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Welcome to the Preview Release of Microsoft 2014by Jarred Walton on 7/11/2013 8:58 PM EST
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Crono - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - link" I have to wonder if household subscriptions to Windows are next on the auction block."
I hope not. The subscription model might work for occasional use of professional grade software like Photoshop where I might need only a month or two of usage for a project, but for a fundamental product I use daily, like an operating system, it is not something I want to see charged to my account on a monthly or yearly basis. Software companies might benefit from the product-as-a-service mentality that seems to becoming popular, but I'd rather not worry about having to pay month-by-month. I like owning software, even if it means it isn't up-to-date in a few years time. Reply
N4g4rok - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkIt does make dealing with software licenses a bit nicer. Reply
Omoronovo - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkThis is more to do with the horrible state of current software licensing than there being any real advantage to a subscription based license. The only people this benefits directly are Microsoft; if you stop paying, you lose access to the software even if you have already paid more than the original "sales price" for the indefinite license. Reply
Flunk - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkI suspect that they wouldn't be able to get away with that, it's more likely that Windows will move closer to Android's pricing model. Either that or people will move to cheap OSes when they start charging yearly. Reply
crimson117 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkIf MS sends me a bill each year reminding me that it's not free, I'm far more likely to switch to OS X or Linux before that bill comes due.
If I eat the whole cost of the OS up front, I'm less likely to switch since the cost going forward is zero. Reply
brucek2 - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - link"$100 for an entire year" for office productivity doesn't sound like such a good deal to me. We're at least a couple decades into the personal computer era and the basic functionality needed was completed many years ago. I've paid for office suites several times already and don't see why I need to pay again so soon, and certainly not every month for the rest of my life.
I don't think its good for our economy and I know its not good for me that we're trying to greatly expand the price of basic things by changing them from a pay once and done model to a must subscribe for life mode. Companies seem to have gotten that smaller size and lower power consumption are important, maybe they'll get lower cost consumption next. Reply
jlaforge - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkI pay for Office 365 and find the desktop apps to be worthwhile. However, the basic functionality that you describe is available for free online as the Office Web apps that are part of Skydrive. These applications are constantly improving, and have already reached the point where light office productivity users will find them feature complete. Reply
Penti - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkYou also have skydrive integration if you already has Office 2010/11. So your documents are already there hosted online, if you like to and it's not like the home/student versions of Office 365 has sharepoint online. Reply
Thornik - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkKey point of MS fail are:
1. It's "online" means Internet ALWAYS have to be ON. Needless to say how stupid this assumption.
2. "Hook" like subscription is an obvious agony of MS while their income falls, but products cannot offer anything new.
3. I won't pay for "online service" just by principle: damn editor is not a "service", but a simple program! I start it, edit and close, that's it. Who the hell overcomplicate simple things??
Finally if MS will continue their self-killing, they will reach the goal :) Reply
cupholder - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkIf you need even 2 licenses for Professional, it becomes incredibly worth it. (It'd take you 8 years to cover that cost at full value)
Heck, even one license makes it pretty worth it for that same reason. Families who need 2 versions with outlook and have a kid going to college? Worth it. Reply
brucek2 - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkBut why do we need a "license"? I'd imagine virtually all of us readers here have already bought one office productivity suite. Have there really been new developments in the actual practical use of office memos, spreadsheets, presentations etc that require a full priced entire new set of applications? I doubt it, and if there were the appropriate price for them seems perhaps much smaller, to cover the incremental add.
Or take your college kid. OK, new young adult, let's say this will be their first purchase. Is $100 for life -- say roughly $7,000 in today's dollars, vastly more after adjusting for inflation -- for basic office productivity an appropriate use of resources for functionality that was mostly completed before they were even a teen? Reply
johncbennett - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkActually, the present value of a series of $100 annual payments for sixty years, assuming a 3% annual rate, is closer to $2,700, not $7,000.
Of course, I'm using Microsoft Excel to calculate this, and given that Excel has an incentive to keep me as a loyal user, you should take the result with a grain of salt. Reply
Flunk - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkIf you think they're not going to ever increase the price you're living in a dreamworld. Reply
Dug - Friday, July 12, 2013 - link"But why do we need a "license"? I'd imagine virtually all of us readers here have already bought one office productivity suite. Have there really been new developments in the actual practical use of office memos, spreadsheets, presentations etc that require a full priced entire new set of applications? I doubt it, and if there were the appropriate price for them seems perhaps much smaller, to cover the incremental add."
Yes there has. If you are an Office user then the upgrades in just Excel are worth the price. If you are paying someone $20/hr and you can get a project done quicker because of $100-$144/yr software then it is worth it. If I'm using the software and can save an hour of my time in one day then its worth it.
Right now Office 2013 costs us $379 for an open license. That's for one seat.
With Office 365, we can let a user put it on a desktop, laptop, tablet, etc. because the license is per user with 5 devices. They can log into any computer with their credentials and run the Office suite from anywhere. Our Mac users that also run bootcamp can have Office on both sides for no additional cost. Not to mention that by the time 3 years is up, there will be a new version that will have features that will help users. With 365 you can automatically upgrade.
So buying once really doesn't save any money. Especially with people or employees that have more than one device. Or even a family that has multiple computers. I have a wife and two kids that need office for school. That would cost me a minimum of $600 for a basic version for all of us.
If they need to upgrade in a few years, I've lost $300 dollars right there. Reply
name99 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkSo you are running Word 1.0 and Excel 1.0, on Windows 3.0?
Then your comparison is BS, isn't it? You're ALREADY paying to upgrade every three years or so.
There are plenty of things to complain about with Office, even about Office pricing, but your particular complaint is nonsense. Reply
brucek2 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkWhile I have a relatively current Office, I find increasingly that I'm just using Google Docs because that's what's compatible with some of the people I'm working with. Without trying to be pejorative to that service the feature set there does feel roughly like what I remember Word 3.0 and Excel 3.0 being. And you know what? It turns out that's fine most of the time. There's a few QoL things I occasionally miss but nothing that would come close to adding up to "hours" of actual gained productivity in a week or even a month. And I'd expect same would be true for most users most of the time.
I'm not going to respond to 1.0 or 2.0 because I think those versions really weren't feature complete yet. I think 3.0 was getting there with rapidly diminishing returns since then. While its true few users are actually running versions that old, I think in most cases that's because of artificial reasons like staying compatible with work mates, staying on a supported version, having the version that was updated for the current platform, etc vs. actually having received beneficial new features.
Going even farther back -- on unix shells I still frequently use vi. I'd don't know if there's been new features in the last 25 years but if so I doubt I'm noticing. I'm sure glad no one was trying to charge me $5/month for all that time though. Reply
Notmyusualid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkNot true.
I'm still using my copy of Office 2007, that I've been using for years.
I recently added Visio to it too, no problem.
Before that I believe I was using a copy from 2002.
