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The Cloud Ate My Homework
theodp writes "Over at CNET, James Urquhart sings the praises of cloud computing, encouraging folks to 'really listen to what is being said, understand how the cloud is being used, and seriously evaluate how this disruptive model will change your projects, your organization, and even your career.' Fair enough. Over at the Google Docs Help Forum, some perplexed cloud computing users spent the month of November unsuccessfully trying to figure out why they've been zinged for inappropriate content. Among the items deemed inappropriate and unshareable include notes on Henry David Thoreau ('the published version of this item cannot be shared until a Google review finds that the content is appropriate'), homework assignments, high school yearbook plans, wishlists, documents containing botanical names for plants, a list of websites for an ecommerce class, and a list of companies that rent motorcycles in Canada. When it comes to support in the cloud, it kind of looks like you might get what you pay for."
Actually, that's not "good enough" because it does not protect your data from fire or theft damage. Clearly, you are not in IT.
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Because OO.o looks like shit when opened in MS Office, which is what a good 95%+ businesses are using? Sorry, wish it wasn't true, and for just writing something simple you are gonna pass around to a couple of buds, hey OO.o works like a charm. Home users? Again if they are just doing personal stuff again OO.o is $0.00 and works just fine.
But I have seen way too many times where something that looks just fine in OO.o looks like word salad in Ms Office. While it is true that you can get the same effect going the other way, you don't really see many businesses using OO.o. So for anything I would be sending professionally it would be MS Office. Sorry but HR people don't listen to FOSS speeches, they just file 13 your "broken" doc and go on to the next guy. And yes I know about PDF, but most companies will NOT accept PDF. It is .doc or nothing, even though .doc is probably the worst format for static files like resumes there is.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.