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Do anyone besides a few hobbyist care about bsd anymore? (no osx isn't bsd)
I get the impression they lost most of the support they had in the server market? Is Yahoos use is shrinking?
Besides some embedded stuff is it used anywhere in notable number commercially today?
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Too bad FreeBSD uses an even older version of what you call garbage, huh?
Mostly everything else is already mentioned, BSD is busy porting Linux stuff (specifically software that has sometimes existed for months/years) and apparently it takes less time than developing from scratch, indeed.
Btw, last time I checked neither FreeBSD or OpenBSD had Quartz. Nor WDDM for that matter. The OSes that do have those are anything but "Free" and "Open" though ..
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The biggest threat to Linux is not BSD, Mac OS or even Windows is EVIL Patent System. Large companies like Google IBM or HP, Linux friendly in day to day life, support that system who threatens in the long term the entier Open Source World.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 02:23 am |
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csamillerp Member
Something that has been perplexing me for a while now is Lee's tendency to order frontal assaults on very strong positions. The major ones would be malvern hill and the pickett pettigrew trimble charge. It has got me thinking that maybe with jackson Lee was just a mediocre offensive commander. I know by me saying that i'll ruffle alot of feathers but i'm also a southerner and I'm not saying Lee was a bad general, whether he was a great offensive commmander or not he still remains one of the greatest generals of all time because of his way to fight a war with limited to no resources and instilling the love of his troops. But i want to know everyones view on this... was lee's only offensive successes possible because of jackson? and if so do you think jackson would have been a better commander? |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 02:40 am |
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BobInFla Member
Jackson excelled as a Corps-sized Commander. I don't think he would have been nearly as capable of commanding at a higher level as Lee was with the AoNV. |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 02:44 am |
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csamillerp Member
Jackson was never put in command of an army sized command though so it would folly to think that he wouldnt have made a good army commander. is actions and success in the valley shows that he was an excellent commander of a solo force |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 02:50 am |
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I was just looking at BedWell's War is All Hell: A Collection of Civil War Quotations today and kinda had to chuckle at of the quotes in relation to some of what we've recently been discussing. Both in relation to Malvern Hill.
I think in relation to this question that might say something. It really sounds like Lee felt like he should have succeeded not only in dislodging McClellan but in destroying his army. And by contrast Biddle sounds like he thought they should have held the position, maybe let Lee try again. There's also the whole Granny Lee and King of Spades thing when it comes to Lee. It could be possible that his actions offensively could have at times been in response to the ridicule he got early in the war. By Gettysburg the army's opinion of Lee had changed, but it is possible that these nicknames tended to come back to haunt him and he had to prove himself to at least himself. Or that he simply tended to stretch himself at times when he shouldn't have and the nicknames had absolutely nothing to do with it. |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 03:02 am |
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BobInFla Member
csamillerp wrote: Jackson was never put in command of an army sized command though so it would folly to think that he wouldnt have made a good army commander. is actions and success in the valley shows that he was an excellent commander of a solo force To suggest Jackson might have been better AoNV commander than Lee is pure speculation. I think Jackson "army" in the Valley Campaign only numbered at most 17,000 men. The Army of Norther Virgina numbers' varied from 50,000 to 90,000. Jackson's Valley campaign started with a tactical defeat at Kernstown when faulty intelligence led him to believe he was attacking a small detachment. He had certain advantages in the Valley Campaign (e.g., on friendly territory and interior lines), not to mention facing pathetic incompetents like Fremont. Last edited on Mon Oct 31st, 2011 03:16 am by BobInFla |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 03:30 am |
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csamillerp Member
the true fact is that jackson was an amazing leader. His troops loved him, he had created almost a legend persona about them. He only had one defeat that i can recall and almost all of his victories were stunning ones. He did have a tendency for aggressive attacks but he also went on the defense when needed. i think the true turning point of the war wasnt gettysburg but was the death of stonewall jackson |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 06:35 am |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
I think the true turning point was Vicksburg. |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 01:43 pm |
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Mark Member
Jackson didn't understand the political dimensions of the war and he had a nasty habit of never letting his subordinates know what his plans were. He was an excellent commander of an independent force, but he would have been awful in the capacity of Army Commander. Mark |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 06:21 pm |
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BobInFla Member
