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20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death
Ars writer Jeremy Reimer takes a stroll down memory lane, recalling over 20 years of (almost) constant Microsoft Word use and why, with current and emerging tech trends, he thinks his relationship with the program may be at an end. "So why don't I need Word any more? To figure this out, I tried to go back to basics and think about what Word was originally designed to do. In the early days, Word's primary purpose was to ready a document so that you could print it out. As a student I needed to print out essays so I could hand them to my instructor. In the office I needed to print out reports so that I could hand them to my supervisor. The end goal was always the same: I printed out something to give to someone more important than me, who would evaluate it and, if I was lucky, give it back to me at some indeterminate time in the future. One didn't question this; it was just the way the world worked. Somewhere along the way, we stopped printing things out quite so much. Maybe it was the rise of office networking. Maybe it was when the printer companies kept raising the price of ink to ridiculous levels. Maybe it was when we realized we couldn't print out the whole Internet. Despite the fact that fewer things were being printed, we kept on using Word to create our documents."
Huh?
i don't think he is singling you out for not being part of the group ... i think you've misunderstood
/. moderators suck
/. posters don't actually RTFA, well ... i believe the same goes for the moderators
/. daily because certain moderators do a terrible job at their job
i believe what andrewneo is simply implying is that the
i'm sure you've come to learn that
crap like this gets to the front page of
Well done. Good to see a 6-digit ID get that joke right.
Did I? I really have no idea if you're joking or not as I've been busting my ass in IT since I was 18 (am 31 now) and I didn't have the time to spend playing on /. until about 6 months or so ago. So yeah I am sort of new here but that doesn't mean I don't have my very own nerd card and know some shit.
It is interesting that everyone has an ID based on how long they have had an account. There is no way of ever changing that number and it can always be used to mock others based on nothing more than I was here wasting time before you where. You have a pretty low ID so I guess that makes you a middle class /.'er and since mine is so high I'm in the peasant class.
This is just one more thing that is 'OK' here but in the rest of the world /.er's rail against it. The mirror is best left covered I suppose less we realize that we are often times no better than those we mock...
That's Vedic Sanskrit, as opposed to Epic and Classical Sanskrit, or you can be really obscure and refer to Old Indo-Aryan. No one talks about "Ancient Sanskrit" the way you would "Ancient Greek."
If you do find a copy of Word that does Devanagari easily, with all the old ligatures and such, I'll gladly buy it from you.
This bit of trivia brought to you by your Friendly Neighborhood Philologist.