No drama, just getting good use from your purchases. Reply
bountygiver - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkNot to mention that you get upgrades as new versions are released if you stay subscribed to the service. Reply
Notmyusualid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWhat, are all MS employees online today? Reply
Voldenuit - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkAnandtech is being Reddited.
I got 3 licenses of Office 2010 from work for $10, but I'm using LibreOffice on my home laptop (yeah, it's pretty sucky UI-wise) because I don't want to be held hostage to Microsoft's price structure.
Once all my core Steam games get Steamplay and Linux support, I'd like to make the switch to Linux, too , although the transition and learning curve so far has been too steep for me to step into - and this is from someone who's used AIX and hpUX in the work environment for several years, and who ran OS/2 Warp as his main OS for a couple years. Reply
Voldenuit - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkPS Two things about Jarred's article don't gel with me.
If MS is moving to a more rapid schedule of OS and Office releases, why are they still charging the same price for a product that is going to be superseded much quicker? I paid $99 for Win 7 on my desktop (still going strong), and $15 for Win 8 upgrade on the wife's laptop (promotion price). $15 sounds about right to me for a proprietary OS in the current market of free OSes. Reply
Voldenuit - Saturday, July 20, 2013 - linkStandalone Office used to give you 3 licenses FOREVER for $129. You don't need Pro for most home, school and small office use.
New pricing scheme is a ripoff. Reply
flyingpants1 - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkWho cares? SAS is the way to go. You own nothing and and control nothing. They'll do it if they can get away with it. It's literally just a matter of time. They tried it on xbone where they have an equal competitor. What makes you think they won't try it with Windows where their market share is ~90%?
Why should Microsoft continue supporting XP? Redhat charges money for support. Why should Microsoft provide Windows Update or anything else for free? In the age of Netflix, a small monthly fee is not a big deal for most people, especially if it disappears the upfront cost. Reply
Da W - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkYou pay 100$ a year for the whole office suite, which used to be called professionnal and cost 599$. So it's not a bad deal, it depends what you need. Reply
Notmyusualid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkMost people don't even pay $30 for Antivirus!
Many, many, many people I know are running things like AVG Free. Wake up. Reply
eanazag - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkKeep in mind that the $100 a year is five copies of Office and installable on Windows and Mac. They are bundling 20GB of Skydrive, which I haven't really used. And at least one email account from my understanding. Their new mobile app is also relying on buying into the Office 365 deal.
I dont have a subscription, but I am considering it at some point only because I have more than one computer I'd like to have Office licenses on. Reply
Notmyusualid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWho in the right mind would use Skydrive, after they gave the NSA backdoor access? Reply
Jammrock - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkThe Office 365 license is $100/year for up to five devices, PC or Mac. If you are in a home with 4-5 computers, like mine, it can be a good deal.
With four computers on the traditional model you'd pay $560 ($140 * 4) for Office 2013 home and student to be licensed. That's nearly six years of the subscription, not including the extra SkyDrive storage and Skype minutes you get. Assuming you upgrade Office at least every 5 years or so it is worth the cost.
For people who rarely upgrade or only have one or two computers it's not really worth it. Unless you absolutely have to be on cutting edge all the time. Which is why the stand-alone product is still available. Reply
webby7 - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - link"could care less"
*Shudder* Reply
mga318 - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkThe professionals are rolling their eyes at your shuttering. Do you struggle with evolutionary change, too? Or just the naturally occurring language change that's been going on for the past 40,000 years?
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog... Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkFunny enough, I spoke "couldn't care less" into my microphone with Dragon Naturally Speaking (working on that after playing with funky keyboards for a few months), and it transcribed it as "could care less". If Dragon thinks it's acceptable, who are we to argue? ;-) Reply
novastar78 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkWow... first world problems... I couldn't care less.... Reply
lmcd - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkIf you could care less, but don't, then that means the topic holds some interest to you. There is a distinct difference in both connotation and denotation of what you said, and intended, based on the rest of the article. Reply
Tegeril - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkYour list of links is amusing. Two to the same place, two both talking about the same Boston Globe article (that references the former duplicated link).
The illogical 'could care less' (when describing something that you could not care less about...) does seem to have won a place in US speech, but that doesn't make it any less shudder-inducing. Reply
B3an - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkWhatever.
"could care less" simply makes absolutely no sense when the person actually means the opposite. And "could" and "couldn't" have very specific meanings, look it up in a dictionary. Theres evolution of language and theres plain stupidity. Reply
Friendly0Fire - Saturday, July 13, 2013 - link"Theres evolution of language and theres plain stupidity."
And apparently another evolution is the disappearance of apostrophes :) Reply
tcool93 - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkA subscription required for any of their software WILL destroy Microsoft. No one will ever upgrade again, or will switch to an alternative operating system. If they think PC sales are slow now, it will be nothing compared to what will happen with a required subscription. Reply
Pirks - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkHahaha what a load of fucking stupid BS :))) LOL hahaha so funny clownie :))
Of course no one will be against subscription. Everybody is subscribed to some sort of a wireless plan, people subscribe 'cause they can get unlimited voice, data and cheapo new flagship handset. With SAS it's going to be exactly the same. People will subscribe en masse for exact same reason - they all need some software, some device and some services, subscribing for a low monthly fee makes totally perfect sense for this very common scenario. Right now people get just the smartphone with a plan, but wait a few years and MS will sell Surfaces with the same wireless plan. Want Surface Pro with wireless data? $1000 upfront or $200 on contract with unlimited voice/data. Pay off your three year contract and get a free or cheapo upgrade to the new version of Surface Pro, trade in your old one, get some reimbursement or something, keep using the fresh new one under the same subscription. Everybody will LOVE this arrangement, no big upfront payments any, use the best tablet ever with data/services/software that is regularly updated by MS for free, just keep paying subscription fee every month. Then later MS will introduce layers of subscriptions, like gold, silver and bronze, guys with gold will get pampered red carpet experience with next day Surface replacement in case of loss or damage, accelerated hardware upgrade programs (like every year or two years, faster than the other lower layers), preferred phone support, preferred expert support at the local MS store etc etc. Silver ones will get some light discounts in MS App Store and other minor promotions and bronze guys will get nothing but the replacement for old Surface every X years. This is all obvious, this is where the whole world is moving, your stupid little kiddie cries will change nothing. Be prepared, grow up and deal with it. You can't stop the march of progress, whiner :P Reply
fanofanand - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkDon Matrick, is that you???? Reply
Voldenuit - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkI think Don Mattick and Adam Orth just had a baby. Oh wait, this is Pirks, maybe it's the other way around? Reply
bji - Friday, July 12, 2013 - link"use the best tablet ever with data/services/software that is regularly updated by MS for free, just keep paying subscription fee every month."
How can you write a sentence with such an obvious logical contradiction?
