Empowered Tech
Let us showcase technology that matters – the machines, processes, and breakthroughs that propel humanity forward! Hopefully you’ll encounter something familiar, something that’s already helping you.
The Open Office Document
The concept of an open office is familiar to everyone. You notice when you look around that people’s desks are unlocked and cabinets are placed conveniently for everyone's use. Our desks, chairs, tables, and walls are constructed so we can work communally. When we share information, we are productive and can act in uniform way. Where we encounter the closed office, isolated projects move in random and even conflicting directions.
The software we use can be much the same way. Vendors wanting to secure market share will market compatibility, but handicap it in subtle ways. Simply taking documents and sharing them between computers can be a struggle. Ask yourself; is it reasonable that in today’s computer age we should still have problems simply sharing documents?
We say it's most definitely not reasonable nor appropriate!
Imagine computers in the 80's and recall how far we have come. You will realize how amazing it is that most workers still don’t do their work in a universal document format.
An Open Office does work in a Universal format called the "Open Document Format"[ODF]. This ISO standard ensure compatibility with our documents not only amongst ourselves today but also for computers and software we might use in the future.
Does your software use [ODF]? These products do.
Open Office
Built by Sun Microsoft with work contributions from companies around the world, Open Office is a Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint replacement. Offices that make heavy use of Word and Excel will see immediately that Open Office is a complete replacement. This can save $200 or more per computer. Add it up, how many computers can you count in your office right now?
ScreenSaver Power
For uncounted hours billions of people leave their computers and go off to lunch, home, or meetings. Giving little thought to the unharnessed power your screensaver represents. You could let your computer draw meaningless 3-D cubes and lifelike fish, but why do that when it can cure cancer in it's spare time? Fight drought and find food for the poor and heal the sick using the Berkley Open Infrastructure Client [BOINC].
You may be wondering? What? How this works is when your computer's screen saver comes on instead drawing pictures it downloads a small piece of a super computer sized job. It processes that workload when it could be drawing screensaver fish, when it's done it submit the calculations back to the main grid. The cumulative effect of millions of computers doing this horse power equal to the largest super computers on the planet.
Jobs include scientifically comparing different rice genetics and extrapolating which rices would grow best in what soil conditions. It may then map those rices to the locations of soil samples taken from all around famine plagued areas of the world. Normally such a computer task could take millions of unhad dollars and years of expensive super computer time. By breaking the job down into piecemeal sized chunk and handing those jobs to millions of donated computer, during every lunch hour each one of you can contribute a small amount to feeding the poor or curing the sick.
Contact our office and our techs would be happy to setup your computer remotely. We believe in this cause enough to donate our time helping to connect as many people as possible to this project.
