I haven't missed anything.. And I generally do agree with you that the upgrades are not all about obsoleting previous versions. The reasons, right or wrong don't take away from the previous posters (who was not me by the way) opinions either. The functionality of 97 was fine for him, and not worth spending more money for things he didn't use. As to who is more productive with their particular version of Office that could go any way, depending on the user and the tasks needing to be done.
I don't think it has to do with processing power or memory, although the more you have the more they will find a way to use it up.. The ability to do what you describe (cut and paste large chunks of text and pictures) comes about from using a spreadsheet in an unconventional way.. Nothing wrong with that, but the same objectives can be achieved in Office 97 in other ways.. Just an FYI, both OpenOffice and Gnumeric had no problem pasting the post. I personally don't have a problem with MS upgrading Office to make it do things that people want to do, but it is way over priced.. The only other programs that are worse, are CAD programs.. both Ofiice and CAD programs seem to be under the impression that they are going to take as big a chunk of your cash as they can, because after all you are making money by using it.
It is, in small chunks.. The majority of sales come from businesses who have for a long time perceived that to be "professional" they have to have MS Office. As we have had tougher economic times, there have been more businesses willing to give OO.o a shot.. These are actual lost sales.. However, MS is so entrenched in some places, you have people who wouldn't give it a try regardless of of the price or even if it was better or faster.. these people will never switch based on any sane rational... As to the average consumer, pretty much the same types of people willing to shell out money on an overpriced office suite, will still do it.. MS has long ago priced themselves higher than the average person wants to spend on it.
There are already billions being spent every year on new fiber. The job of making it available everywhere (or even a good chunk of everywhere) is a big one... years, maybe even a decade, away. Even places that have it, don't seem to compete well against good old DSL.. I wonder how many here even know the areas near them that have it.
Depends which Razor.. I had one on T-Mobile and I thought the UI, though not great, was ok.. when my moms phone quit working on her I got her a Razor for a replacement.. She is on Sprint.. I absolutely hated the Sprint versions UI.. If I had known it, I wouldn't have gotten it for her.
Have creation theories, then they need to have several others for context.
In the beginning there was an empty darkness. The only thing in this void was Nyx, a bird with black wings. With the wind she laid a golden egg and for ages she sat upon this egg. Finally life began to stir in the egg and out of it rose Eros, the god of love. One half of the shell rose into the air and became the sky and the other became the Earth. Eros named the sky Uranus and the Earth he named Gaia.
To compare what people once believed without evidence, to what they now believe is relevant. The above was documented by people who existed before the people who wrote the bible, that doesn't make it what actually happened.. The fact that people said or wrote things, does not make them facts.
Some people still get together and stress out their internet connection with multiple players.. Don't underestimate the fun of seeing people cry out in agony in real life.
Fiber is already being built and available to some.. AT&T and Verizon both offer it. It is a long slow process of expansion. Regardless of how smart or nice Google is, I highly doubt they can implement anything any faster.
For a little perspective, I try and imagine myself becoming an expat in another country.. If the country I moved to had a beef with my old country, I would take some interest, and I might have a little perspective on how my former country thinks.. I don't see a problem with that, however actively taking sides against my new country would be wrong.. I don't think there is anything wrong with immigrants maintaining an interest in their old country or providing their views on political situations.. I do however have a problem with flag waving.. It chaps my hide to no end to see an American citizen or illegal immigrant waving some other countries flag in a protest in the country they are living in.. It in fact, turns me against whatever cause they are fighting for no matter if it's just or right, because it makes me want to round em up, load em up on a bus, and drop them and their flag in the country the flag represents.
Because the phone costs, and plan costs are just part of the equation. A similar thing could be said for the iPhone, and cell phones in general really. You don't need any of them, and money can be better spent other ways.. but if you want a particular experience, and are willing to pay for it, then you pay for it.. The real benefit of paying up front, is not total cost. The benefit is for people who may or may not decide 6 months or a year or whatever, they they really don't use the phone or data plan enough and want to do something different. Yes the initial cost may be a bit steep to act in such a way, but people do it all the time anyway with early termination fees.
I doubt that.. It's more like they can route anything they want to through it easily, splitting a stream copy. Yes I imagine they can monitor and search a large number of streams looking for something, it's the monitor everything part that I doubt. And in a small room in San Francisco.. You would need incredible storage capacity to save even 10 minutes of all the internet traffic on just AT&T's network.
No mod points, or they would be yours.. Android phones are not geek phones.. they are not difficult to use.. (mine came without a manual, and I haven't needed one).. If there is a person on the planet who is intimidated by an Android phones UI, they are going to have the same problem with an iPhone, and probably any cell phone in general.
Emergency rooms get clogged with people who don't have insurance, because it's the law that they have to be treated.. So simple non emergency things that a regular doctor can do, become the ER's job.. regular docs get to screen their customers for only people that have insurance. Those here that want to maintain the status quo often bring up the "lines at the ER" that health care reform is supposed to create.. it's BS, because it's already that way, and actually lines would probably be reduced as people actually go to a doctor for the simpler things.