Also, subscription schemes have existed for a very long time, it's not like it's some new idea that is just waiting to catch on. And it's harder to convince people to start paying a subscription fee for something that they are used to having for free than it is to introduce a new product type with a subscription fee model from the beginning. People were used to paying monthly phone bills before cell phones were invented so nobody batted an eye when cell phones came around and the service plans required a monthly fee. Believe it or not in the good old days people didn't even own their landline phones, they were rented from Bell.
On the other hand, nobody has ever had to pay a subscription fee just to use their personal computer, and that's what a subscription fee on the operating system would introduce. Reply
Notmyusualid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkQuote: "On the other hand, nobody has ever had to pay a subscription fee just to use their personal computer, and that's what a subscription fee on the operating system would introduce."
^^ My point exactly. Reply
lmcd - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkThe subscription cost exists whether Microsoft introduces upgrades within the period or not. The upgrade is therefore free relative to the baseline cost. Reply
Notmyusualid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkAgree, absolutely. Reply
Taurus229 - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkIf we continue to go in this direction, and not just computerwise, but all industries in our country, computers will only have a place for the upper class. The middle and lower class will not be able to afford all the add on fees and rising costs. Business is getting too greedy, and our country is already feeling the brunt of it coming out of the worst recession since 1929. The people just won't take much more. Where will this leave Microsoft ??????????????????????? Reply
todlerix - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkThere are a lot of solutions for different problems. If money is as alarming as you are portraying go with a no cost solution. Reply
Notmyusualid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkCan I pay for access to my hardware too?
Well, it does have firmware, that requires updating from time to time...
I must live in a South African township or something, as I know l o a d s of people not paying for antivirus, and I simply couldn't see them paying to use the base OS, that shipped with a machine they paid for.
I've never thought I'd say this, but Linux has a future, and it is bright. Reply
Metaluna - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkIt's already going in that direction, but the revolution is from below. The average joe wants tablets so they can do Facebook and a few social games and not much more than that. This is killing off the low and midrange PC market, and the accompanying software markets, faster than any corporate conspiracy (and it's not MS leading that charge...at best they are playing catch up -- badly). Hopefully it won't regress back to the 80's and before, when if you needed to do "real work" you (or more likely your employer) had to drop $10K or more on a "workstation". Reply
bountygiver - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linksubscription for OS will never work, because it is something required for all other things, unless you are renting the hardware. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkNone of this gets rid of Microsoft's biggest problem: Steve Ballmer. Reply
versesuvius - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkAm I wrong in thinking that all that Microsoft is talking about is a new user interface? Like create 3 new icons and a new swap method and they are good to go? Like Apple? The fact of the matter is that about half of the software industry, the money making part of it at least, is about doing just that. A new update for the OS every 2 months? That sucks. The "users" will always be upgrading and worrying the wits out of themselves over nothing, trying to get the latest upgrade and learn to use it to achieve the same result that they were getting before. Computers are there to simplify things not complicate them more for the net sum of nothing. Reply
Nagorak - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkSince when are frequent updates a good thing? The fact that there are a billion android updates actually sucks. It means your device is almost immediately out of date, and then apps sometimes don't work if you have an older system version. Not to mention support for phones and tablets is regularly dropped only a year or two after release. Then you have to hope that some altruistic programmer(s) out there are making a hacked version for your device, which then may or may not work well.
I'm sorry, but frequent updates to an OS is far from a good thing. It's one thing if it's bugs/security fixes, but wholesale changes to the OS just cause problems, and "confusion" as mentioned in the article.
Secondly, $100 for a year of Microsoft Office is an absurd rip off. You'd be hard pressed to notice any real vital changes from the office version that came out 10 years ago. I would say that the first Office version that came out with Win95 is probably more than sufficient for most people, even most businesses. So, frequently, relatively pointless updates are in no way worth $100 per year. If Microsoft ever goes subscription only with Office, I see Open Office and every single other alternative getting a lot more business. Reply
ATimson - Friday, July 19, 2013 - linkI'd argue that the changes in Excel 2007 to allow more than 65,536 columns/rows was a "real vital change", at least at work. The built-in PDF generation starting with Office 2007 was nice too.
2010/2013 didn't have anything particularly earthshattering, I'll admit, but I wouldn't want to go back to anything earlier than 2007. :) Reply
lmcd - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkPersonally I can't handle the 07 interface very long. I strongly prefer 10. I also always felt 10 was natural, while 07 was... fake. It looked shoddy and felt shoddy, even though it behaves almost identically to 10.
13, I need some experience with before I can say, but 10 is my favorite yet. Reply
critical_ - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkThis may make sense to individuals that don't care about upgrading there main device mere seconds after an update is released but this is a nightmare for those in support. Rolling out updates is messy. Making sure every one of our applications and tools work with the next update takes time. Many business have only recently rolled out Windows 7. Windows 8 isn't even on the radar until all necessary validation is completed and re-training of end-users is taken into account BUT Microsoft is releasing Windows 8.1 rather soon. Guess what? Windows 8 will get skipped by many for this reason alone.
Unfortunately, the gotta-have-it-now mentality is where we run into problems. How many of us had to deal with Apple's latest iOS that broke Microsoft Exchange? End-users complained but they had other ways to access their email and calendars. For those in support who already deal with the mess of BOYD (bring your own device), it was pure hell. Apple takes its sweet time (relative to the clock the support world works on) to put out fixes but we have to deal with it until the problem is fixed. Also, how many times have we dealt with Apple messing up time-changes and leap years? You'd think they'd get the problem fixed.
I hate for this to turn into an anti-Apple rant but Microsoft needs to keep focusing on the business world. Windows is configurable enough that those of us who need to power can use the "raw" system but Microsoft can cater to various markets (a la Windows Server Standard vs Windows Home Server). Let's just hope they don't take away that power (boot-to-desktop removal in the preview vs. final Windows 8).
Finally, software subscriptions are terrible. I understand that the model makes businesses happy but I like to "own" the software I use rather than have a certain amount of money deducted out of my checking account every month for the "privilege" of keeping a system running. I'm happy to pay for a subscription for services like road-side assistance, cell phone (although pay-as-you-go exists), etc. but software is not one of those things. Reply
Grennum - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkI disagree about the rolling updates being messy. They require a different method of administration. For example our CAD software gets a major update yearly and at least 5 different service packs a year. This is a great model because no single yearly jump is a huge upgrade effort, things evolve very incrementally.
Contrast this with our Dynamics AX upgrade scheme. That software is upgraded every 3-5 years, and each upgrade ends up being almost an entire new implementation. This is a terrible model to admin, maybe it is great if you like the set and forgot IT approach but that doesn't continually improve the value provided to your users.
I like rolling updates, I hope Microsoft can execute them in a reasonable fashion so more companies can stay up to date.
