http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/14/comscore_search_engines_google_bing_yahoo/print.html
( or http://tinyurl.com/bwnjaxy )
Market share for Bing remains flat, even though Yahoo is bleeding users.
Those users all seem to be flocking to Google, whose market share is on the uptick again.
Not that Google is the picture of perfection, but I think we can all agree that it would be a bad thing if Google's piece of the tech pie fell into Microsoft's hands.
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Here's the tl;dr friendly list:
1. Loading icon in the content window of a browser
2. Compatibility of file names with current and outmoded operating systems
3. Storing input/output in a shared file system
4. Simulating mouse inputs on a device without a mouse
5. A browser that recognizes background images and displays them after the text is loaded
6. Using handles to change the size of selected text
Perhaps more important than the public knowing about them is *Google* knowing about them. Hopefully these can be quickly struck down and Microsoft's racketeering of the Android world (where people actually buy the products that are being sold, unlike Vista Phone 7) will come to an end.
It makes me sick to know that a small portion of my phone's purchase price went to these criminals.
Fellow haters!
Today I came across the weirdest thing in MS Office ever. My girlfriend needs to grade the exams of her pupils, this involves lots of calculation. So I thought abusing the serial letter funtion of Word, combined with an Excel sheet would be a good idea. So I calculate and round the grades in Excel, two digits behind the dot are fine. This looks good in Excel, but totally foul in Word:
Excel=1,35 [with this formula used =ROUND((B28/100*$B29);2)]
Word=1,3500000000000001
It even miscalculated 5% of 13 to 0,650000000000001.
According to the internet, something like { MERGEFIELD SomeField \# #.##0,00 } could rectify the problem, but it doesn't do it in this case.
So this was a project which started to save time and ended up to be a complete waste of time. Ok, I could have guessed that from the beginning...
Has anyone of you ever seen this?
So Nov 20 2011 19:03:34 CET von the_mgt @ UncensoredAccording to the internet, something like { MERGEFIELD SomeField \# #.##0,00 } could rectify the problem, but it doesn't do it in this case.
Ok, this does work if you use the the implemented Edit Field -> Fieldfunction dialogue. Or whatever it is called in the original english version. It does not work if you press alt+F9 and edit the line directly, although it looks identical...
doesn't word load an embedded excel if you just cut'n'paste a table?
I didn't want to copy a whole table, I want the content of certain fields spread across a series of "letters" I want to print out. Every pupil gets a sheet handed out with his name, the group he was in and some info about the various subcategories he scored in:
Name: John Doe
Group: 1
Dancing on hot coals: 12 points
Juggling with chainsaws: 20 points
Drawing a straight line: 2 points
And the infos came from the excel sheet. I'll post screenshots when I am done.
I saw it written this way today, and it seems to make sense:
* Microsoft is the new IBM.
* Apple is the new Microsoft.
* Google is the new Apple.
hmm...
Sun Dec 11 2011 13:46:15 ESTfrom IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored* Apple is the new Microsoft.
Wasn't entirely sure where to post this, but the moral of the story is "Microsoft Sucks", so I guess this room is fine.
Last night, I embarked on a 4 hour journey into building my 5th from-scratch computer.
The 4 preceeding computers to this one had hardware problems from the get-go. Someone ordering the wrong part, something not fitting in the case, power supply problems, you know, the usual. This 5th one was no exception, but it went much better than the last 4.
Anyways, I take my time building this monster of a computer (DDR3, Intel i7, 1tb hdd, evga 1.5gb gfx, pro case, etc..) because there was about $2K worth of parts sitting on my floor, building this thing.
So, 3.5 hrs into the build, I get all of the parts in, double check the wiring, drink some coffee, go for a smoke, tripple check the wiring, zip-tie everything into it's right place, double check all of the hardware positions and connections, ... you know, the usual obsessive-complsive computer builder stuff.
Now, in my experience, the first time you boot up a brand-new built monster, it has problems. Something in the BIOS isn't set up completely right, some switches or jumpers were missed, missed a USB connection somewhere, or a network card is in wrong... little stuff. This time, I plugged it in, flipped the power switch on the PSU, and pressed the button and waited for the memory POST beep. waiting... watching the indicator lights on the motherboard... wating... (it felt like I was waiting for 5 minutes, when in reality I only waited 7 seconds).
