news? (Score 1) 339
Above comment is from me.
Having strange problems with Slashdot at the moment!
Above comment is from me.
Having strange problems with Slashdot at the moment!
Probable best to encourage people to move to Open Standards, which is something the British Government is doing right: https://gdstechnology.blog.gov...
Microsoft objected, when the British Government first mentioned they might: https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
Microsoft has been pushing Office 365 HARD for some time now. At microsoft.com, you have to do some digging to find anything about Office 2019, and even what you do find is scant. I only keep Microsoft Office around just in case I need 100% compatibility with a MS doc I've received or need to edit and send out. I'll probably buy Office 2019 some time this year, but it will probably be the final time I pay for an office suite. I prefer to use LibreOffice. Not only is the price right and the features meet and exceed all my needs, the UI is more intuitive and obvious.
Yeah, my mother who was then in her late seventies, found LibreOffice easier to use than Microsoft Office!
I have a love / hate relationship with LbreOffice. I love that it's free.
I hate that it doesn't actually work.
For example, just three years ago, I was working on a really important presentation in Impress for hours. Somewhere near the end of the process, I dragged a slide to reorder it in the list. The list got completely out of whack (i.e. managing a simple linked list FAIL). Then, after a couple more minutes, Impress crashed. Launching it again, it found a recovery file and offered to open it. Opening it, it showed me half of my first slide. Closed that and attempting to open my saved file and it was corrupted. I started over and got about 3 slides in when the exact same thing happened.
I gave up, launched PowerPoint, and had the presentation done in an hour flat.
That's just one example among many, many attempts over the years to use the product.
When a piece of software that supposedly competes with Office can't keep track of basic 101 programming skills like a linked list without corrupting RAM, I'm out. The devs of LibreOffice have had a decade to produce a stable, functional piece of software and have yet to succeed. That's why it's never taken off except in limited circles. People can keep pushing it, but it's broken-by-design software that will never run properly.
What was the last version of LibreOffice you tried? LibreOffice 6.2.0 is at RC3 level, and LibreOffice 6.1.4 is the latest stable version. If you are adventuresome, you can even download LibreOffice 6.3.0.0 Alpha and compile it yourself (trying asking Microsoft if you could download and compile their source code -- good luck, even if you are prepared to sign a contract!)! Though, not something I'd recommend for most people!
If you have a problem with LibreOffice you can raise a bug report, and/or pay for commercial support. You can search the LibreOffice bug tracker to see if other people have hit the same problem -- can you do that for Microsoft Office???
You don't mention the multiple problems people have with Microsoft Office, including file corruption. Is that deliberate?
One place I worked, they had standardized on Microsoft Office, but I found LibreOffice easier to use, and no one complained about the files I sent them (I used the
LibreOffice is more 'Microsoft compatible' than Microsoft Office, it will read all Microsoft word formats, even old ones that Microsoft Office can't without downloading extra stuff. Note that files produced by one version of Microsoft Office may not be fully compatible with another version.
Also, LibreOffice supports over a 100 languages without having to pay extra.
For most people, both LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, have far more features than they'd ever need.
Oh, and you don't need a Microsoft Box to run it on, it will happily work on Linux as well, or on a Mac if you walk that way.
Simply download LibreOffice, see: https://www.libreoffice.org/
or any other software that supports the OpenDocument format ISO26300, see: https://www.iso.org/standard/4...
The British Govenment saw the light, see: https://gdstechnology.blog.gov...
LibreOffice is free, but you can have paid support contracts from multiple sources if you need such, and you can freely distribute copies. LibreOffice is available on all major O/S's, which include Linux, Microsoft's & Apple's.
But Yes, I often send people PDF files. Note that LibreOffice allows you to edit PDF files!
Nobody is going to Mars this century. Deal with it.
I am confident that Man will get to Mars within 10 years, and that people will be living on Mars for several Martian years within 20 years.
Rocket technology is both far more sophisticated and cheaper in real terms, than it was when Man landed on the Moon. Almost totally reusable rockets of the BFR class and above, will make it happen. Provided Trump, and his ignorant ilk, don't get in the way.
Show us on the doll where the mean orange man hurt you...
My brain.
Seriously, I don't understand this big group of his supporters who can't perceive how comically incompetent he is.
Sorry for clipping your salient points, but it was to cut down on over-quoting for readability's sake.
In any 2 party democracy (US, UK, Australia and Canada for example),
The UK, Australia, and Canada, are not 2 party democracies -- they are multi-party, they usually have 4 or more political parties.
For example, the UK Parliament has 9 parties:
Conservative Party
Co-operative Party
Democratic Unionist Party
Green Party
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats
Plaid Cymru
Scottish National Party
Sinn Féin
see: https://www.parliament.uk/abou...
The American political system is inherently unstable, with only two parties, it tends to be very polarised. In a multi-party democracy, when the major parties stop being representative, then new parties emerge -- in practice, this can't happen in the USA, though attempts have been made.
America is not really a democracy, it is essentially a 2 party dictatorship!
Probably New Zealand is the most democratic country in the world, as the relative proportions of the political parties in Parliament match those of the votes cast for each party.
see: https://www.elections.org.nz/v...
I even been wiped of the chess board by an old woman who was probably at least 30 years older than myself
Anecdote...