As for subscription, we already have an Enterprise Agreement with MS, as due many companies so the subscription idea is already here. Reply
mrdude - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkThe difference here is that it's a ploy to get your average consumer to adopt to that same model, and that's a far riskier proposition. The enterprise has a long history of subscriptions, but is Joe Average going to buy into that?
Rolling updates certainly do help, but they have to provide incentive to buy into that subscription model. I use AutoCAD for work, and although the program has evolved tremendously over the past decade, for my line of work most of those updates have added nothing but an additional sub-menu to sift through and ignore. For most people, the only changes they've seen in Office in the past decade are the minor face lifts, and I'm not sure jumping to a subscription model is going to make upgrading any more attractive. If it can open .docx, it's probably good enough
I'd like to see MS release devices, applications and features that aren't found on other competing devices and OSes/app stores. Rather than "we can do tablets too!" they should be pushing and developing technologies that others lack and truly could revolutionize how people interact with their devices; Kinect is a perfect example of MS sitting on a gold mine and not doing much with it. Reply
Beenthere - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkBy 2015 Microsucks may be nothing more than a dirty bootnote in the annals of PC history - at least we can hope so. Reply
Oscarcharliezulu - Friday, July 12, 2013 - link"Apple doesn't get it right in every case either, but I know people that have MacBook laptops, iPads/iPods and iPhones, Apple TV, iTunes, and an AirPort Extreme router, and they are willing to pay more for what they perceive as a better and easier overall experience."
I'm perceiving it being easier, every day. It does work well and is easy and I haven't found it significantly more expensive. Reply
mrdude - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkI'm not sure how a game of musical chairs is going to help them adapt to the current landscape and pave a brighter future for MS.
I've read parts of the memo, and it reads more like a motivational speech rather than a "we're going to do things differently now" agenda. The move towards subscription-based models is a smart idea, but only if you can make it work and provide incentive to the user. Mirroring the Adobe trainwreck isn't a good business model and requires a lot of care to not piss off your consumers. Given MS's recent moves, though, I somehow doubt they really care about consumers in the first place :P
What worries me most, though, is that Windows is their bread and butter. If MS is looking to adopt the 'devices and services' model, then they really need to get over that '$$$ for Windows' roadblock. Charging OEMs $30-$100 for a Windows license on a device that costs $200 isn't going to cut it, and when you can't sell your devices at the high margin end of the market, it gets even worse - check out the fire sale on Win RT tablets. On one hand, they've introduced Bing-sponsored ads into the OS itself, which can be seen as a move toward making Windows free and making up that licensing $$$ elsewhere (ads within the OS), but they're still charging an arm and a leg in a market that runs on razor thin margins and high volume, cheaper (relatively speaking) tablets.
One MS with a single agenda sounds all fine and dandy, but if the accountants have the final say - ads in 8.1, XBox One debacle, overpriced tablets - then it's never going to work. Reply
Voldenuit - Friday, July 19, 2013 - link>check out the fire sale on Win RT tablets.
I don't think $450 (with Type cover) for a last-gen SOC and low-resolution tablet counts as a "fire sale", especially when half the storage space is used up by the recovery partition. If anything, it's another sign of Microsoft's ongoing delusion over the exaggerated value of their brand. Reply
blacks329 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkThe rumours of Apple making iLife and iWork free on the mobile platforms (and possibly Macs as well - iLife already is free with a Mac) makes this very interesting.
On the Mac, Office is pretty pathetic, I happened to come across Pages (the iLife Word equivalent) by chance and was astonished just how much better it was than Office (even on Windows) for at least 95% of my needs, Word still has significant depth with their macros, but that fullscreen mode on Pages completely blows away anything in Word. Whether it be for heavy document editing or reading, it makes it so much easier to concetrate and just write/consume. And Keynote is also a better PowerPoint. But Excel is still untouchable.
I'm hope Apple makes iWork for iCloud free and they make their iWork suite free as well on the iPad and iPhone like the rumours suggest (a page was found in the iOS 7b3 German App Store which indicated that these apps would be free).
iWork is quite sufficient for most casual workloads for page or presentation editing. Although when it comes to number crunching nothing beats Excel on Windows, if only they could make that experience better on the Mac.
It would be interesting to see how a free across all platforms iWork suite would affect MS. Reply
name99 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkAbout as much as GDocs has affected MS...
The problem with Office is that everyone hates it (except Excel, the one part that is overall a pretty good product) but everyone is forced to use it for compatibility with everyone else. That's a hard barrier to get around, especially since for most of the people paying (large organizations) it's just not that much of an expensive, and worth it for the compatibility.
So who CAN switch? Basically individuals who don't need compatibility. Which means
- people giving presentations by themselves
- people making spreadsheets for themselves
- people writing documents which they submit as PDFs (ie read only format)
Basically home users and students. Not a market MS ever gave a damn about anyway --- they're cheap, they're happy to use some version of MS Office from 10 years ago or some bootleg copy. That's why MS offers those cheapo home/student packages in the first place. At least that way they can make SOME money occasionally from these people --- if they charged full price, no-one would pay and MS would make nothing.
The way this changes is some LARGE organization (The Pentagon, UCLA, Boeing) decides there's value in switching from Office to GDocs to iWork. I don't see that happening. These organizations are full of drones who have zero initiative and whose only skill set is that they happen to know how to click a few buttons in Office. Switch them to anything else and you'll be in for a year or more of zero productivity and never-ending whining about how the old way of doing things was so much better. Reply
Subyman - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkI'm wondering if fast iteration is sustainable. The article compares iOS to Windows iteration, saying that Windows takes years between updates but iOS/Android are constantly changing. I think that is a poor comparison. iOS/Android are in their infancy and need to be iterated on quickly. But if you look at OSX, Ubuntu, etc, they have major releases every 2 years or so instead of every 6 months. I think there is room to tighten the releases, but I'd hate to have to move onto a new OS every 6 months on my main computer. Windows going sub would be a one way ticket to OSX/Linux for me. Reply
blacks329 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkApple has also indicated they're accelerating their OSX release cycle to about 1/year. Although they've been only charging in the realm of 20-30 bucks for the past 2 or 3 major OSX updates.
In a sense a similar $20/year for the latest greatest Mac OS without them explicitly saying as such. Although $20 is pretty easy to digest yearly. Reply
fanofanand - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkThe subscription model will not work for the vast majority of consumers because really, do we need a constantly evolving operating system to watch netflix and "like" stuff on FB? The average Anandtech reader needs significantly more, but to most people out there, computers are nothing but media consumption devices which are occasionally used to play Candy Crush or Angry Birds. If Microsoft attempts this, I would expect either new competitors to emerge or Google will figure out a way to capture the majority of that market share. Microsoft has had quite a few blunders in the last few years, but I think this would be the most harmful to the company's long-term prospects. What works for Enterprise is not necessarily what will work for consumers. Besides, people have gotten spoiled with free updates to Android etc., and without the need for x86 programs why would they pay for what they can get for free? I think if most people didn't have Windows pre-installed on their laptops you would see a significantly smaller market share going to Microsoft. Maybe it's time for a new OS to appear on the market? Reply
blacks329 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkI don't know what other company out there, besides the afformentioned 3 (MS, Apple, Google) could possibly succeed on a world wide level with a consumer oriented OS. (Succeed = sales + developers support). I honestly don't think we need more OS' on the PC or mobile front for that matter.
