They're continuing to rely on old technology that's past it's time - like Office.
Please tell us what new technology replaces a spreadsheet program, a word processor, a presentation tool, and a personal/workgroup relational database.
I switch to InoReader after the Old Reader told me they were dumping me and everyone who signed up after the Google Reader announcement. And that was after a two day outage and several other small outages. They had a prime start-up opportunity and they blew it when they lost their cool and alienated a lot of users.
There's a lot of great programming on PBS. I've heard and seen more great programming than crap programming. The production values are often basic, because they don't sensationalize like the cable networks and they don't have an audience that wants to be outraged like the majority of talk radio AM stations.
Devaluing your user base (or at least making it appear that way to your users) is not decent for business or your reputation.
I agree. They basically had success and lost their cool. They had a prime start-up opportunity thrown in their laps and they blew it. The various small technical issues every few days and the big outage didn't blow it, their big red message at the top of the screen that your account is going to get nuked blew it.
Thanks for the tip about Inoreader. I just switched. I was thinking of migrating to Feedly, but Inoreader looks much better. I won't go back to The Old Reader even if they end up making a go of it.
Do you want millions of Texans telling you how to live , through federal legislation, or do you want your state's citizens to decide how you do things there in Connecticut, and we can do it our way in Texas?
It depends. People in every state likely have the same needs and desires when it comes to things like education, healthcare, and abortion, or freedoms like who they can marry. It's silly to have to drive across a state line to address these needs or desires. If y'all want to make the steer the state animal or drive 85 on your roads, have at it. States' rights are a vestige of 18th century America, in my opinion, and today are used more for political purposes than ensuring freedom and keeping the Union viable.
Get a grip, dude. You're living in an alternate reality where everyone that doesn't agree with you must be looking to install a Communist dictatorship, and you need psychiatric help.
There's no battle going on. Google Docs is nowhere near Microsoft Office. If there is a battle, it's only on the Google side.
That sums up the competition between Google Docs and Microsoft Office quite well. The problem with Google Docs is it was designed by people at Google who never really used spreadsheets and documents in a business environment outside of Google. They tried to compete with Microsoft Office with a product targeted at people who don't use MS Office in the first place.
Google's finally getting around to deploying in a second city. At this rate ISPs should start sweating it in 2030, assuming Google doesn't lose interest in the product and discontinue it before then.
You do realize that Jobs was the one who said "people don't know what they want"? Apple is the #1 perpetrator of dictating to users what they "should" want.
So if Baconicity holds true in all of life instead of just in the film industry graph, then any individual can be linked to a criminal within less than six steps. Oh-my-godzies, we're all linked to criminals!! We all have gang ties!! We're all affiliated with Terrorists!! That linkage list shows it!! It must be true!!! Lock us all up, for our own goods!
Sure, everyone can be linked to some douchebag/terrorist/asshole in six degrees, but if you're linked to a douchebag/terrorist/asshole in one or two degrees, you're probably a douchebag/terrorist/asshole.
I have to agree. When I was maintaining servers, a power supply failure was a great outage to have, laughable in fact. Stress was losing a disk array on a box hosting 5,000 customers or an Exchange server that ran the company pissing all over itself.
If all you wanted in the first place was an Internet-dependent dumb terminal, errrr "cloud device", it already made sense. If you want more than that, it will never make sense for that price. Sounds like Google fan boys are suffering from the same madness they claim Apple fan boys have.
I never watch CNN so you might be right but judging by their website they are just as biased towards the liberal causes as Fox is towards conservative. I bet you never watch Fox either and, like most liberals, you probably imagine it to be a lot worse than it is.
Or he's seen Fox and Friends and knows it's quite worse than CNN, in both bias and quality.
It depends on how much you buy from them. If 99.99% of their revenue comes from customers using MS Office, I doubt they're going to adapt to work with your TeX document.
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Show me a three year old PC that holds the same percent value that a three year old Mac does, or a three year old smartphone versus an iPhone.
They're continuing to rely on old technology that's past it's time - like Office.
Please tell us what new technology replaces a spreadsheet program, a word processor, a presentation tool, and a personal/workgroup relational database.
I switch to InoReader after the Old Reader told me they were dumping me and everyone who signed up after the Google Reader announcement. And that was after a two day outage and several other small outages. They had a prime start-up opportunity and they blew it when they lost their cool and alienated a lot of users.
