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If you don't want anything to do with Windows 10 they've lost you as a customer already. Losing sales to people who refuse to update to Windows 10 will be more than offset by people who upgrade in order to use this version of Office, not to mention the savings from not supporting and testing for older versions of Windows.
The referenced blog post by the founder/chairman of MPEG is worth reading.[1] In it, Chiariglione expresses regret not for the money and control his organization is losing, but for the loss of competition which he claims will slow innovation. It will be interesting to see if this comes to pass, but my hope is that the collaboration of these companies will outpace the historically siloed research consisting of a dozen companies duplicating work.

[1] http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solut...
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I run my whole business on open source. Linux for the computers, libreoffice for the documents, Thunderbird + mail-in-a-box for email services.

Works like a charm.
Well for this kind of things, bare metal and C are hard to beat. Is bare metal go possible?
To me, Patterson is the real superstar of the duo.
Anyone can benefit from OSS, corrupt individuals included. I'm not sure if that kind of action can help improve legislation or decrease the number of loopholes.
Microsoft needs to jettison more legacy so they can move faster.

Why? For important business software, stability and longevity are good things.

From a commercial point of view, I know my businesses would have happily paid Microsoft for a version of Windows 7 that continued to get updates for security and for compatibility with new hardware but otherwise stayed much the same. Likewise, we'd pay for ongoing support of key business software like Office (and other big name products from other big name brands) if that were available.

Given genuinely beneficial improvements, we'd pay for genuine upgrades as well, on a timetable of our choosing.

However, we have no interest in upgrade treadmills for anything that matters, whether they are pushed via subscription plans or via incompatibility. So, moving faster in this case is directly costing Microsoft revenues.

While my own anecdotal experience is only that, I have to think we're not the only small businesses making the sorts of decisions we're making for the reasons that we're making them.
The real question: will Office 2019 produce documents that can't be read in older versions? It's one thing to say "you need the latest OS to run the latest Office" but another thing to say "everyone you interchange documents with needs the latest OS and the latest Office"...
49 here. Old c / c++ salt. Self taught go, js, and vue. I love it. Always fun to learn new approaches . After build reactive uis it will be hard to go back to building them the traditional way
For basic use cases I like mixpanel. You need to be a bit careful about how you structure your events to get the most out of the reporting it provides - but its very flexible when you do.

The triggered messaging is great too if your into automated marketing.
It also puts you squarely in PCI scope which is a massive burden. I believe many of the modern payment processors offer embedded iframe solutions these days where they handle the sensitive bits (card and CVV#) but allow you to style the payment form however you like.
Indeed. People still like to talk about the "post-PC era" becaust PC sales slowed. PC sales slowed because they reached a level where a PC remained "good enough" for an extended period.

Is the "post-smartphone era" coming soon?

As it is, the main issue with old devices right now is that most of them are Android, and basically unsupported. If the dominant mobile phone OS ever gets serious about long term support, sales will slow even further. Maybe that's why they haven't.
The un-ownability of time is a little more obvious when it comes to life expectancy. I have to occasionally remind myself I don’t have another 40 or 50 years to live. I often expect it, but I never have it. It’s not mine. I don’t even “have” one year. I do have this moment, but all the time stretching forward from it is just speculation. We can have intentions, but never time.
I wonder if the victims/hysterics themselves would react similarly upon questing? i.e. with a defensive emotional reaction, assuming such an emotion were observable in the midst of the other strange behaviour:

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/10-stran...
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And even less time not to type this meaningless and unnecessarily rude comment. My meaningless and unnecessarily rude comment, on the other hand, took quite a bit longer.
Clinton was described as overprepared for the debate the night of the first debate.