While web based programs may be the future, we're still at least a decade away from seeing that as plausable for >50% of the population in North America (bandwidth, local computational power among various other things) and even longer for world wide adoption. So if Google plans to stick with that approach for the PC side of things, they're not really going to be all that significant of a player beyond the ultra low end market, who would likely be better off getting an N7 or iPad mini or something. The other approach for them could be to adopt Android to the PC, they already have an ARM based Chromebook, would be interesting to see how that would play out.
That leaves MS and Apple for the traditional PC OS's. And there really won't be any new players coming in to this market, since first and foremost its a dwindling market, it'll always exist, but its shrinking in size. And even if a new player did come out, getting the amount of developer support that MS and Apple have at this point would take 5 or more years, it took Apple about a decade to shake that 'oh but will I be able to run X, Y and Z on a Mac?' I don't think any one would have the patience for a new player, especially considering how good W7/8 and OSX are.
"if most people didn't have Windows pre-installed on their laptops you would see a significantly smaller market share going to MS"
- thats been true for that past 15 years, lol. Reply
danjw - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkWhat they really need to do is go the same route as apple with a mobile OS and a Desktop one. They also need to throw out their current culture that is stagnating their OS performance. They need to start advancing the performance of Windows for it to survive. Reply
tonyn84 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkThe consistent user experience across platforms is actually something I'm very much against. I have different devices because they each specialize in certain things, I don't want them gimped on the interface to make the experience similar. A phone will never do everything my desktop or gaming console does so it should focus on being a phone first. Reply
name99 - Friday, July 12, 2013 - linkYou might want to look at what this actually MEANS in the context of Apple, rather than simply dismissing it as nonsense...
The fact that MS can't do it right, and that Google can't figure out what the hell it's plans in this area are, doesn't mean it's impossible. Reply
twtech - Saturday, July 13, 2013 - linkThe right way to do it would be to have one application/core, multiple interfaces. Desktop, phone, tablet, and 10-ft are all different use cases, with different types of input, and deserve different dedicated interfaces.
There's no reason though why you couldn't have the same underlying core OS tech for all of those devices though. That's a good idea. But trying to force someone to use a phone interface on a desktop with a 30" monitor though is a terrible idea. Reply
twtech - Saturday, July 13, 2013 - linkI really want to get rid of Microsoft products. It's just that there are no viable alternatives.
Linux is not there and may never get there as long as Linux developers continue to think it is reasonable to expect average people to enter in sequences of complex shell commands and modify configuration files in order to accomplish relatively basic tasks.
MacOS is even worse than Windows in terms of going down a rabbit hole and getting stuck tied into one company's system with limited options.
There's not really anything else available. Again, I would love to completely separate myself from Microsoft products, but it's still not an easy thing to do right now. Reply
Calinou__ - Sunday, July 14, 2013 - linkLinux is there. You're doing it wrong. Also, command line is part of life; deal with it. Hiding it is not a good thing. The only configuration file I had to edit (/etc/fstab) was to enable TRIM on my SSD. That is _not_ hard unless you're stupid.
Oh, by the way, it's OS X, not Mac OS X, Mac being Apple's computer brand. Reply
maximumGPU - Monday, July 15, 2013 - link"Linux is there."
"Also, command line is part of life; deal with it."
right on both counts, as evidenced by the massive adoption rate in the Linux user base every year. Reply
lmcd - Monday, July 22, 2013 - linkI'd say it is, given that I was able to stick my grandparents on a Linux machine (KDE) and they couldn't tell the difference until I told them. Ironically, they started having problems right after I told them. With things they had figured out successfully. Reply
Thornik - Monday, July 15, 2013 - link> a consistent user experience across all of the devices
Most stupid thing I ever heard. Like creating flying-running-swimming-jumping car.
I understand when MS tries to avoid writing applications for every device, but as soon as these devices has different nature, it's IMPOSSIBLE to make "one fit all" UI. I don't think MS beliefs to itself. Reply
Jaybus - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI see the benefit in a UI that is familiar to people, but I am not certain it applies across all devices. All the rage is everything moving to a smartphone accessing SaaS apps. Well I don't see how anyone can be productive editing full page documents on a 4 inch widescreen. If people are editing full page Word / Excel documents on mobile devices then they must have far better eyes than I do and remarkably dexterous fingers for typing on a touchscreen. I call BS. Reply
Notmyusualid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWow, I don't know where to start with this one....
$50 to $100 might be a barrier to adoption, but annual subscriptions to Office are easier to swallow?
So, I have two laptops, one I decide to use more than the other, and just over a year later, when I have problems with one, I whip out the spare on the way to my meeting - but wait, it needs to sync like 'Steam', and gain further payment before I can use it? Now where did I put that Linux disk?
I have to say I'm really not surprised. After the fowl taste that Win 8 left in my mouth (yet more bloat, more cpu usage at idle, larger OS footprint), not to mention the amount of work they spent removing the Start Menu, that everyone I know says they want there. With such a mental disconnect from their users such as that, I'd fire the entire research & marketing team.
As an MCP I say this from the heart - MS reminds me of many governments, paid by us, depending on us, but always behaving in a manner that we don't like or agree with.
If you don't agree with me, then where do you get your research from. I know of businesses in Denmark that have moved entirely over to Open Office. I know of Asian high-street computer stores selling their machines with Linux, a first for my eyes.
So despite being pro Windows for many years, I say to you Microsoft, begin subscriptions for Windows, and watch yourself sink like rock.
They even killed Forefront Threat Management Gateway, a very useful product, despite a campaign calling for them not to do so.
*shakes head in disbelief* Reply


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Pope Benedict XVI's stunning decision to step down gives the Roman Catholic Church the opportunity to choose a progressive leader who's more in step with how churchgoers really live their lives in the 21st century.
American Catholics especially would benefit from the selection of a pope ready to talk openly about religious values in modern times. U.S. Catholics' support for the use of birth control and for women as priests, for example, have long been ignored and criticized by the Vatican.
Unfortunately, the College of Cardinals is populated with many of Benedict's like-minded followers, who may be more in tune with continuing very conservative church doctrines. While certainly many people worldwide embrace these teachings, the church has been missing opportunities to reach out to more progressive Catholics not just in the United States but also in Europe and Latin America.
Benedict will leave behind a mixed record on major spiritual and church-related issues. Many Americans are disturbed by the church's inability to effectively deal with the priest abuse scandals that have victimized thousands of children, soiled the reputation of the church and financially damaged it.
