"That site" has been the de-facto authority on debunking urban legends for many years. For better proof, simply copy and paste the quotation into Google and scan through the results. In fact, I'll make it easy.
If you now continue to spread your disinformation despite the overwhelming likelihood that you are wrong, then you are an enemy of truth.
By your logic, I could go around saying "George W. Bush molests children", and stand by it as long as no one could prove otherwise.
Facing an atrocious record on every single issue can make a debate seem daunting. I suspect that for the 2nd debate he had a little sumpn' sumpn' to take the edge off.
So let's just all give up and assume we'll be using Microsoft's offerings forever. After all, the situation is completely hopeless and there's nothing that can possibly ever be done about it, so why even try. Thank you for your strong leadership on this front, arhar.
It's an Excel problem, exacerbated by bad user habits. Anyway, Excel couldn't fix the problem, and OOo could, which was the point of the anecdote.
My own contribution: the other day, one of our account managers desparately needed to send a PDF to a client ASAP. While they were pondering the quickest way to buy a copy of Acrobat, I fired up OOo and solved their problem completely in 5 minutes.
I'd suggest that rather than adding in yet another additional funky feature that less than 1% of people will ever find/use, I'd ensure rock solid filters to import/export from MS Office.
Part of "rock solid" import/export filters is supporting every funky feature. When importing an Excel document that uses some marginal feature, the filter must be able to handle it somehow. This is part of why creation of the filters is difficult; there's a shitload of weird features that must be handled somehow.
That may have been a bad analogy, but I'm definitely going to have to work "like putting mayonnaise on crap" into a conversation now. And it will probably get me fired.
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You could say that about all software, or anything, really. Of course, you would be wrong.
If you believe the heart of America is altruism, I've got some ocean-front property in Arizona I'm gonna give to the poor.
The fact that the government hasn't said why is reason enough.
"No Child Left Behind" will save your job! Don't ask how, it just will!
And if you prefer to read that information in hard copy, you can alw . . . oh, fuck it.
Sure they do. It's the executives getting ready to retire in a few years that don't care about fucking it up for everyone else.
Short-term thinking is the new watchword in American business, dontcha know? Why build a business when you can take your cut now?
And it's really more like 2 hours in training. Actually, it's more like 2 hours of slightly-slower-than-normal work on the first day.
If you now continue to spread your disinformation despite the overwhelming likelihood that you are wrong, then you are an enemy of truth.
By your logic, I could go around saying "George W. Bush molests children", and stand by it as long as no one could prove otherwise.
Facing an atrocious record on every single issue can make a debate seem daunting. I suspect that for the 2nd debate he had a little sumpn' sumpn' to take the edge off.
John Kerry didn't say that.
The PDF exporter works perfectly in all cases where I've used it. One anecdote does not a broken piece of software make.
So let's just all give up and assume we'll be using Microsoft's offerings forever. After all, the situation is completely hopeless and there's nothing that can possibly ever be done about it, so why even try. Thank you for your strong leadership on this front, arhar.
My own contribution: the other day, one of our account managers desparately needed to send a PDF to a client ASAP. While they were pondering the quickest way to buy a copy of Acrobat, I fired up OOo and solved their problem completely in 5 minutes.
Part of "rock solid" import/export filters is supporting every funky feature. When importing an Excel document that uses some marginal feature, the filter must be able to handle it somehow. This is part of why creation of the filters is difficult; there's a shitload of weird features that must be handled somehow.
That's all true. You're more than welcome to write your own open-source one-click shopping system, to use in the privacy of your home.
Sorry d00d, but you're still wrong. It's illegal and arguably immoral, but it's still not the same thing as theft or stealing.
Except that you're not actually depriving the owner of anything. This is not a simple black & white issue; this is a new thing.
Large applications written in Java don't have bugs.
The margin on high-volume commercial software is more like 90%. This is why FOSS is perceived as such a threat.
um . . . what?
That may have been a bad analogy, but I'm definitely going to have to work "like putting mayonnaise on crap" into a conversation now. And it will probably get me fired.
Before, it was RAID 0. This was RAID 1.
I dare you to go ahead and bid 10,001.02.
It can still make what they're doing illegal to continue doing.
Ever looked inside a flashlight?