There was some amount of controversy over one such comment, by Chuck Todd (of NBC).
True that. Windows 7 with Office 2010 is still the most solid and pleasant combination I can imagine. Since then, both product lines have suffered from Microsoft's new release management, design guidelines, and push to the cloud.
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Also, for non terminal-based things, Raylib is really nice.
It's originally a C-based games-library, but the bindings work well for playing around in Golang.

https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go
(meta) I suggest to deliver a counter-argument instead of downvoting and flagging an argument you don't like.
I moved to OS X from Windows 7 around 6 years ago and I really missed the Windows at first. But then checked 8.1 and had no regrets, the thing was awful UX-wise, they tried to break my patterns but why?

The only company I partially trust with my data is Apple and I think if I'd have to switch back to Windows right now I'd pick 7 - because it wasn't integrated so well with the Internet and it had no Metro.

What sucks today is the fact that I feel the OSes are gradually getting worse from user perspective - excepting Linux distros - macOS is way less stable and secure than 6 years ago when I first joined the club and Windows after 7 feels like rushed job, just like with ME/Vista.
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Owning >51% of the mining power for a sustained period would make it impossible to trust and presumably eventually wipe it out. The hashing power is frequently compared to small states, so a large state could presumably put together enough hashing power to sustain such an attack.
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>He could have distributed (read: invested via donations and grants) more sooner.

The only way he could have done that is to sell the company, and using your definition, as soon as the company was worth more than he needed personally, he would have to sell it to not be a hoarder.

I'm pretty sure in that case the company would never have grown to what it is, as there's ample studies showing that founders, who know a business, provide more growth than letting outsiders run a company, when averaged across all companies. I'd suspect this is the case for this person also.

So your plan would have resulted in less total worth provided to humanity.

And, as I pointed out above, the only way to realize that value is to sell ownership - so now you've removed some cash from someone else to get ownership, given that cash to this owner, for a net zero change in cash available for society, with a likely less value add over time. This is why these ideas do not work economically.

Warren Buffet is a good example of this - he was far better at allocating capital than most (perhaps anyone), and when he dies the world will see that worth transferred to charity. Had he constantly handed it over earlier to less efficient capital allocators, there would have been less growth, since others are likely far less capable than he was/is, and there would be less total for the planet.
An argument, if anything, for open, transparent, and responsible governance. Certainly something that we are particularly struggling with at the moment.
that donates money to "product design"

They also fund programs by Save the Children: http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.827580...
What's even more interesting is that Office 2019 will only be supported for 5 years instead of 10. Do they actually expect governments and companies to buy a new Office license every 5 years?

Even more of a reason for governments to switch to open source. We're witnessing vendor lock-in and abuse in action here.

I've also noticed since Nadella took over, the Q&A team has been cut (resulting in Windows 10 having way more bugs than previous Windows versions), previous builds/editions get support for even less time (like 18 months only), forcing users to get whatever Microsoft pushed in the latest version of Windows, or risk being vulnerable to malware. If you don't like what Microsoft introduced in Creators Update, and you want to stick to the Anniversary Update, tough luck. You'll have to get Creators' Update or say goodbye to patches.

This will likely result in Windows supporting less and less legacy software in the future, where "legacy" will mean something like 5 years old (as it already does for Office 2019, apparently).
>those of us who don't want anything to do with Windows 10 won't now buy their new product in this case

I’m sure a multi-billion dollar corporation with some very smart people thought of that. They probably even consider it a benefit.
The parent post begins: "A number of things prevents from moving to different countries..."

The word "prevent" has connotations of impossibility which weren't warranted.
Not quite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
But isn't it the point that the doctors have no clue what happened? And struggling for an explaination go with the sonic attack vector? I see this often, people who are pressed for an explaination and have no clue make things up.
The thing is that 4:2:0 chroma is the default in most codecs because the main profiles only support that. You couldn't stream full chroma video on twitch even if you wanted to.

And subsampled chroma looks terrible on colored text, edges between flat colored areas and similar things.[0] So 4:4:4 is a must, only once you have that you can think about adaptive quantization for chroma.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/420-prog...
Today we have many projects with no Windows support, like this Minimodem. I couldn't even develop React or React Native apps on Windows until a few years after they had been out. I would love to be able to use Redis on Windows in production for corporate Intranet apps where they often run Windows only.