The Kansas City region has certainly seen its share of trouble in that regard, as Bishop Robert W. Finn, leader of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, was found guilty of failing to report suspected child abuse.
The pope had more success in promoting the values of prayer and Christianity, with a special focus on bringing Europeans back to the church.
The Catholic Church, like many other religions around the globe, faces many challenges in the hustle-bustle world of today. They include wooing people to attend religious services and getting people to contribute time and money to the valuable outreach efforts of their churches.
Benedict's resignation offers the Catholic Church the chance to hit the "reset" button and find a new leader who's ready to embrace those challenges. Selecting a modern-day pope could create a more vibrant future for the church.

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During the Second Anglo-Boer War a famous battle was fought here.
You'll find the Elands River Falls at Emgwenya (previously known as Waterval Boven) in the Mpumalanga province where the highveld drops dramatically down to the lowveld from the Drakensberg escarpment.
There are more waterfalls in the area than anywhere else in South Africa. The Sabie waterfalls, consisting of the Horseshoe, Lone Creek and Bridal Veil falls, as well as the 70m Mac Mac falls, named for the Scottish miners who sought their fortune here during the 1870s gold rush days, are the best known and most visited.
But although the Elands River Falls isn't as high as South Africa's highest waterfall – the 90m Lisbon Falls – at 70m it's still dramatically scenic.
Situated between Emgwenya (Zulu for 'place of the crocodile') and Waterval Onder (Dutch for 'below the waterfall') in the Elandsberg mountain range, you can see the Elands River Falls through the 400m-long NZASM road tunnel, a national monument. The tunnel cuts through the Elandsberg Mountains and, when it was completed in 1883, it was considered internationally as a great feat of engineering.
Intrepid rock climbers have been visiting the falls for years, because Emgwenya is one of South Africa's top rock climbing destinations. But you won't have to scale vertical quartzite crags and cliffs to get a good view.
You'll walk to a wooden observation platform tucked up against the cliffs, where you'll have a clear view of how the falls separates into three mighty ribbons of water as it plunges over 228m of sheer red cliffs and plummets 70m down into a deep pool.
If you have the time, visit Mpumalanga's many other waterfalls, including South Africa's highest waterfall, the Lisbon Falls, named by Portuguese miners who panned for gold here.
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Who to contact
Mpumalanga Tourism Authority
Tel: +27 (0)13 759 5300/1
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How to get here
From Johannesburg take the N4 north towards Nelspruit (Mbombela). Pass the first turn-off to Emgwenya (Waterval Boven). After about 3km the road passes through a tunnel. On the other side of the tunnel, you take the left-hand turning to the NZASM tunnel and the Elands River Falls.
Best time to visit
Any time of year is good but April to October is usually dry with perfect climbing conditions.
Get around
On foot.
What to pack
Rock climbing equipment, sunscreen, hat, sturdy walking shoes or boots.
Where to stay
The charming Kiepersol B&B is 300m from the Elands River Falls.
What's happening
The Boven Rock Rally in September attracts hundreds of rock climbers.


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The Guild of One Name Studies has just twittered that "The Cheshire Parish Register Project hopes to make all Cheshire PRs available "in a reasonable period of time". This project has been around for a while with a dedicated band of volunteers working away at transcribing the registers. The project is run by Dr Colin Phillips, Dr Bernard Diaz and Jonathan Pepler, the late Dr Paul Hair was instrumental in the setting up of the project.
So good news for those with Cheshire ancestors, especially those who live outside the British Isles. Although not complete the website has a search facility so it is very worthwhile to check to see if "your parish" has been transcribed. Do read the Overview and Progress pages as they give a understanding of which parishes have been started and how far the transcription has been completed.


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ONE person has suffered burns, and two have ben treated for dry powder inhalation by paramedics after a fire in an industrial unit this afternoon.
A fire engine from Taunton was sent after reports came of a fire in the unit, made of brick and steel, at Creech St Michael, ten minutes' drive to the east of the county town.
The fire is now out.


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Home > Wellness Resources > Health Library > String-Pull Method for Removing a Fishhook
If the fishhook is not deeply embedded, the string-pull method for
removing a fishhook may be used. If removal of the fishhook is too painful,
seek medical care. If the fishhook has more than one barb, cut all the barbs
off or tape the other barbs so you do not get hurt again.
Tie a piece of string, dental floss, or fishing line to the hook
where it enters the skin.
Illustration copyright 2000 Nucleus
Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.
Hold the hook with your fingers slightly above where you tied the string. Press down gently
about 0.13 in. (0.3 cm) to
loosen the barb.
While still pressing the hook down (barb loosened), jerk the string
so that the hook shaft pulls the barb out of the skin. When the fishhook comes out of the skin, it may fly or flip out. Take
care not to hurt yourself or a bystander with the loose fishhook.
Be sure to clean the wound to prevent infection.
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• morale •
Pronunciation: mê-ræl • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: The state of our spirits, the level of confidence in what we are doing.
Notes: The disadvantage of being almost identical with another word is that derivations based on the same suffixes tend to get confused. Morale avoids that confusion by conceding all derivations, like morality and morally to moral. There are no adjectives or verbs derived from today's word. Just remember the final E makes a difference in the pronunciation of these words: morale[moræl] but moral [morêl]. (Click the pronunciations to hear them.)
In Play: Today's Good Word is used most often in referring to the spirits of some group: "Hearing on the financial news that the chief financial officer of the company is resigning is not good for company morale." In his 1874 novel, Phineas Redux, Anthony Trollope observed that "[t]he morale of our aristocracy...would be at a low ebb indeed if the public press didn't act as their guardians." Yet and still, this word may refer to individual morale: "Lionel's unexpected salary raise lifted his morale more than his standard of living."
Word History: Today's Good Word is a variant of moral. In fact, it set out as the feminine (morale) variant of the masculine form moral in French. The French root comes from Latin moralis "moral, ethical", an adjective based on mo(r)s "habit, manner, custom". The root mo- came to Old English with the suffix -t, which changed to -d, resulting in mod "mind, disposition". Today it is mood. In Old High German the same word was muot "mind, spirit", which ended up in Modern German gemütlich "amiable, pleasant". (Today we owe a debt of gratitude to the most amiable and pleasant Barbara Coon for boosting our morale with the spirited Good Word she suggested for today.)


