Sorry, wrong. Modern phones are pretty damn big, which is probably why smartwatches exist to begin with.
Really? Perhaps you need to get to the gym if simply carrying your phone is that laborious for you, modern phones are not that much of an effort to carry around that anybody would refer to them as having to "lug" them around, my suitcase or my workstation laptop maybe but not my phone.
- It must work stand-alone: if I'm lugging my phone around with me why would I want a miniscule third-rate smart-watch?
If you're "lugging" your phone around you probably need to update your phone.
As a smartphone accessory there's just not much point, except maybe to check who's calling/texting you without pulling out your phone.
or calendar notifications, reminders, weather forecast, transport notifications, etc... Personally I don't find my phone as cumbersome to carry around as you do so I don't mind just pulling out my phone to look at the lock screen to see those things but I'm sure some people would see value in having that information on their wrist even if it does provide questionable benefit.
People don't need paper, so programs designed to format stuff for A4 or Letter are disappearing.
Since when? I'm not sure what programs you are referring to that are designed to format for A4/Letter that are disappearing either. Even if that were true, you still need to be able to format your documents for some target media, it wouldn't remove that requirement.
It's also not free, for non-commercial use or otherwise. It's cheaper than the other paid editions, especially since it allows installation on multiple machines with a single license, but it does still cost money.
The thing I like is that the ribbons are categorized and then the buttons in the ribbons are grouped (and the group is labelled), I find that makes it a LOT more useful than toolbars.
I find it better than the mess of menus and toolbars where some functions are in one, some functions are in the other and some functions are in both. Even on the Mac version of office the ribbons work really well. Toolbars are horrible things, just a non-contextual mess of little icons.
I would have thought "free for non-commercial use" would have worked well enough
So you want to rely on a DRM system which decides if you are using it for commercial purposes? Or just the honesty of users?
Neither sound like a good options when dealing with a product that is known for making good sums of money.
It's already been done for years, this isn't a foreign concept, have you not seen Office Home and Student for example? Not sure why you don't think it's a good option given it's been used for so long and continues to be used today.
Forgot to mention even a flat fee for a perpetual non-commercial Home & Student license would probably work.
I will download them for sure, but it really puts me off having to use a subscription to use them for editing.
I agree, I would have thought "free for non-commercial use" would have worked well enough. Corporates are the ones driving Office revenue anyway, end users are much more likely to go with iWork or Google Docs than paying for Office.
It's because Steve Ballmer refused to acknowledge iOS's existence. Now that a new guy is in charge, things are happening again.
Yeah I'm sure they whipped up the whole office suite for iOS in the last few weeks since Ballmer left.
This would certainly enable Office devotees to invest in iPads (or do more with existing iPads) but I don't see it converting many existing Google Docs users or those who are already ensconced in the iWork suite...though that's probably not the point.
What you really need is a US Proxying service that proxies specific URLs.
You can get Netflix with a DNS Proxy service; that uses DNS to selectively proxy certain URLs to defeat the Geoblocking, but NOT proxy the content connections for Netflix.
Yes that's what I mean, while you could do it through a proxy the actual content is too large and that would be too costly so using one of the DNS services like proxyDNS is the way to go.
That and once they decided to monetize our search results and share it with Amazon... well, I'll never have an Ubuntu installation again.
How is it different from Google?
My perception of Canonical is now "greedy assholes who don't care about user's privacy"
But it's open source, it's free software. If there's one little element there that you don't like then just turn it off, change it. That's the whole point of free software!
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Sorry, wrong. Modern phones are pretty damn big, which is probably why smartwatches exist to begin with.
Really? Perhaps you need to get to the gym if simply carrying your phone is that laborious for you, modern phones are not that much of an effort to carry around that anybody would refer to them as having to "lug" them around, my suitcase or my workstation laptop maybe but not my phone.
If you need Outlook then the iOS mail client won't suffice for you anyway. What precisely do you think businesses need Outlook for?
- It must work stand-alone: if I'm lugging my phone around with me why would I want a miniscule third-rate smart-watch?
If you're "lugging" your phone around you probably need to update your phone.
As a smartphone accessory there's just not much point, except maybe to check who's calling/texting you without pulling out your phone.
or calendar notifications, reminders, weather forecast, transport notifications, etc... Personally I don't find my phone as cumbersome to carry around as you do so I don't mind just pulling out my phone to look at the lock screen to see those things but I'm sure some people would see value in having that information on their wrist even if it does provide questionable benefit.