It's kind of annoying to me, but I don't blame the authors. I feel like many Linux users blamed Microsoft for things like this, but honestly - why should anyone go out of their way to support an OS that they don't use?
Baked-in telemetry, for one.
Out of curiosity - can anyone weigh in on whether what she's doing is illegal with regard to copyright?
They already have scanners with countdown timers that track and enforce an average time to scan.
http://amazonemancipatory.com/time-to-pick-countdown-timer

This tracks pretty well with the beginning bit from the Manna short fiction. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Next up Alexa headsets with an AI to direct and fire workers.
Yes, that was what I said exactly. The price was $20-30 dollars and if you were long on that with even a small position you would have made significant money over the long term. BTC has always fluctuated a lot but on average if you held the currency for long periods of time; >1 year, you would have more money than you had previously. It is short term speculators that have always driven volatility.
According to a quick Google search, this story is being run by The New York Times, The Daily News, The Guardian, Fox, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Cnet, among others.

I can’t help but notice it’s not on The Washington Post.

Has anyone done an analysis of the post to see if the number of anti-amazon stories they publish went down after Bezos bought it?
> elected by the people

Elections lie on a spectrum from fair to sham, and the greater the influence of the powerful, the more it resembles a sham.
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Given the existence and size of anti-liber{tarian, al} movements in today's politics, I very much doubt this.
Terminals can display images?

Wow.

I'd consider that pretty amazing and useful for displaying visual information like charts, flame graphs, latency plots etc.

Is this a (de-facto) standard? If not, it should be!
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You are not alone. Seems quite a few people really do prefer 'conversations' in which theirs is the only viewpoint posited.

I question how many people here are interested in learning versus simply proselytizing.
(shrug) Whatevs...
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Mark Kurlansky's rather fascinating book "Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World" asserts Basque fisherman were working the banks off North America possibly even before Vikings began their exploration. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-cod-a-...
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+ Prorating bonuses based on salaries means that the lowest compensated people will tend to get, "better than nothing" bonuses and the best compensated people will get "buy a boat" bonuses. Essentially, this means that no matter what you do, there are likely to be a swath of workers for whom working hard to improve their bonus makes little or no rational economic sense...both at the high end and the low end.

+ Different bonus structures for different departments means that the company explicitly values some functions over others. That's good for moral in the operations that are highly valuable. It's bad for moral in the operations that are at the bottom...because those employees cannot have much effect on their bonus.

+ Sales is always a separate animal. Sales incentives are hard to get right because there is often misalignment between bonus metrics and what is good for the company. Closing a bad deal may be good for a salesperson's bonus. Sales people whose primary compensation is bonuses are more likely to be mercenary and leave when sales slump due to outside factors (the very time when developing leads, qualifying prospects and closing sales is most critical to the business).

+ The description of your problem does not describe the business purpose of profit sharing. Is it for retention? Is it to reduce salary burden? Is it for recruitment? To increase uncompensated overtime? Without a clear business purpose, there are no metrics by which to determine the program's success and to fine to the details.

+ It's ok if the program is simply out of goodwill toward employees. It's ok if the program is to build a shared sense of mission. Those are also good business goals. Structuring it to further those goals means thinking about the effects that a profit sharing bonus is likely to have on individuals. It requires thinking about how they perceive the bonus structure in terms of fairness; the impact financial impact it has on their life; and how it fits into a rational economic actor model. None of it is easy.

+ Equity is probably a better way to align incentives over the long term. Bonuses align interests only for people who are there in the last month of the year.

+ In cases of tightly controlled entities such as Limited Partnerships in the real estate industry, shadow equity is sometimes used to compensate non-partner employees (those who do not have capital at risk) based on performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_stock

+ The simplest profit sharing plan is each employee receiving the same amount.