csamillerp wrote: the true fact is that jackson was an amazing leader. His troops loved him, Jackson was a true eccentric. His secretive nature did not stand him in good stead with his subordinates, who were often not aware of his overall operational intentions until the last minute, and who complained of being left out of key decisions. I doubt if anyone was more revered in the Confeceracy than Rober E. Lee. |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 07:13 pm |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
Actually, until his death Jackson was more loved than Lee. |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 08:12 pm |
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BobInFla Member
who was more "loved" by his soldiers is a subjective opinion and a rather pointless argument. At most Jackson, had 17,000 men in his army. Lee had anywhere between 50,000 to 90,000. I really doubt if Lee's men loved Jackson more. For the sake of argument, if in Lee's Army of 68,000 only half of them (34,000) loved Lee and all of Jaclson's 17.000 loved Jackson, who was loved more - Lee whom 34,000 loved or Jackson who was only loved by 17,000? Who and why the propaganda-inspired civilians loved and admired more as compared to whom and why the soldiers in the field loved and admired is not the same. The soldiers in the Union Army of the Potomac loved McClellan. So what? No doubt that he cared for his army that he created but stunk as a tactician and battlefield commander. Last edited on Mon Oct 31st, 2011 08:13 pm by BobInFla |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 09:19 pm |
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HankC Member
Not sure I would call it a 'tendency'. Flank attacks and *defending* against frontal assaults were more his forte. Malvern Hill was a complex plan that fell through, but overall casualties were not so lop-sided as Pickett's Charge. Gaines Mill was also a frontal assault. It 'succeeded' too late in the day against too small a portion of the AotP... |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 09:34 pm |
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BobInFla Member
At Gettysburg, Lee kept probing for the weak spot in the Union position. His flanking movements failed. He failed to breakthrough the Union's right flank (Culp's Hill), failed to breakthrough the Union's left flank (Round Tops and Peach Orchard), so he reasoned that the Union center must be the weak spot, thus Pickett's charge. Last edited on Mon Oct 31st, 2011 09:35 pm by BobInFla |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 10:38 pm |
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csamillerp Member
I think everyone knows the story behind pickett's charge bob and i dont think you can call an attack by 12500 troops a probe. I know Lee preferred to attack in directly but occasionally he would chance those seemingly impossible assaults like Pickett's charge. Malvern Hill was a complex assault but so was Pickett's charge, with stuart going around the union lines at precisely the same time as ewell was suppose to break the union left and pickett to break the center. Most complexed plans during the civil war didnt work because of communication. Some of the best victories was due to simple plans. I dont disagree with you that Lee was more revered but you have to remember Jackson had a name for himself when Lee was just a footnote in the civil war |
Posted: Tue Nov 1st, 2011 02:57 am |
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Old Blu Member
Good response, CSA. |
Posted: Tue Nov 1st, 2011 05:14 am |
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BobInFla Member
csamillerp wrote: i dont think you can call an attack by 12500 troops a probe. agree. By "probe" I meant Lee was in fact always attacking what he hoped were the Union's "weak spot" at Gettysburg. His two initial attacks were on the Union right and left flanks: Culp's Hill and the Round Tops. Not achieving success there led him to assume that the center must be weak. |
Posted: Tue Nov 1st, 2011 09:13 am |
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Hellcat wrote: I think the true turning point was Vicksburg. +1 |
Posted: Wed Nov 2nd, 2011 04:01 am |
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csamillerp Member
Lee took an educated guess, but Lee was too brilliant to think his attack would have any success i kind of think maybe pickett's charge was a diversion to draw troops away from the union right flank. Supposedly lee thought the union center was weakened to reinforce the two flanks if that was so why would he start with a large artillery bombardment that took all morning to assemble? The union wasnt blind they had a clear veiw of the confederates on seminary ridge. If Lee had any hope of victory by assaulting the center then why the display of force with 140-160 pieces of artillery and 12500 men moving into position? I think it was a diversion that resorted into a full out attack when ewell attacked culps hill too early. Lee had seen what happens to infantry that crossed opened ground at fredricksburg he had personally seen it at malvern hill and antietam and 2nd manassas, i find it inconcievable to think that Lee was nieve enough to think his troops wouldnt suffer the same fate as those that participated in burnsides attack on marye's hieghts |
Posted: Wed Nov 2nd, 2011 04:03 am |
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csamillerp Member
oh and by the way thanks old blu |
Posted: Wed Nov 2nd, 2011 05:12 pm |
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j harold 587 Member
The federal lines at Gettysburg were a triangle defense. The fishhook was not mentioned untill the 1880s. The training of the time taught that a commander would strike each leg of the triangle and if no breakthrough was acheived the assault the point as the reasoning was that the center had been weakened to reenforce the legs. The West Point trained commanders in the center were anticipating an assault there as several regiments who were armed with smoothbore muskets had advised their troops to double charge their cartridges in anticipation of an assault. Lee also had received inteligence from the Georgians who had a temporary breakthrough on 07/02. |
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So skin care might be one of my top 10 favorite things in the world. Seriously.