There's a lot of great programming on PBS. I've heard and seen more great programming than crap programming. The production values are often basic, because they don't sensationalize like the cable networks and they don't have an audience that wants to be outraged like the majority of talk radio AM stations.
Devaluing your user base (or at least making it appear that way to your users) is not decent for business or your reputation.
I agree. They basically had success and lost their cool. They had a prime start-up opportunity thrown in their laps and they blew it. The various small technical issues every few days and the big outage didn't blow it, their big red message at the top of the screen that your account is going to get nuked blew it.
Thanks for the tip about Inoreader. I just switched. I was thinking of migrating to Feedly, but Inoreader looks much better. I won't go back to The Old Reader even if they end up making a go of it.
For those that use Oracle — is it worth the money?
Absolutely not.
What's keeping you from switching?"
Applications that require Oracle.
Not sure where the uncertainty is. Says right there - January 1, 2015.
"Regulatory uncertainty" are right wing code words for "non-Republican President and non-Republican majority House and Senate".
Do you want millions of Texans telling you how to live , through federal legislation, or do you want your state's citizens to decide how you do things there in Connecticut, and we can do it our way in Texas?
It depends. People in every state likely have the same needs and desires when it comes to things like education, healthcare, and abortion, or freedoms like who they can marry. It's silly to have to drive across a state line to address these needs or desires. If y'all want to make the steer the state animal or drive 85 on your roads, have at it. States' rights are a vestige of 18th century America, in my opinion, and today are used more for political purposes than ensuring freedom and keeping the Union viable.
Get a grip, dude. You're living in an alternate reality where everyone that doesn't agree with you must be looking to install a Communist dictatorship, and you need psychiatric help.
That's Fox News!
All the hate is because it is not made by Apple. If it was iGlass, the love-in would be tremendous
Apparently you're not on Google+, the big love-in for anything Google, and a land where anything Apple sucks.
There's no battle going on. Google Docs is nowhere near Microsoft Office. If there is a battle, it's only on the Google side.
That sums up the competition between Google Docs and Microsoft Office quite well. The problem with Google Docs is it was designed by people at Google who never really used spreadsheets and documents in a business environment outside of Google. They tried to compete with Microsoft Office with a product targeted at people who don't use MS Office in the first place.
$50K will make the project be completed about four minutes earlier than projected.
Your right.
> an Apple product will change the face of this market
An Android product would make more of a difference, what with the current approx 2:1 ratio in favour of Android usage on smartphones.
I'd say changing one-third of a 10 gazillion smartphone market is pretty significant.
Google's finally getting around to deploying in a second city. At this rate ISPs should start sweating it in 2030, assuming Google doesn't lose interest in the product and discontinue it before then.
You do realize that Jobs was the one who said "people don't know what they want"? Apple is the #1 perpetrator of dictating to users what they "should" want.
So was Henry Ford.
Don't forget to count Cameras and TVs.
And OS/2 beats them all if you count ATMs!
Right, as long as all I want to do is browse the web and not ever get any OS updates again.
So if Baconicity holds true in all of life instead of just in the film industry graph, then any individual can be linked to a criminal within less than six steps. Oh-my-godzies, we're all linked to criminals!! We all have gang ties!! We're all affiliated with Terrorists!! That linkage list shows it!! It must be true!!! Lock us all up, for our own goods!
Sure, everyone can be linked to some douchebag/terrorist/asshole in six degrees, but if you're linked to a douchebag/terrorist/asshole in one or two degrees, you're probably a douchebag/terrorist/asshole.
Google will drop support for Chromebooks when the next shiny thing comes along and people figure out this is a modern day Wyse terminal.
I have to agree. When I was maintaining servers, a power supply failure was a great outage to have, laughable in fact. Stress was losing a disk array on a box hosting 5,000 customers or an Exchange server that ran the company pissing all over itself.
You can't magically change your behavior and habits with a piece of software.
If all you wanted in the first place was an Internet-dependent dumb terminal, errrr "cloud device", it already made sense. If you want more than that, it will never make sense for that price. Sounds like Google fan boys are suffering from the same madness they claim Apple fan boys have.
I never watch CNN so you might be right but judging by their website they are just as biased towards the liberal causes as Fox is towards conservative. I bet you never watch Fox either and, like most liberals, you probably imagine it to be a lot worse than it is.
Or he's seen Fox and Friends and knows it's quite worse than CNN, in both bias and quality.
It depends on how much you buy from them. If 99.99% of their revenue comes from customers using MS Office, I doubt they're going to adapt to work with your TeX document.