This story attracts the usual solipsistic ignorance of IT drones about what other people actually do. Excel is simply more advanced than Google Spreadsheets. For many casual spreadsheet users, that doesn't matter. But accounting and finance (especially for firms doing business internationally) requires a lot more than figuring out sums and averages.

I am. And so are you. In fact, everyone is an idiot in some respect. But so what?

Good point and I agree. There are for instance a few people I would trust telling very personal things although I would never, ever do that over email for instance. There are just way to many ways for such information to leak out in some way, even if the receiving person would handle things perfectly confidentially.

There is no way you can avoid putting trust on something outside your own control, be it the C compiler, firmware on the motherboard or the CPU itself. So what you really are asking is "where should I put my trust level". That depends extremely from person to person and is next to impossible to answer, almost like asking "what car should I buy". You cannot expect good answers to what you ask without providing good indicators about what threats you consider important. However, the slashdot crowd usually does not pay any attention to the original question in any case, so maybe it is not that important :)

Dear interval1066.

I do not know what your intention were in writing the above post. Maybe you wrote it purely for own reasons to blow off some steam or you felt that someone was wrong on the internet. But if you also want to influence other people, politeness is much, much, much more effective than insulting them. And to other people not target for the insult you risk appearing childish by calling the other person douchebag etc. So I kindly ask you to consider being more polite. Not because I felt insulted or think you should not be allowed to say what you want. But because I think the world would be a better place if you did.

BR ZorroXXX

I really did not know, thank you for making me better informed. Although true or not true, that does not change the point that there ought not be any problem for anyone's children to inherit their music collection.

Precisely Bruce Willi's point when he wants to leave his music collection to his daughters (computerworld, cnn dailymail yahoo).

Back in the days, Borland was a refreshingly sound and sensible manufacturer, trusting its customers (as opposed to others' love for dongles or code wheels or whatnot). If you are not familiar with Borlands's No-Nonsense License Statement, by all means read the full story.

This software is protected by both United States copyright law and international copyright treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat this software just like a book, except that you may copy it onto a computer to be used and you may make archival copies of the software for the sole purpose of backing-up our software and protecting your investment from loss.

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At least we'll get the Heat Miser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqVwYx-YT-I

Trust me, if we can solve LA at rush hour, quantum computing, protein folding and FTL travel will be a breeze.

My god, there are a lot of smug/reactive, insular and almost anti-intellectual neckbeards on this thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participant_observation

That works.

Well, that's one game. Another is "he (or she) who dies with the most offspring, wins." Which has been around a lot longer as a game.

Spoilers

Just throw the bottle at Orat as he is chasing you. He will swallow it and explode from all the water generated is situ.

The science and craft of political triangulation is such that popular votes are always going to be somewhat close. That, to some extent, is deceptive. If the popular vote was the way that elections were decide, both candidates would have campaigned quite differently.

What is surprising is how close the races in the "battleground states" *wasn't.* Only Florida was a squeaker - in all the rest, Obama won by a rather decent margin. Historically, the popular vote lead in this race is a bit larger than usual, and the largest for a re-election since Reagan.