Luckily I work at a company where I can talk about it all day long and help others, but also help myself.
I get told on a daily basis how beautiful my skin is, but the older I get, the more I have to work at it! I finally caved and ended up getting a Clarisonic Mia 2 today with Boscia products and I cannot wait to get it.
Even though people tell me I have perfect skin, it really isn't. Getting a 10x magnified lighted mirror hasn't helped (lol) but I've been using some good stuff for a while and I'm in love with it. My customers ask me all day every day what I use, so I'm just going to put it out there into the tumblr-verse. If anyone has any questions especially in regards to Lush or vegan products, feel free to ask!
MAKEUP REMOVER: Switches between Lush's 9 to 5 cleanser (what I'll be doing with my Mia), and when I'm lazy, elf's Makeup Removing Cleansing Cloths. 9 to 5 is definitely my favorite, and super gentle since I have dry, sensitive skin.
CLEANSER: Switches between Lush's Let The Good Times Roll cleanser and Buche De Noel cleanser. Unfortunately these are both holiday items (LTGTR WAS just recently re-discontinued - if you store has any, get them now!) but I bought plenty of LTGTR and have it stashed in my freezer for when I need to bust it out! Now that it's gone for good I definitely have to use it more sparingly; really difficult when it smells like cookies! If I happen to run out of both, I'll move back to Angels on Bare Skin.
TONER: Lush's Eau Roma Water. Period. I have taken off the spray part and put on a regular cap so I use it with a cotton ball. Best stuff ever. EVER.
DAY MOISTURIZER: Kiss My Face's Face Factor SPF 30 when my skin actually is glorious, and I will use it as a base in the summer. Usually a tinted moisturizer or BB cream is used more daily. My all-time fave which I am almost out of is Stila's Illuminating Tinted Moisturizer with SPF 15 (RIP), but I also have elf's tinted moisturizer with SPF 20 and Smashbox's Camera Ready BB Cream with SPF 35, but I am not a big fan of it; I'll be switching to Boscia's BB Cream when I run out of it.
NIGHT MOISTURIZER: Lush's Full of Grace Serum bar. Seriously one of the best buys in the store. I feel like a princess every night when I go to sleep and I wake up, and my husband always sniffs me happily and says I smell like Lush. Moisturizes like a beast without breaking you out - any skin type can use this. I've also been using a sample of Tarte's Maracuja Oil for night time, but I'm a bit meh on it. Maybe I'll try it daily over my KMF SPF.
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SPOT TREATMENT: elf's Zit Zapper or Lush's Grease Lightning. ZZ for direct spots, GL mixed with my moisturizer when my skin is going crazy. Hormones, how we love thee!
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Carolyn Penland has been driving school buses in Moore County for more than 42 years.
But she's been more than a bus driver who has taken generations of school children to and from school.
She's been a caring presence who tries to treat the children with respect. She expects them to respect her, too.
"A lot of them don't get the tender loving care at home," she said.
It's the children who have made her the longest-serving bus driver in Moore County. She has driven about four times as long as the average driver, school officials say.
Penland, 68, started driving in 1970. She laughs when she's asked if she knows how many miles she's driven.
"I really haven't even thought about it," she said.
She said she has driven every bus route in Southern Pines. She even has had riders whose parents rode her bus.
During her time as a bus driver, she also worked as a teacher's assistant for 35 years. For 13 years, she was a corrections officer. In those days, she would work the third shift as a corrections officer, drive a bus in the morning, work all day as a teacher's assistant and drive a bus again in the afternoon.