Really? :) now equals "evil smiley"?
Well what is an "evil" smile? It's a smile in an evil context.
Why would it matter where it came from? The only thing that matters is who it belongs to, which is obviously the account holder.
Which is precisely why I said the Home and Student type of licensing is a perfect match.
Because if he wants it then sitting around waiting for it less productive than contributing to it...duh.
People don't need paper, so programs designed to format stuff for A4 or Letter are disappearing.
Since when? I'm not sure what programs you are referring to that are designed to format for A4/Letter that are disappearing either. Even if that were true, you still need to be able to format your documents for some target media, it wouldn't remove that requirement.
It's also not free, for non-commercial use or otherwise. It's cheaper than the other paid editions, especially since it allows installation on multiple machines with a single license, but it does still cost money.
It doesn't have to be free, I even followed that up with even a flat fee for a perpetual non-commercial Home & Student license would probably work.
The thing I like is that the ribbons are categorized and then the buttons in the ribbons are grouped (and the group is labelled), I find that makes it a LOT more useful than toolbars.
And the iOS version doesn't have Outlook either, so the Home and Student way would work equally well there.
Still waiting for Libreoffice for Android (which would be of use to me) and Ipad (which I guess other people would use).
Rather than waiting you should help it along by contributing.
Nobody needs office suites anymore.
What do you mean "anymore"? What did they used to need them for that they suddenly don't now? What changed?
I find it better than the mess of menus and toolbars where some functions are in one, some functions are in the other and some functions are in both. Even on the Mac version of office the ribbons work really well. Toolbars are horrible things, just a non-contextual mess of little icons.
Wrong, I specifically said Home and Student, which does not have the requirement you stipulate.
So you want to rely on a DRM system which decides if you are using it for commercial purposes? Or just the honesty of users?
Neither sound like a good options when dealing with a product that is known for making good sums of money.
It's already been done for years, this isn't a foreign concept, have you not seen Office Home and Student for example? Not sure why you don't think it's a good option given it's been used for so long and continues to be used today.
Forgot to mention even a flat fee for a perpetual non-commercial Home & Student license would probably work.
I will download them for sure, but it really puts me off having to use a subscription to use them for editing.
I agree, I would have thought "free for non-commercial use" would have worked well enough. Corporates are the ones driving Office revenue anyway, end users are much more likely to go with iWork or Google Docs than paying for Office.
It's because Steve Ballmer refused to acknowledge iOS's existence. Now that a new guy is in charge, things are happening again.
Yeah I'm sure they whipped up the whole office suite for iOS in the last few weeks since Ballmer left.
This would certainly enable Office devotees to invest in iPads (or do more with existing iPads) but I don't see it converting many existing Google Docs users or those who are already ensconced in the iWork suite...though that's probably not the point.
What you really need is a US Proxying service that proxies specific URLs.
You can get Netflix with a DNS Proxy service; that uses DNS to selectively proxy certain URLs to defeat the Geoblocking, but NOT proxy the content connections for Netflix.
Yes that's what I mean, while you could do it through a proxy the actual content is too large and that would be too costly so using one of the DNS services like proxyDNS is the way to go.
I live in NZ.
We WISH we had netflix.
Use a US DNS service (not a proxy), I live in Australia and that's how I get Hulu even though it technically isn't available here.
Android carries with it expensive patents, I think this is why chrome os exists.
Given the cost of a Windows license I hardly think the patent cost of Android is prohibitive.
Availability of alternative shells doesn't suddenly convert back all Metro applications into native Windows applications.
Of course not, it's a shell. What metro applications do you love so much that you need converted to Windows applications?
All they do is replace/bring back the start menu, so you see less of the Metro.
Litestep?
Yeah it's not like alternative shells for Windows have been around for decades...oh wait
That and once they decided to monetize our search results and share it with Amazon ... well, I'll never have an Ubuntu installation again.
How is it different from Google?
My perception of Canonical is now "greedy assholes who don't care about user's privacy"
But it's open source, it's free software. If there's one little element there that you don't like then just turn it off, change it. That's the whole point of free software!
I've noticed a number of Mac computers running Windows 7 lately. It's kind of disturbing.....like seeing a Chevy engine in a Ford Mustang. Just wrong.
Why? The hardware is good and has the ability to dual boot so that you can have all of your OS X and Windows applications on the same machine.