BEEP
(then silence)
I realized at that moment, there were no problems with the build. Nothing went wrong at first start for the first time ever in my experience of building computers.
I hooked up a kb, mouse, and cheap monitor to it just to check the BIOS settings and make sure it's recognizing everything. It all checks out OK (except for the CPU temperature guage thermocouple, but that's easy to fix... connection problem [not my fault])
I asked my customer what OS they had in mind.
*facepalm* he pulls out a Windows 7 Home Premium x64 package from his bag.
Great, this beast of a machine that has 3x the computing power and capacity than my custom build, and he's going to ruin it with windows.
*deep breath*
I get the setup loaded, go through partitioning the hdd, get it installed and running, then it boots into windows. I look at the drives.
I had it partitioned as: d0-p0 (System Reserve), d0-p1 (OS - 250GB), d0-p2 (DATA - ~650GB)
The above partitioning is what I always do for a windows machine. I put Windows on the 250GB partition and instruct my customer to only save files, media, and documents on the bigger partition, and only ever use the smaller partition for the OS and programs. It's a safe-guard. If windows crashes, they don't lose all of their work, only the programs, which can be replaced, and their files are still sitting safely on the other partition, unharmed.
The bad thing is, it got them switched somehow. It installed Windows on the bigger partition after I specifically told it to install on the smaller one.
I fucking hate windows... it ruined a perfect build.
Eh, I still sometimes screw up the connectors or mis-set the BIOS. You're right though...white boxes have really gotten a lot more plug/play the last few years.
meanwhile Microsoft even gave up on some of their "we implement
another free standard" aproach for xml based vector formats (now they
use VRML like everone else..) & active X controls by dropping support
for them in IE10.
Microsoft is treading on shaky ground here. They know they have to free themselves of the Win32 shackles in order to successfully make the transition into the brave new world where lots of different devices are running software -- which is why they're pushing this whole Metro/WinRT thing now -- but on the other hand, the "long tail" of legacy Win32 applications is what holds their desktop monopoly together.
We are heading into the post-PC world and Microsoft wants to be a part of it, but they still garner the lion's share of their profits from desktop Windows/Office revenue.
ActiveX obviously had to get the axe, since it tied a bunch of legacy Win32 cruft to the browser.
They also had to reluctantly support HTML5 video, since it's in their best interest for Flash to die; we should all be very happy that Silverlight never caught on.
Wed Dec 14 2011 11:06:08 EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ UncensoredThey also had to reluctantly support HTML5 video, since it's in their best interest for Flash to die; we should all be very happy that Silverlight never caught on.
well, except for some indian portal.
but yes. fuck mono. fuck silver, moon and whateverlight. fuck flash.
And consider this:
Flash was the delivery vehicle for video in web browsers that became "the standard" at exactly the right time. They snuck video into a plugin that everyone was already using.
If there were no video in Flash, the current standard would be WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. Do you really think that Real would have been able to hold on to pluggable video when Microsoft was working so hard in the early 2000's to kill them off?
Now is the time to retire Flash, and hopefully all browser plugins, but the open Web owes a great deal to Flash for keeping things working in a cross-platform way. Thank you Macromedia (aka Adobe).
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One one hand, this is good because it will help complete the extermination of IE 6, which everyone wants to see go away. On the other hand, this is bad because Microsoft gets to say "other browsers do this so ours can too" and at the same time they'll be able to have all sorts of other undesirable "updates" riding in along with new browser code.
Sun Dec 11 2011 01:46:15 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
I saw it written this way today, and it seems to make sense:
* Microsoft is the new IBM.
* Apple is the new Microsoft.
* Google is the new Apple.
hmm...
I consider G¤¤g£€ the new Micro$oft. People used to complain that microsoft wanted to control the office products, the web browser and the dominate with the OS. Now Google wants to control the office products, the web browser and the OS. Oddly enough the people that hated microsoft for doing that embrace google for doing it.