"I'd go home, take a nap and start all over," she said.
Penland still drives a bus every morning and afternoon as well as for the occasional field trip. She continues to work in the classroom, too, as a substitute teacher.
On the bus, Penland speaks to the students in a strong, caring voice and has created a sense of order. Girls sit on the left of the bus. Boys on the right. Each has an assigned seat.
On a recent afternoon, she got the children's attention after students from the primary school board the bus.
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She wears gloves to avoid getting blisters on her hands and makes sure she has enough water, ginger ale or tea to drink, especially on hot afternoons.
When needed, Penland gives the students a little more than TLC. She keeps a little money close at hand when she drives.
"You'd be surprised how many get on in the morning and haven't had breakfast and don't have money for lunch," she said.
On this afternoon, she demonstrated her driving and disciplining skills - and ability to multitask - as she took about 60 kids home from Southern Pines Primary and Elementary schools.
While driving, Penland glanced in the mirror every few seconds to make sure the pupils were OK.
"You keep your eyes on the road and your eyes on the kids, too," she said.
At one point, Penland stopped the bus at an intersection and looked back over her right shoulder for oncoming traffic before she guided the bus across Midland Road.
"You've got precious cargo on board, so you've got to take a second look every time you pull out," she said.
Penland said she has to be especially cautious around the schools as parents leave after picking up their kids.
"I wish they'd outlaw cell phones within four or five blocks of the school," she said.
Many of the children say, "Bye, Miss Penland," as they leave the bus.
She replies with a "Bye, babe," or "Bye-bye, baby."
She stopped one girl and told her to be ready for school the next morning. The girl nodded her head shyly and hopped off the bus.
The children react well to Penland, said Tonya Wagner, assistant principal at Southern Pines Primary School.
"It's really important to have someone who knows the area," said Wagner, who is in charge of buses at the school. "She's my go-to person."
About 6,200 kids ride on the school system's 119 school buses each day, with the elementary school buses taking about 55 students each, said Charles McDowell, executive supervisor for transportation for Moore County schools.
"It's a tough job," McDowell said.
Penland said she likes everything about driving a bus, except the salary, and plans to drive about three more years.
How has she done it so long?
"It takes the two Ps," she said. "Prayer and patience."
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Microsoft tries to sell home Office users on subscription pricing
Microsoft has unveiled its first attempt to seduce consumers into paying subscription pricing for its Office 365 package. For $99.99 a year, buyers get the Office 365 Home Premium, which gives them a license to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access applications on five computers in the home. …
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The UK price is £79.99 per year including VAT. Presumably the reg missed out that fact to catch you out with that £99 presume!
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Which is almost exactly what it costs for a perpetual license for Office for home users. I doubt there's enough interest in the extra bits from home users to sell many subscriptions at that rate.
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"I doubt there's enough interest in the extra bits from home users to sell many subscriptions at that rate."
Which is a missed opportunity. Had they bundled something like 100GB of cloud storage then I'd be in there. Probably other things would appeal to other users, but looks like they're spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
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lol @ "open source office suites such as OpenOffice, and latterly LibreOffice, are proving so popular in Europe at the moment" - very funny joke.
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LOL @ Already. They started the project over a decade ago and still havnt successfully completed it.
"For the entire project, which is now ending it's 79th month, the rate is of conversion has been 31 per month, or about one per day since May 28, 2003. Assuming they could triple throughput to 85 machines per month, the
project will be completed in another 11.2 years, in the year 2020."
The savings are bullshit too - it cost them far more than they will ever save to actually try and migrate.
Not to mention this is pretty much to ONLY attempt to do this anywhere as - everyone else long ago realised what a waste of time this was, this utter failure being a great example of why it isn't worth it....
Re: UK users?
Actually the migration cost Munich €43 million more than staying with Microsoft:
Freiberg also abandoned Open source by the way:
Re: UK users?
The justification in those companies is '"I need Office, and I need it to work" - so everyone still has MS Office...
Re: "the migration cost Munich €43 million more than staying with Microsoft:"
It would be more accurate to say that Microsoft have used made-up numbers, fabricated on their behalf by long standing tame Microsoft Alliance Partner, HP, to allege that staying with Microsoft would have been cheaper. But when challenged to substantiate the numbers and publish the study, neither HP nor MS was willing to do so.
