As a professional Office Automation Analyst, I can vouch for MS Office products not being 100% backward compatible, but whats worse, they are not 100% forward compatible either.
Case in point: I have several 1000's word 200o doc's with tables and indexes. Nothing spectacular. Yet, Office 2003 majorly screws with tabel alignment, and indexes are corrupt, and need to be set again.
Do I need to continue on MS Visio and MS Project? Same stuff. Most works, but often it also does not.
I have people saving thing with Project 2000 in Project 97 format, otherwise resources would dissapear and be un-editable in Project 2003.
MS is doing one, and only one thing: They are holding all our doc's hostage, and most of there profit is due to it, so they will stick to it no matter what.
Humans are part of Nature, and thus their little toys too. What, in the submitters mind, makes him belief, thing Humans do, are sometimes NOT "natural"?
I really wonder, since the meaning of Nature seems to recently be something like : everything except the things that -I- particulary do not like about Humans actions.
Can you PLEASE go work in a patent office and consider this here patent for finding all American Presidents in a text and highly innovatively italize it?
to -change- your incomprehensible spelling and impossible grammer rules? The Queens English, and to lesser extend American English, is a stagnating monstrous multi-headed beast which is pronounced radically different than the miriads of spelling possibilities imply. No wonder English speaking countries have staggering heights of dislexia. Sjees, even Sheakespeare spelled his name wrong. These misspellers? They are modernizers! Listen to them! He, Im Dutch. I can say things like this.
You forget a crucial thing: the IRA is just not a political/terrorist org anymore.
It has long time descended into a full swing criminal org.
You are not -seriously- thinking the IRA gves a flying fuck about Ireland anymore do ya? Its all bout the dope trade, the moneys and the missing kneecaps nowadays.
"they are still happy to purchase them from people they know at the office/pub/school"
I know about warez. I know about usenet. I actively have traded. (as in dl/ul, no money) I also work, for +15 years in IT.
Whilst it no doubt has happened, most people do NOT pay for warez traded at offices or schools. People share, and swap.
95% is like that. At least in "Going Dutch" The Netherlands it is not done to ask money for a cd trade. The "commercial" pressed warez cd's, are very uncommon.
You pretend the new constitution would somehow fix this problem. It would not. It would ingrave the current undemocratic process, whilst giving the parlement very very little more power. Zero power is bad. Zero power plus infinitely small power is STLL no power for EU parlement. All this hot air in exchange for a lot LESS power for the NATIONAL governements. You know, those bodies of power people know about and have some interest in. One good thing with the referenda thou; a lot more people are actually paying attention to EU politics.
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funding, and they STILL cant find a decent web designer?
Yeah, sounds like FEMA alright.
perhaps they should outsource to India, not for the cheap labor, mind you, but for the superior educations.
As a professional Office Automation Analyst, I can vouch for MS Office products not being 100% backward compatible, but whats worse, they are not 100% forward compatible either.
Case in point: I have several 1000's word 200o doc's with tables and indexes. Nothing spectacular. Yet, Office 2003 majorly screws with tabel alignment, and indexes are corrupt, and need to be set again.
Do I need to continue on MS Visio and MS Project? Same stuff. Most works, but often it also does not.
I have people saving thing with Project 2000 in Project 97 format, otherwise resources would dissapear and be un-editable in Project 2003.
MS is doing one, and only one thing: They are holding all our doc's hostage, and most of there profit is due to it, so they will stick to it no matter what.
That IS an unreasonable stipulation.
When trains arrived, horse and carriages simply earned LESS. Tough.
Lions do NOT eat people. Except when the lion is close to starving, or if they find an already dead carcass.
Now -tigers- OTOH... those would be fun.
Lets talk a Small Business Solution.
Run one or a couple of Windows Terminal Servers and a Debian/Samba Domain Controller plus mail and whatever else you need on the debian box.
Thats it. Customers hug me.
Humans are part of Nature, and thus their little toys too.
What, in the submitters mind, makes him belief, thing Humans do, are sometimes NOT "natural"?
I really wonder, since the meaning of Nature seems to recently be something like : everything except the things that -I- particulary do not like about Humans actions.
You dont know?!?
Can you PLEASE go work in a patent office and consider this here patent for finding all American Presidents in a text and highly innovatively italize it?
Always those damn Monegasques!
Nice one. A cupcake.
Ever seen "The Mummie", for bad horror comedies a classic, I recommend it.
Remember the greedy guide?
Lets just lug ONE more golden statue outta this collapsing, cursed grave, im ALMOST sure I can make it... thought the not so symphatatic guy.
Do I need to paint his faith?
Mr. Bush might live high and mighty on the biggest hill, but -I- live in The Netherlands.
Wholly Dutch. Your Scottisch cheapness is naive filantropy compared to ours ;-)
Howmany tongue's does it emulate?
In The Netherlands, you can get a fine for leaving your bike unattended and unlocked in a public space.
Tha Fat lady sang, digested and had a stool.
The whole directive is outta the window. The only possible new patent law has to be drafted, discussed and re-introduced -from scratch-.
Ok I wont mod you ;-)
replace "purpose" with "usage" and you wont BE a troll! (or flamebait, pick yer stupidity)
when I can remember everything I have heard or read digitally?
to -change- your incomprehensible spelling and impossible grammer rules?
The Queens English, and to lesser extend American English, is a stagnating monstrous multi-headed beast which is pronounced radically different than the miriads of spelling possibilities imply.
No wonder English speaking countries have staggering heights of dislexia. Sjees, even Sheakespeare spelled his name wrong.
These misspellers? They are modernizers! Listen to them!
He, Im Dutch. I can say things like this.
Most people here would -welcome- that kinda content..
Who knows?
This is an expirimental reactor.
Oh, and the people dissing Greenpeace? See previous statement.
Dude its vapour.
Lets wait, Ill bet ya a karma the thin.
There is DRM for MP3 (thompson?) compatibility is an issue.
Somehow I think the RIAA does not care about compat, and DOES care about protection.
- All of the crap from p2p.
- None of the goodness.
- DRM on top.
This will be reaaaaal popular.
You forget a crucial thing: the IRA is just not a political/terrorist org anymore.
It has long time descended into a full swing criminal org.
You are not -seriously- thinking the IRA gves a flying fuck about Ireland anymore do ya? Its all bout the dope trade, the moneys and the missing kneecaps nowadays.
Not true:
"they are still happy to purchase them from people they know at the office/pub/school"
I know about warez. I know about usenet. I actively have traded. (as in dl/ul, no money) I also work, for +15 years in IT.
Whilst it no doubt has happened, most people do NOT pay for warez traded at offices or schools. People share, and swap.
95% is like that. At least in "Going Dutch" The Netherlands it is not done to ask money for a cd trade. The "commercial" pressed warez cd's, are very uncommon.
Uh, no.
You pretend the new constitution would somehow fix this problem.
It would not. It would ingrave the current undemocratic process, whilst giving the parlement very very little more power.
Zero power is bad. Zero power plus infinitely small power is STLL no power for EU parlement. All this hot air in exchange for a lot LESS power for the NATIONAL governements. You know, those bodies of power people know about and have some interest in.
One good thing with the referenda thou; a lot more people are actually paying attention to EU politics.
I see a headline: Windows to have NO GUI, who cares?
really. Why TF link to these people? Dont give him that!