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Todd Hunt will tell anybody who's got the guts to listen that the secret to making money producing big-time live music concerts in the digital age is not strictly relying on partners such as Live Nation Worldwide or selling VIP tickets or T-Shirts or via Facebook or the iPhone or even the mobile Web. The secret is not actually being in the live concert business at all. "The concerts are exciting. They are the glitz and the glamour. But they are not the bulk of the business," Hunt told me on the phone. He's the director of the 10,000-seat BancorpSouth Arena and Conference Center in Tupelo, Miss., which serves the greater Mid-South, including Tennessee and Alabama. "Markets vary dramatically," he said. "And it's not like we don't want concerts, but venues of this scale get at most 20% of revenue from live music." Investors should realize that Hunt is not merely speaking from his 18-some-odd years in the live event trade, nine of which were spent working and then managing BancorpSouth. Or that his facility fetches top-line sales of $1.5 million to $2 million per year from selling north of 235,000 tickets for concerts, events such as Disney on Ice, World Wrestling Entertainment and smaller local graduations and meetings. Hunt is also chairman of the arenas committee for the International Association of Venue Managers, the Coppell, Texas-based large venue trade group. That means he has a unique line of sight on just the type of facilities that are supposed to be the final payday for today's digitally enabled stars, such as Jay Z, Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake. "We love doing concerts when they work," he said. "But the risks now are so great, you have to be very careful."


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Children ages 5 to 12 can read to a pet therapy dog!
The program is designed to improve reading skills and give children a unique way to practice reading. Each child can read a story one-on-one to a friendly and gentle dog from the Humane Society's Pet Facilitated Therapy program.
Check for this event at a Broward County Library library near you.


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A member of the public has her picture taken with a street performer during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Comedians, musicians, dancers and actors from more than 40 countries have taken to the streets and stages of the Scottish capital for the next month. Organisers said 2013 will be a record year with 2,871 shows to be performed by 24,107 artists in 273 venues.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A fellow Republican state official is bucking Gov. John Kasich's proposed expansion of Medicaid, urging GOP lawmakers to reject the plan for the sake of the state's bottom line.
In a letter sent Monday, Treasurer Josh Mandel urged legislative leaders to oppose Kasich's decision, which was incorporated into the $63.2 billion, two-year budget the governor released last week.
Kasich's office said Mandel's advice ignores the benefit the state's bottom line. The governor has framed the expansion as recapturing Ohioans' tax dollars from the federal government -- but Mandel said he doesn't see it that way.
"There is no free money," he wrote to House Speaker William Batchelder and Senate President Keith Faber. "While expanding Medicaid may direct more federal dollars to Ohio in the next few years, in the long term Ohioans will have to repay the debt that is funding federal government spending."
Under the federal health care overhaul, Washington will pay the entire cost of the expansion for the first three years, gradually phasing down to 90 percent -- still well above the state's current level of 64 percent.
Many Republicans are averse to President Barack Obama's signature health care law and resistant to expanding government programs. Kasich last summer called the overhaul a "massive new tax on the middle class" but last week said the Medicaid expansion makes sense for Ohio while maintaining his opposition to the individual mandate.
Mandel said the federal Affordable Care Act was designed to force a choice "between two undesirable options" -- expanding the state-federal health insurance program and taking on related debt, or rejecting federal funding.
Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said the governor carefully weighed his recommendation.
"This is a complex issue and we don't fault people for not fully grasping it," Nichols said. "The bottom line is that this helps reduce Obamacare's impact on our continued recovery, which takes more in-depth analysis to understand. Keeping Ohio's economy strong, so our state can keep creating jobs, is the governor's top priority."
Jon Allison, of the Ohio Alliance of Health Transformation, a coalition backing the expansion, said Kasich shared the treasurer's concerns, which is why he worked a "circuit breaker" provision into the proposal that allows the state to opt out if the federal government doesn't keep its end of the deal.
"Others including the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and four metro chambers have taken a look at expansion from all angles and have concluded that, if done responsibly, taxpayers can be protected but we can also provide protection for some of our most vulnerable citizens, our hospitals and our community mental health system," Allison said.
On Tuesday, Ohio Right to Life -- the state's largest and oldest anti-abortion group -- informed lawmakers it was endorsing the expansion.
The conflict came as lawmakers got their first look at Kasich's voluminous budget bill on Tuesday.
House Finance Chairman Ron Amstutz praised the proposal and its "earlier-than-usual delivery," pledging a "thoughtful and open" process.
Batchelder's spokesman said the Medina Republican will weave input from Mandel, a Marine veteran who lost a U.S. Senate bid last year, into the budget discussions.
"Treasurer Mandel has been willing to serve our country on the battlefield and is an excellent public servant in the Office of the Treasurer," said spokesman Mike Dittoe. "(The speaker) thanks Treasurer Mandel for his sincere thoughts on this issue, which the Speaker believes further demonstrates his continuing commitment to the protection of our state and nation."
Ohio Budget Documents: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/


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Illustration 1
In the 1950s, the National Park Service restored the surviving buildings on the site to represent Hopewell Furnace during the period from 1820-1840. This view shows the restored historic site.
Key to Illustration 2
Questions for Illustration 2
1. Locate the ironmaster's mansion and the tenant houses. Why do you think the ironmaster and the workers lived so close to the furnace? What do you think it might have been like to live so close to the furnace?
2. How is the drawing different from or similar to what you imagined the site would look like based on the readings?
3. This drawing represents the appearance of the restored Hopewell Furnace Historic Site. How would it differ from a drawing showing the village when the furnace was in operation? What do you think it would have been like to live there then?
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For a good time, I geo-located the subscribers from a number of mailing lists, and then plotted them on a Google map. In other words, I asked the question, "Where in the world is the mail going?" The answer was sort of surprising.
I moderate/manage three library-specific mailing lists: Usability4Lib, Code4Lib, and NGC4Lib. This means I constantly get email messages from the LISTSERV application alerting me to new subscriptions, unsubscriptions, bounced mail, etc. For the most part the whole thing is pretty hands-off, and all I have to do is manually unsubscribe people because their address changed. No big deal.
It is sort of fun to watch the subscription requests. They are usually from places within the United States but not always. I then got to wondering, "Exactly where are these people located?" Plotting the answer on a world map would make such things apparent. This process is called geo-location. For me it is easily done by combining a Perl module called Geo::IP with the Google Maps API. The process was not too difficult and implemented in a program called domains2map.pl:
- get a list of all the subscribers to a given mailing list
- remove all information but the domain of the email addresses
- get the latitude and longitude for a given domain — geo-locate the domain
- increment the number of times this domain occurs in the list
- got to Step #3 for each item in the list
- build a set of Javascript objects describing each domain
- insert the objects into an HTML template
- output the finished HTML
The results are illustrated below.
|Usability4Lib – 600 subscribers
interactive map
pie chart
|Code4Lib – 1,700 subscribers
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pie chart
|NGC4Lib – 2,100 subscribers
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It is interesting to note how many of the subscribers seem to be located in Mountain View (California). This is because many people use Gmail for their mailing list subscriptions. The mailing lists I moderate/manage are heavily based in the United States, western Europe, and Australia — for the most part, English-speaking countries. There is a large contingent of Usability4Lib subscribers located in Rochester (New York). Gee, I wonder why. Even though the number of subscribers to Code4Lib and NGC4Lib is similar, the Code4Libbers use Gmail more. NGC4Lib seems to have the most international subscription base.