Good luck.
Thanks for this! Almost dropped my phone in to the potty laughing out loud. Xcode 9 is that bad huh??
>not all advertising is unscrupulous

That's a strawman. But even if the businesses you work for are decent, they are nevertheless in competition, a "race to the bottom" if you will, with unscrupulous ones. And even if the consequences of a hypothetical overhyped-but-mediocre yoga class are not dire, there are many products for which this is not the case (smoking, skydiving, sugary drinks, surgery, etc).
to an extent yes. There is another lever, PA-DSS compliance which is less stringent than full PCI-DSS compliance because you aren't actually storing card data on your servers, they are just passing through, or pages that collect them are being rendered by that server.
I'd say it's the best overall Windows version from a UI and features perspective. But the forced updates have caused me so many headaches that I hate it nearly as much as I hated XP during its spyware and rootkit wild west era.
Who wants this digital Bluetooth garbage for playing music? I'll stick to my analog crap that doesn't know one source from another, and isn't overpriced, thanks.
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Natural language philosophy constitutes legitimate dialectics, not pedantry. In the former you add precision by first synthesizing an agreement of terminology and introducing relevant definitions. In the latter you argue against the meaning of a word instead of the intended meaning of the argument.

In point of fact, it’s pedantic to dismiss an argument from legality on the grounds that it’s “legal” and not “ethical”, because legalislation (and more importantly the reasoning behind it) is a subset of ethics. A carefully considered discussion will include the existing literature that has come out of previously considered discussion; therefore it is fully reasonable to consider legal arguments in a discussion of ethics.

To reiterate, you need not agree with legal arguments, but to call them pedantic or irrelevant is simply incorrect. They’re exceptionally topical.
"When a crowd at a football game emotes, they all emote together.. inevitably and causally functioning as a coherent whole. Because the individuals cannot chose their reactions, they react the same way. "

Definitely not. Only if I feel part of the group, I feel and emote with the group.
But if I think football(or soccer) is stupid and the crowd full of stinking alcoholics, then you won't find me cheering with the group. I experienced both. But that's also why you won't find me near a stadium.

But with society in a bigger context, it is not so easy to choose.
I am not sure if that’s what grandparent meant. Office used to be Windows-only. Beside being quite “easy to use” back in the 90s, Office was critical in the success of Windows.
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If they didn't they've certainly had a very long time to correct it.
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What, you were serious when you demanded that I personally fix the world?

I'm still doing quite a bit and making the best use of my talents: way more than enough effort to call the facile critique of "start a political party".
The money is now in a foundation, that can re-invest in Ikea or use it for philantropical purposes. It's a nonprofit according to Dutch rules, and they have decided not to tax those.

Eventually the money is spent on something, and will be taxed then.
Like capitalists...
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Someone says "minesweeper", I post my implementation - “bugsweeper”. It's an established ritual.

Here go: http://www.ronilan.com/bugsweeper/

Few notes:

1. This is dated January 2014. It is a job interview homework.

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> Already these folks have a different metric for success. Why would that be different here?

No they don't. Amazon's metrics are the same for everyone.
I'm guessing this is an informed business decision on their part.

It boils down to a pretty simple inequality: Supporting older versions of Windows in the new Office is only worthwhile if the expected additional profits from sales to people who have decided not to upgrade to Windows 10 are greater than the expected additional development cost of supporting older versions of Windows.

Probably there's a fudge factor in there, too. Probably, that fudge factor nudges things away from supporting Windows 7, because Windows XP. I'm guessing it also nudges things away from supporting Windows 8, because I don't know of many people who were willing to upgrade to Windows 8 but no further.
If we're sharing our favorites then I don't think you can go wrong with La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928).

The criterion collection version is great and watch it with Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, especially if it's your first time.

It's one of the more high profile silent films but with good reason. If you want to try something different with friends but don't want them to fall asleep I've had good success with this film.
I've been amazed how many obscure Office features (that have been around since well before 2010) that people actually use, and consider a borderline crisis if they're not working right. Where I work, anything not Microsoft Office would become an immediate nonstarter.

But it definitely depends on your environment. For my personal use, I use Etherpad, EtherCalc, and Wekan on Sandstorm.io, despite having access to the full Office 365 through my community college.