99% of all statistics are made up. Especially TCO ones which the certified Microsoft dependent ecosystem are likely to use in a desperate attempt to preserve their rapidly decreasing relevance in a world where Windows no longer has a monopoly outside the IT department.
Re: UK users?
Yeah, they recently switched to Euro currency pricing including in the UK - which some people got upset about on various sides of the deal. So now $1 of software indeed costs €1 in the EU. It used to be $1 = £1 way way back, so this is kind of better.
I think that remote desktop is explicitly ruled out for application sharing in the Windows licence I read last (Win 7), and elsewhere. VNC is probably illegal on Windows as well.
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The extra bit is outlook, publisher, and access plus the skype calls and 5 licenses instead of the current 2010 3.
YMMV as to whether that's worth it for you, but around here(Oz), the price difference between Office Home and Office with Outlook is about $100 retail rate and you only get one license when you add outlook rather than 3 without it. The price with the other two products is even higher.
I'm not saying the price is worth it. Most home users don't need access or publisher and unless you've got an exchange server to hook it up to outlook is largely surplus to requirements. Five licenses instead of three is nice, though we won't really know whether home and student will end up with five for 2013 or not. If you need those extra things though and you plan on upgrading your office and you make skype phone calls, even the UK price is a steal.
Greedy bastards
Are MS trying to kill their joke of a subscription model even before it starts?
£80 per year for a bloated, hard to use (thanks to TIFKAM influence) office suite containing a massive amount of crud that no sane home user is ever likely to want to use? Fine, it can be installed on up to five systems, but how many home users really care about that? To save money most are willing to have it on one or two system and leave the others as they are.
As a generalisation, home users don't care about Outlook, most use webmail these days as online mail services integrate well with mobile phones, attempting to use Outlook effectively ties you to MS mail services of some description. Publisher? Sane professionals don't use it, home users get by with Word. Next they'll be flogging powerpoint to home users... The home users that may want to use much of this software tend to want to use it for business purposes, which if you check the licence terms on this service is prohibited - it's for home, personal use only.
Now if MS were to provide something like a subscription service for just MS Word at £15 per year for home use only then they'd have a massive uptake. Unfortunately the greed has set in and they're more interested in foisting the rest of the MS Office suite at users and trying to get them locked into proprietary non interoperable software packages and systems than providing a good value service for end users.
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Meanwhile Freiburg - run by Die Grüne and about as countercultural as you'll find - decided in November to move back to MS Office.
Re: UK users?
Most home users don't need........publisher
In certain places, MS Publisher is pretty much de rigeur for school projects as it's simple to use and produces good results. I'd love to use the OO equivalent, but there isn't one.
Investigations into open-source alternatives have revealed that these fall into two categories. Either a full blown DTP package, which is waaaaay OTT for what's required and has a learning curve like the north face of the Eiger, or something simple but incompatible and shit.
Thus for the kids' homework, MS Office is a "must have". Something fairly compatible isn't good enough, as the transition between using Publisher at school and whatever-it-is at home has to be seamless, so the UI needs to be near as dammit identical.
Re: UK users?
"Actually the migration cost Munich €43 million more than staying with Microsoft:"
@AC/RICHTO/TheVogon - still at it I see
Re: UK users?
Re: AC 23:05
Good to see that the microsoft trolls are reading this forum. Shame that they can't kick the habit of posting MS sponsored lies. Funny how they always pos A/C -- not got the balls to admit who you are then ?
Re: UK users?
Actually the migration cost Munich €43 million more than staying with Microsoft:
Did you even read that article?
What it actually says is that someone at HP produced a report that seemed to say that the migration to LiMux cost Munich more than staying with Windows, but that neither Microsoft nor HP will now allow anyone to see the report (which suggests that it may contain errors) and that the people in Munich still believe that they are saving money (and one presumes that they've done their sums properly).
Re: UK users?
Well done Eadon, you got the price right this time, still missed out the bit where I pointed out the utter failure of another City to roll it out.
6/10 for effort.
Re: UK users?
dont bother arguing. I tried once and I have experience in costing an open source solution change. As I said back then, open source is not necessarily cheaper than an MS solution. Like most things it depends what you want and what resources you have. MS worked better for us. Open source wasnt cost effective.
some people must bang their drums though regardless of listening to the customer.
