Maemo 5. I like that it's not tied to some tech giant, and that it comes with a console where you can simply do "apt-get install".
Readit NewsI second this. Any suggestions appreciated.
I suggest http://www.copernico.net/ ,who are in Spain. I've no affiliation, other than being a customer; in my experience, the service is excellent, the boss, Miguel Angel, is very easy to reach, and I've come to know him as an independent spirit, who does not like governmental intervention at all.
dhs commented on Retailers Are Losing the Software Talent Wars businessweek.com/magazine... · Posted by u/jongraehl
Maybe the limiting factor is the ability to integrate with backend inventory, etc. I suspect there is no lightweight (read: inexpensive developer) way to do this.
(Which makes me wonder if there is a Wordpress for ERP.)
The other way to look at it is that for the 2-3 top players in a sector, there can never be off-the-shelf. WalMart’s differentiation is incredible supply chain, which they had to invent. Being a big guy means you are doing something different, almost by definition.
There are several candidates for "Wordpress for ERP"; try OpenERP, Openbravo, and Compiere.
dhs commented on What future space combat would really look like forums.spacebattles.com/s... · Posted by u/dikarel
This essay isn't all that realistic. I found this one [1] to have a far more realistic view of what space war would look like.
Tl;dr: it's much cheaper and much more effective to lob comets at your enemy's homeworld than it is to fight with ships.
The "bugs" in Paul Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers" make ample use of this idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7-PQIuWwLo
dhs commented on Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice" joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/... · Posted by u/Tsiolkovsky
You know, I don't get that.
I can see how the feature set of OpenOffice or LibreOffice would be sufficient for just about anyone. However, I strongly feel that both Microsoft Office and Apple iWork do offer some real benefits in terms of usability over (Libre|Open)Office.
Seriously, I tried this for real: My mom got a new computer. It was a Mac. We installed OpenOffice, then NeoOffice, then LibreOffice for her. Over the course of several months she never got the hang of it. She was always asking how to do stuff and could never figure out how to do simple things.
Then we installed iWork and she got along fine. There is this inspector thing, and if you want to do something, you will probably find it in there. She was happy with that and even discovered some features on her own.
Later we installed Microsoft Office for Mac for her (for *.doc compatibility reasons). Again, she got along fine. There is that ribbon/palette thing, and if you want to do something, you will probably find it in there. She was happy with that and even discovered some features on her own.
I mean, I very much hope that a wider adoption of (Open|Libre)Office with European Officials would make the European Union invest some money in porting (Open|Libre)Office into the 21 century. But until they do, I can not recommend it to anyone with a straight face.
Let me offer a counterpoint: I started out with Word 3.0 for DOS, in 1987. From there, I went through lots of office software for PC, Mac, and Atari. A good ten years ago, I installed OpenOffice, which I have been using ever since. I never had any .doc compatibility problems.
Today, I'm working for a small retail company in Madrid, Spain: Ten people, running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. All of us are using OpenOffice. It already was that way when I came here a year ago. Until now, I heard nobody even mentioning our office software. And these people are not "computer geeks" by any measure; we sell clothes.
I guess it is the reliance on Excel macros, which are not compatible with OpenOffice Calc, that prevents lots of companies from switching. If you don't depend on any of those, I honestly see no advantages in using MS Office.
dhs commented on The Cyber Security Industrial Complex technologyreview.com/comp... · Posted by u/vdondeti
I work for a US defense contractor. I make deep packet inspection tools that live as a bump in the wire. On the unclassified side of things we can modify google earth map tiles, we record or modify every twitter and Facebook post you make. We can modify every ip address in every packet at line rate. We can watermark every image you look at on the web. And that's not even the cool stuff
What motivates you, at a personal level, to do this kind of work?
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I would equate democracy to a ship where the captaincy is decided by whomever promises the most goodies out of the ship's rations.
Probably a pirate ship, then:
The captain and quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code
I understand that in developing nations like Ethiopia or India this might be significant but in Spain?