Had to laugh at your comment there. I played my first chess tournament in DC back in '82 with around 300 other people. While I was in the registration line, talking to the man behind me, we both noticed a woman about ten yards away from us, who was talking to herself with her head down and holding a coffee cup. When she looked up, she saw us and said, "don't mind me, I'm just writing letters", and proceeded to talk with us for the next couple minutes. During that time, I noticed she was sipping from an empty coffee cup. Of those people, who do you suppose I played in my very first ever tournament game?...Joan Slilch (sp?), who was at the time one of the top USCF rated women. And yes, she crushed me.
Well the old woman was toothless and looked a bit gaga. If you had seen her in a cafe, most people would never have thought she could play chess, let alone be able to beat most Club Players!
I could imagine her in a film, where she was the leader of a band of guerillas pretending to be harmless illiterate old woman providing tea&cakes to the enemy general, while taking careful note of their strategic intentions
So any time someone states a genuine difference between males & women, they are being sexist???
You are being way too simplistic, the comment you object to has little to do with competence, as other people have covered in more detail.
I'm glad bigotry has a pure justification.
Hmm... People can infer bigotry where none exists.
In New Zealand, a few years back, a researcher was concerned about the prevalence of an antisocial disease in a particular ethnic group, and was trying to propose reasonable remedial action to help reduce the incidence of the disease. He got accused of being racist, as though merely identifying a problem area, was bigotry.
If you fell into a pile of shit, and someone said "You're all shitty, let us help clean you up." Would you accuse them of being insulting, or would you graciously accept help???
(1) People who insist that there are no differences
That's pretty rare. I mean I'm sure you can find them but you can find flat-earther's too so there's not much to be found cherrypicking nutters.
This leads to stupid things like insisting that exactly half of the students in computer science classes should be female
Like when? What we do know is there was a dramatic drp down from about 37% in the early 1980s. Biology doesn't change significantly over the course of 1 generation.
or that 50% of nurses should be male
There are no significant voices saying that.
( I suspect most people, of any gender, would prefer most nurses to be female!)
Why on earth would people care? Especially as the majority of people are tending towards overweight or obese and one job of nurses is to move people who can't move themselves easily. At some point that requires upper body strength.
One place I worked there was female colleague I chatted with occasionally. She was, as far I can remember technically competent -- and definitely feminine. I remember talking to her husband who claimed there was no difference between men & women. I've never met anyone who insists the world is flat. I made no comment on how frequent problem (1) was.
Your comment wrt Computer Science, is not relevant to what I stated. I made no comment about percentages of females vs males in Computer Science. I also pointed out earlier, that there other forces at work aside from biology.
Your comment wrt Nurses. The number of people who are very vocal about an issue, tends to be considerably less than the number of people who have a particular preference. Also, I made no comment to suggest that there should be no male nurses (note that the word 'most' is not a synonym for the word 'all'). So your comments here are either irrelevant and/or fallacious.
Everything in the fucking world is about this stupid fucking gender gap shit. Is there not a single site I can go to which isn't infected with this crap? If there's a "gender gap" and females are more negatively affected then it's a disaster and something needs to be done. If there's a "gender gap" and males are doing worse then there's no problem at all and maybe even a sign of progress. What a bunch of toxic shit. Let's just do what we can to help HUMANS. Stop dividing everyone, pitting everyone against each other, and generally finding any conceivable way we can to create civil war. Jesus christ people. I've had it.
Well there are differences between men & women in many areas that are statistically significant. These are due to biological, cultural, and other causes. Unfortunately, a lot of political agendas confuse the issue (just look at the issue of marital violence -- it is a very real problem, leading to many people being seriously hurt).
This causes at least 3 types of problems:
(1) People who insist that there are no differences, either due to ignorance or ideology (or both). This leads to stupid things like insisting that exactly half of the students in computer science classes should be female (by the way, my wife has an MSc in Computer Science), or that 50% of nurses should be male ( I suspect most people, of any gender, would prefer most nurses to be female!).
(2) People who insist that a particular gender can't or shouldn't do something, This is almost invariable due to cultural bias. However, sometimes there is a valid scientific basis: women are more susceptible to alcohol per Kg, and the dangers to an unborn child are greatest shortly after conception when the woman may not realize that she maybe pregnant -- so women need to take more care for health reasons (don't know of any gender difference relating to alcohol induced anti social behaviour -- though I'm not saying that there isn't a difference).
(3) People who insist that a particular gender is superior to the other. Note that even if one gender is statistically superior to the other in one quality, it does not necessarily follow that all individuals of one gender are better than the other (I even been wiped of the chess board by an old woman who was probably at least 30 years older than myself, and I can easily thrash most social Chess players).
she requested to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. When she made the appeal, she recounted in a 2017 interview with NPR that the guidance counselor wasn't supportive of her dream to become a scientist.
I don't understand what teachers or councilors like that are thinking
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but, But, BUT, she was a only a girl!!!
"I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am."
Heisenberg Navigation & Propulsion Systems, delivering unrivalled precision & accuracy (see note a), far surpassing anything else on the market!
News Flash: top military commanders are horrified at Trump's tweet saying that Heisenberg equipped ICBM's will be configured to deliver nuclear strike capability in seconds!
Note (a): accuracy subject to the limitations of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: see http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.g...
Unidentified, and flying, but we haven't determined if it is an object or not.
Are you thinking it might have been a struct or a scalar?
More probably a Tensor!
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.