Re: UK users?
Actually the migration cost Munich €43 million more than staying with Microsoft:
Take a look at:
You know, as a home user, I think this would make me look for alternatives. It's worth noting that home users are generally not as demanding as business users (when was the last time you saw home user with a marginally complex Excel doc?).
100 USD a year is just too much for what they are offering, which is to say a suite of tools which only gets used 5 times a year or so (for the average home user). If they want users to move to a subscription model (which they DESPERATELY need, as they are starting to have difficulties coming up with new improvements), then they need to get this into the cheap enough to not even be worth thinking about it range. I'd put that at 20 USD a year.
£16 year per system is no huge deal for those of us who are employed, but yeah if you live alone or own 6 devices doesn't work all that well.
Owning six devices isn't an issue for most people on here, you'd just set it up on one machine and then log into that machine remotely over your network to run it. True, I'm assuming that Windows 7 and 8 keep Remote Desktop but I'd be surprised if it's gone.
This is one of those situations where MS Office isn't the best choice IMO. In fact; although it may sound very cost effective at first you'll effectively end up paying (much) more in the longer run while you actually get a lot less functionality, esp. in comparison to other solutions.
Because if you keep that subscription for 2 years you're already paying much more than a single copy of the desktop version. And although the license of that desktop version doesn't allow multiple installations one could ask him- herself how many times it would happen when everyone will be working with Office at exactly the same time? Quite possibly the license could be shared.
But most of all; in comparison to the online variants of MS Office I think its safe to say that both LibreOffice as well as OpenOffice can featurewise blow it out of the water so to speak. For no additional costs at all.
I'd say people are actually better off with the open source variants in this scenario. Because if, for whatever reason, you do run into a situation where some of the more advantaged features could come in handy then you're pretty much screwed with Office 365. Its quite a decent product, but by far comparable to a desktop version featurewise. The open source variants otoh. do provide all you might need as a home users, even more, and for a lot less money too.
With plans like these I don't see Microsoft coming out on top. Too expensive while providing too little features.
Re: Why have the hassle of remote desktops when you can have LibreOffice?
I didn't mention Open Source alternatives to Office. In case you failed to understand the point of my post, it was that having a single license and six devices is no issue, since I'd imagine people on here would know how to set up their home network to log onto that device and run Office from there.
No mention of Open Office! No mention of Google Docs! No gratuitous mentions of Open Source at all! Just pure, on-topic comment. Thanks for the downvote though.
> I'd put that at 20 USD a year.
Which is why the VLA "use at home" deal is around $15
Re: Why have the hassle of remote desktops when you can have LibreOffice?
and to carry on the theme of on-topic non-gratuitous mentions...
You use a remote desktop because your ARM cpu isn't up to running that spreadsheet you created on your PC.
You may not want to try sync'ing your Documents directory
Arrogant and Insane...
Expecting people to spend $100 per year on a problem that was already solved 20 years ago? Really?
For most people it should be $50 and done, period.
Most people simply don't need Word Perfect style overkill. The only reason this is even remotely an issue is the perception that you need to be compatible and even that is being eroded by tablets.
Re: Why have the hassle of remote desktops when you can have LibreOffice?
"You use a remote desktop because your ARM cpu isn't up to running that spreadsheet you created on your PC.
You may not want to try sync'ing your Documents directory"
For a while I tried to keep home directories synced across two Macs and one Windows machine. I have no idea why I thought this was a good idea, since it sucked big-time.
I'd also use a Remote Desktop if I had to use software on a machine that wouldn't run on others for any reason, but an anaemic CPU is definitely a good case, yes. I've also found myself using Remote Desktop because I've got an old XP license for Office on a Windows machine, but no license for Office on the Mac, and for whatever reason it was much more convenient to be using the Mac at that moment than swap to the Windows machine.
Re: Why have the hassle of remote desktops when you can have LibreOffice?
Ah yes, hassle free open source. I had LibreOffice running very nicely as a backport on my Ubutu 10.04LTS laptop. Until last week, when an upgrade removed LibreOffice completely, but left enough cruft in my system that OpenOffice wouldn't install. Yes, that's what every business user needs, the excitement of wondering whether a business-critical application will just vanish one day. Keeps you on your toes.