In the interest of providing "access to the data behind the chart", you can download the data sets: code4lib.txt, ngc4lib.txt, and usability4lib.txt. Fun with Perl, Google Maps, and mailing list subscriptions.
For something similar, take a gander at my water collection where I geo-located waters of the world.


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Staré Mesto
Wonderful staff, location and facilities!!!
Other int. guests Place of Hostel, especially enterance street of hostel was like the movie : hostel
the staff are very helpful. the free internet in the common room is great. its in a great location, quite close to the old town. only a short walk. close connections to the public transport also.
Cleanness Check out time!!! 10 am!! Too early.
Other int. guests Place of Hostel, especially enterance street of hostel was like the movie : hostel
I have stayed at this hostel before and will do so again. The staff are great and the rooms are nice. The location is excellent, within a short walk of the old town.
Good central location. This hostel is budget accomodation and if you keep this in mind and do not have too high expectations you will be satisfied. Be prepared to share a bathroom and shower with eight other people.
Feeling like staying in University dormitary A bit noisy and without private bathroom
Clean. Good location. Very difficult to locate especially at night with not much lighting and signboard around. The bed is very very small. *Note: I am 150m tall (50kg), but the bed is still consider very small for me, with my hand "hung" outside the bed for the whole night. I doubt how others can "fit" in it. :-P
my room was very nice, clean and tidy. the location is quite perfect and the staff was very kind with me.
Wonderful staff, location and facilities!!!
It is close to the city center Surroundings: horrible; check-in: extremely long and they get unnecessary personal private data; rooms: empty, dirty and you have to make your own bed (besides, the drapes were too short for the bed); bathroom: shared for many rooms and very dirty (cleaned once a day); quality/price: you pay for a hotel and they provide less services than a common youth hostel; breakfast: not included
Lovingly maintained hostel with a great staff. Located in a trendy, hipster neighborhood near the castle and within walking distance of old town.
Comfortable Bed, free breakfast, spacious common room, next to castle and old town The water pressure in the shower is too powerful, felt like it exploded when I first turned it on
very central location , helpful staff, freindly atmosphere, free internet with lots of access.booked a private room . terrific view from the new york balcony.
Hostel was pretty ok. It's one of the favorit hostels in town, so there were lot of people. Even that it was very crowd, it was peaceful in night time. People there were very nice, and you can get almost everything you need from reception. City centrum and big supermarket is just 30 meters from hostel so....
Our group stayed in the 6 bed New York apartment on the roof. The apartment opened up onto a roof terrace offering good views over the city. The apartment was clean and spacious. The communal area, bar and kitchen were well presented and had a funky décor which really appealed to the student generation of travelers.
very central location , helpful staff, freindly atmosphere, free internet with lots of access.booked a private room . terrific view from the new york balcony.
The best hostel I've ever seen.Clean,cheap and full of funny people...near city centre.WELL-RECOMMENDED!
I liked the excellent location which was very near the city centre and the vibrant nightlife in the hostel. I didnt like having to pay €150 up front as deposit as this seemed very steep.
The hostel staff was really nice and helpful and the room looked exactly like on the pictures The whole apartment was full of big cockroach looking insects and the shower door was broken
The fact it was not far away from the city centre and railway station. Also Reception team was very professional.
Hostel was pretty ok. It's one of the favorit hostels in town, so there were lot of people. Even that it was very crowd, it was peaceful in night time. People there were very nice, and you can get almost everything you need from reception. City centrum and big supermarket is just 30 meters from hostel so....
The single room is very clean.Good facilities. The location is very central, just beside the old town. Hotel staffs are nice. The hostel worths the money. The room is not soundproof. My neighbours are some young guys and they made a lot of noise and woke me up at the middle of the night (3am!).
Very good location. The "hostel" is in fact a relatively simple hotel with private room with bathrooms, price also adequate for such a hotel. Completely adequate for an overnight, i.e. for my needs.
Very good position inside the town. Good cleanness of the room/toilet Too much noise during the night because of other customers. No light for beside table
In the heart of the old town , within walking distance of most important tourist locations, restaurants and pubs . Free internet and 24 hour reception. We had only one window in our room which was a Sky Light . It had no blinds and since there was another building besides our room , there was no privacy. Carpet was stained in a number of places. The shower was good , but the shower cabinet looked like it would fall apart with the force of the shower. There was no shower gel and the heating was not working. No elevator. Also they had a policy of leaving keys at the reception even though there were no lockable cupboards or safe facilities.
It was near the centrum, you can easily go shopping or historical centrum.
Near to the city centre. Kind staff. Free internet in common room.
The location There was a strange smell and seemed like there was no ventilation at all. The carpet had stains and the door of theshower cabin was broken. Also it was not possible to cancel the booking up to one day before free of charge, as was announced in the booking conditions.
Really nice, helpful staff. All spoke good English which was helpful for me because my Slovak is basic. Clean, and excellent central city base without Old Town prices. Only a small thing: I have already stayed for five nights and noone has emptied the rubbish tins in the room and bathroom! Maintenance: leak from shower, where floor meets tiles of shower, near toilet. Thank you
Cheap in this city , 4 tram stops to the train station, in a walking distance to all the center of the city. Neighboord cheaper (bars , restaurants).They arrange the breakfast with a nearest cafe and it was good. // Barato en esa ciudad con poca calidad turistica, a 4 paradas de tranvia de la estacion y puedes ir andando a todo el centro. Te facilitan el desayuno en un cafe cercano y esta muy bien. Cerca hay bares mas baratos que el centro turistico. Staff not professional, the connection to internet is one computer (you must stand up to use) always occuped, bath smell bad and shower doesn't drain, hard beds, furniture very basic, tv doesn't work. // El personal es poco profesional, solo hay un ordenador con internet siempre ocupado y que tienes que usar de pie en recepcion (solo para consultas rapidas), el baño olia mal y la ducha no tragaba, las camas duras y el mobiliario de muy mala calidad, la tv no funcionaba.
It's clean no frills hostel. I've stoped here many times en route through Bratislava Noisy residents. I could not get to sleep for the noise till 3 in the morning. It does tend to be used by young people, but the walls seem paper thin.


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The arachnology collection includes nearly 28,000 vials of
identified arachnids. Arachnids include spiders, solifuges ("camel
spiders"), pseudoscorpions, daddy longlegs and other eight legged
beasties. The specimens are preserved in alcohol and, as with all
other specimens in Zoology collections, include data on where the
specimens were collected, when they were collected, by whom, and
sometimes information about the habitat in which the species are
found. Many of the specimens in the arachnology collection were
sent in by participants in the Colorado Spider Survey (http://spiders.dmns.org/default.aspx).
Many of the solifuges were collected as part of a National Science
Foundation funded project (http://www.solpugid.com).