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Ummmm. Are they planning to "abandon" Skype.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: takes 15 minutes to hook Windows up to the projector
Gimme the model - I will buy any day a projector can be connected from Windows under 30 minutes and 120 curses...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The best meeting is not to have a meeting at all. That requires no technology.
Conversely, I have only once encountered a company that actually has video conferencing services and decent hardware to capture voice. Even the satellite manufacturer company that I've worked for, whose slogan is "connecting people all over the world" (or something like that), is in the stone ages when it comes to remote work and video conferencing.
Marc
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On Tuesday, Amazon began announcing settlement payments to customers who bought e-books between April 2010 and May 2012. According to my spam folder, I'm a millionaire many times over!
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The thing about amazon credit is that you have to print it out before you want wipe your backside with it.
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A recent Canonical announcement about Linux packaging shows how the press gives a pass to open source proclamations, no matter how unbelievable I believe it
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The press also believe that windows 10 is not a virus  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Oh lovely.
Ars Technica[^] - one of my favorite sources for no BS tech reporting - pointed out that flatpack is only one of two new packaging tools and predicted a rerun of rpm vs deb; but missed the gross overstatement of support and attempted vendor lockin that canonical was trying for. One of their commentators managed to capture the ultimate issue far better than I could:
Danrarb commented:
Linux choice. The cause of and solution to all of its problems.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A new compiler for analog computers has been developed, a program that translates between high-level instructions written in a language intelligible to humans and the low-level specifications of circuit connections in an analog computer. The work could help pave the way to highly efficient, highly accurate analog simulations of entire organs. For when 1s and 0s just aren't enough
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Quote: Quote: For when 1s and 0s just aren't enough
So it is, even you have them in a Queue of let's say 100 bits... it is far away from being real analog 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I invite any and all numbered members to come up with a joke about analog computing. I blanked, sorry. 
TTFN - Kent
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Real / analog noise is not quantifiable. Sorry
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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What did the Angle say to the Arc? He's off on a Tangent again!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Over the past year, Microsoft has seen customers use Linux in a third of its Azure virtual machines, up from 25 percent. Proof "Linux is a cancer": it's spreading!
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According to new research from VisionMobile, analyzing survey data from over 4,400 IoT developers, there are eight segments of IoT developers, and just 32% of these developers are professionally involved in IoT projects, compared to 50 to 70% in other markets. What this means, in practice, is that 63% of IoT developers are just in it for fun and learning, and don’t have any interest in making you money. They just like playing with Things
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Of course. What could be more fun then to install a bunch of sensors to aquarium, connect it all to feeder, lights, heater, and filter and let the neural network handle it. Unless you are a fish who wants to live, of course.
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Most developers aren't in it for the money
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Researchers have found that software piracy is directly linked to intelligence on a national scale. This study brought to you by The Association to Try Stopping Piracy Through Compliments (TATSPTC)
Next study: software pirates smell bad, get fewer dates.
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Potential confusion of correlation with causation here ?
Do countries with "high intelligence" (whatever that means) also happen to have more highly evolved political/legal structures which enforce anti-piracy laws down on the "mean streets" ?
What about China ? Software piracy rampant, lots of very intelligent people. The rest of S.E. Asia: oh yeah, laws on the books, yearly ceremonies of token busts of pirates and destruction of confiscated goods ... on-the-ground reality: you can buy a cracked version of anything you want at any time. Russia: don't ask.
"Intellectual property" is a culture-bound concept, and for many countries "digital intellectual property" is an undefined twilight-zone: that is not to say that people dealing in copied software are not aware they are "taking something that other people pay for."
Singapore: there's the good counter-example for Asia, and you can thank, or blame, your choice of Confucianism and/or Lee Kuan Yew, and British colonialism, for that.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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It could also be that high iq countries got higher wages which makes people more inclined to buy original software.
But in general I think you are right. A country with controls and enforcement will have companies that make sure they got the correct licenses and software to avoid legal trouble.
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Member 11683251 wrote: A country with controls and enforcement will have companies that make sure they got the correct licenses
Only for as far as required.
..and yes, a country that can spend more will also be more inclined to spend on licenses 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm curious how much of the correlation goes away after adjusting for affluence. (Malnutrition and lack of medical care are correlated with reduced IQs.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Forget piracy. Look at the IQ scale and which countries are being considered stupid.
This sort of propaganda is disgusting.
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Most of Android's problems stem from the fact that it is an open source operating system. They're forked?
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Think most of the problems described in that article are caused by OEMs wanting to spend minimal amount of time/money pushing updates yet they insist on their bloatware layers being added. In another words, this is a problem caused by OEMs and not necessarily an "Android" problem.
As to taking Android and making it proprietary, not sure those big companies relying on it would sit back and let that happen. It's too easy to fork an open-source project and the large companies that depend on it have the resources to continue on with or without Google.
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