Still, all I had to do was upgrade to Xubuntu 12.04 using the handy distribution upgrade tool. Which left the system unable to boot, as is traditional with Ubuntu upgrade tools. So then all I had to do was reinstall from a USB stick, which went fine apart from the way that 12.04 no longer supports my wifi card, and it took four reinstalls and six reboots to find one of the many suggested solutions which worked.
Re: Why have the hassle of remote desktops when you can have LibreOffice?
EPIC MEGA HYPER COLOSSAL FAIL! Should've used Linux Mint. It's the new Ubuntu, you know.
(Who am I now? :) )
Re: Why have the hassle of remote desktops when you can have LibreOffice?
"For a while I tried to keep home directories synced across two Macs and one Windows machine. I have no idea why I thought this was a good idea, since it sucked big-time."
I presume Mac's being Unix based support Samba and thus Windows shares, why didn't you just host your home directory off one Mac and have Windows and the other Mac access it directly?
I have a Linux file server for that exact purpose, Linux clients access via NFS, Windows clients access via Samba shares. You should be able to setup something similar without too much hassle.
@ JEDIDIAH - Re: Arrogant and Insane...
Wrote :- "Most people simply don't need Word Perfect style overkill. "
And if I did I still have my old copy of WordPerfect and could get it to run too. I would have thought that nearly everyone with a PC has had a workable word processor at some time, enough for their needs. What do people do with this software - has it all rotted away?
"For $99.99 a year, buyers get the Office 365 Home Premium, which gives them a license to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access applications on five computers in the home. Subscribers also get 20GB of space on Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage system and 60 minutes worth of free Skype calls per month."
"If no payment is forthcoming, they will only be able to access their documents in read-only mode or via a printer"
My answer to this is to tell them to shove it up their arse, use Libre Office, and keep it all on your own hard drives.
"The biggest financial losers are those who purchase the Office Professional package. The $399.99 price tag converts to £254.1 or €296.64 at current rates, but the British will pay £389.99 and European counterparts get stung for €539.
It's not hard to see why open source office suites such as OpenOffice, and latterly LibreOffice, are proving so popular in Europe at the moment. US companies like Microsoft and Apple traditionally cite the higher costs of doing business across the pond as the reason for the price differential, but it's difficult to see how such high margins can be justified – in this hack's opinion, at least."
Microsoft = Gouge, Gouge, Gouge....... = Fuck them. Ripping you off = fucking them off.
"If they want users to move to a subscription model (which they DESPERATELY need, as they are starting to have difficulties coming up with new improvements), "
How do you top stupidity and grafting?
I know, lets change the packaging from 2013, to 2014 and double the prices!!!!
Smiley Face = Microsoft's best efforts sent me into the loving arms of Linux.
Best advertisment ever...
... for switching over to Open Office.
Re: Best advertisment ever...
I will do you one better.
Open office with the MultiCloud File Manager. This way you can store your files on any cloud service or locally. Google Drive anyone?
They can charge
what they like, makes no odds to me. I just hope it supports ODF or earlier versions of Office file formats else wise all those people who use MS Office are not going to be able to open any documents I send to them.
Still that's their problem, just like opening proprietary standard documents in OO is my problem.
Re: They can charge
Give us one good reason why they would want to open any documents you send.
Re: They can charge
"else wise all those people who use MS Office are not going to be able to open any documents I send to them."
And with that attitude professionally you'll soon never have to send anyone a document again!
"And with that attitude professionally you'll soon never have to send anyone a document again!"
You're right there, but for completely different reasons than you may realize. I think the OP makes a perfect argument, and lets not forget that we're talking about home usage here, NOT business use.
But about that sending... A few months ago a friend of mine setup a list of stuff (todo list) for me and a couple of other people. Basically the idea to 'share' some sort of knowledge base. Needless to say; in daily (work) life he's using MS Office but at home its all LibreOffice for him.
He didn't sent us any format at all; he sent us the URL of a text document which he put online using the Google tools. I clicked, and could view and edit. Even though I don't have a Google account (nor have any desire to get one).
To some extend you can always accomplish the same using SkyDrive (though I'm not 100% sure about that anymore considering the major changes MS made in this field recently).
My point: with the OP's attitude he doesn't even HAVE to send documents around. IMVHO.
Re: @HolyFreakinGhost
Sounds eminently sensible to me. I've been in academia for the last ten years, and got very used to habitually passing everything around in PDF which - like Adobe or not, and I lean towards the "not" camp on that one - is at least open, these days, and presents your document exactly as you intended it. Contact with the real world outside of academia was an ugly shock because people are asking for and demanding .doc files! I thought that had died out in about 2003 or so, except for out-of-date university admin departments. Alas, no.
Obviously I understand the need to pass around documents that can be edited; to me the sensible option always looked - and normally still does, despite the existence of .opf - to be .rtf which can be opened in Windows, Mac and Linux by a variety of programs, although I'm increasingly seeing things .rtf can't do so I'll probably revise that opinion the first time I get really irritated by something not working.
Simply avoiding the whole stupid issue and using cloud tools - whatever they are - is a perfectly reasonable alternative. At least you know that everyone is using the same word processor and the same fonts, so there's none of this rubbish with different word processors rendering the files quite differently which recently drove me potty importing a .doc into LibreOffice or exporting a .doc from LibreOffice into Word.
That or everyone just sodding use LaTeX and pass the source around. It's not hard to learn...
Crazy Prices. Considering anyone who can take advantage of the Home User Program can get their own copy of Office 2013 for £8.95 this is just nuts.
The next step in this shift to a subscription business model is to phase out the boxed/download product, which will make the free Office alternatives the only choice for people with more sense than money.
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As we watch -- daily Washington spends seemingly out of control.
It's hard to believe -- even in some cases to imagine that once things could get done in Washington DC.
And by a democratic president by the way it was almost two decades ago.
The President Bill Clinton declared that the era of big government had ended.
The Clinton administration.
Two cut welfare rolls was dramatic.
Cutting those well for our roles from former.
-- point it's thank goodness four point six million.
-- In the 1996.
Cut from two to us.
By 2002.
Is it and if that is not growth.
Dramatic I don't want -- we can you imagine.
Even suggesting in Washington DC right now that we're going to take half the problem.
And deal with -- and fix it and that shorter and order.
Those numbers by the way include everyone who participated and welfare programs over that period of time food stamps child care medical assistance.
Programs that help pay utility bills just as we have now.
But a decade later.
We're looking at some very different numbers and at an alarming prospect for the nation.
A report from the Congressional Budget Office confirms that we are more than ever in our history.
An entitlement nation.
Last year nearly 45.
Million America.
-- 45.
We're on -- stance of I mean it's just staggering human -- directives that -- That one -- seven Americans.
Is on food stamps.
And yet.
This is not the discussion.
That's a 7% increase from 2007.
-- and by the way.
There will be -- -- in those numbers anytime soon of the Congressional Budget Office is right in its projections it's not just food stamps either.
Disability claims are also continuing to rise even as the economy and -- According to -- -- -- data released this week they're now ten point eight million.
In this country.
On disability.
And the real number.
That one half of those people.
Have signed up and have been approved for disability.
In the last three and a half years.
That is stunning.
In just the time that President Obama has taken office.
Who says that things have gotten better that the era of big government is over.
The massive entitlement culture and our country is measured in these big numbers.
-- won't -- dollar signs eventually and under President Obama the national debt has exploded.
I think this is unbelievable from ten trillion dollars.
To almost sixteen.
Trillion dollars -- By the end of his term the national debt will -- risen by a staggering almost 70%.
And our federal government is related to spend three point seven trillion just this year three point seven -- That's almost up fourth.
One the fourth.
Of our GDP.
It's now going.
To -- out.
And all of its programs but we're back in 2002 the government was spending two trillion dollars.
GDP then well a percentage of GDP.
Our culture.
Has never been stronger more pervasive.
At least our culture of dependency.
And the words that were once powerfully descriptive of our people and our nation of fallen into disuse.
What all this amounts to is.
And the two words are won't write them because they don't wanna shocked -- But I'll just ask you this what is the last time you heard one of our political leaders one of our congressmen or senators have a president for example a candidate for any office talk about those simple simple words.
And self -- -- Independence is self reliance founding values.
That summer trying to render absolutely politically -- Let's hope they don't succeed let's do better than no let's make sure they don't.
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