There is also something going on with browsers these days.. As a support person, I have a heck of a time getting people to actually browse to a URL.. 9 times out of 10 they enter it in, and they end up doing a search for it... It's annoying.. So the fact that all these people can't just go where they want and end up searching for everything they type, and there is a corresponding increase in Bing usage is not surprising at all to me.
In examining the screenshots, and downloading a free draw program from Android Market (DrawNoteK) my results were the same as the iphones without even trying. My phone is a myTouch, which is also a HTC phone, that the articles results seem to favor over the Motorola, but as I got nowhere near the squiggly lines that they show in their screenshots, the whole thing is suspect.. I guess someone with a Motorola will have to try it themselves as well.. but for now I call BS.
Well, In the Lucas case.. they have actively marketed things like action figures. I don't think in the case of the Droid phone, that permission was required, but it was a good idea to work with Lucas as a preventative measure.. The connection that these people are trying to make to the book or movie I never would have made, and I have seen Blade runner a few times.. actually if I was asked for a movie that the Nexus name reminded me of, it would have been the Star Trek movie.
The company you think of as AT&T is really a re-branded SBC and has only been AT&T for 5 years.. They are not also the only ones who have done the merge and get bigger thing.. In souther California I was a GTE customer, they became Verizon.. then when I moved to Northern Cal I was a PacBell customer who became SBC.. then when I moved to Reno I was an SBC customer who became AT&T... To tell you the truth, I think it hurts these companies to merge their different offerings under the same name.. For example, you might have a horrible experience with their mobile phones, but a better experience with their landline or DSL service.. To the consumer it's all the same company, so therefore if one sucks, they all do.. But in the company they are all run separately.
History.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gsm (read history section).. then read.. http://globalccf.org/cdma_resources/history.html.. forgetting proposals and studies in both (GSM was waaay earlier).. lets just focus on implementation.. GSM was implemented as a working standard 1991 and CDMA in 1992... your anti-American thing is just wrong.. where do you get it ?.. I also don't think GSM is junk, I think it is kind of cool to have the sim swapping capability.. As AT&T has shown you on their commercials, you can also use the GSM and 3G network simultaneously, which is apparently not possible with the CDMA carriers.. I really could care less for that feature, but it kind of takes some of the "superiority" out of CDMA. I use GSM (not AT&T), and I have used all the CDMA carriers.. for call quality I have no horror stories that are not phone model based, that would lead me to believe either was superior.. For me it was the sim capability, and travel uses that influenced my choices in favor of GSM.
Strange.. on this machine I am typing on (Linux Lenny Xfce).. OpenOffice,org Calc version 3.1 opens in about 2 and a half seconds.. Gnumeric opens in slighly less than a second.. For pure speed, Gnumeric wins.. but Calc looks nicer.. I don't use MS Office other than work, so can't give you times for it on my machine. For what I need to do at home, OpenOffice does just fine, and speed is not an issue.
They don't have 34 billion in cash though do they ? They have 34 billion in assets.. Noika's 34 billion is euros, which is 48 billion US BTW.. so to achieve half of 48 billion, they would need 24 billion... So lets think about that, if this crazy scenario were to play out (it won't).. Apple uses 24 billion, leaving only 10 billion in their own company.. But what about the other way, what if Nokia went even crazier and used 17 billion to buy half of Apple, leaving them 31 billion in their own company.. who sounds stronger ?
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I haven't missed anything.. And I generally do agree with you that the upgrades are not all about obsoleting previous versions. The reasons, right or wrong don't take away from the previous posters (who was not me by the way) opinions either. The functionality of 97 was fine for him, and not worth spending more money for things he didn't use. As to who is more productive with their particular version of Office that could go any way, depending on the user and the tasks needing to be done.
I don't think it has to do with processing power or memory, although the more you have the more they will find a way to use it up.. The ability to do what you describe (cut and paste large chunks of text and pictures) comes about from using a spreadsheet in an unconventional way.. Nothing wrong with that, but the same objectives can be achieved in Office 97 in other ways.. Just an FYI, both OpenOffice and Gnumeric had no problem pasting the post. I personally don't have a problem with MS upgrading Office to make it do things that people want to do, but it is way over priced.. The only other programs that are worse, are CAD programs.. both Ofiice and CAD programs seem to be under the impression that they are going to take as big a chunk of your cash as they can, because after all you are making money by using it.
It is, in small chunks.. The majority of sales come from businesses who have for a long time perceived that to be "professional" they have to have MS Office. As we have had tougher economic times, there have been more businesses willing to give OO.o a shot.. These are actual lost sales.. However, MS is so entrenched in some places, you have people who wouldn't give it a try regardless of of the price or even if it was better or faster.. these people will never switch based on any sane rational... As to the average consumer, pretty much the same types of people willing to shell out money on an overpriced office suite, will still do it.. MS has long ago priced themselves higher than the average person wants to spend on it.
There are already billions being spent every year on new fiber. The job of making it available everywhere (or even a good chunk of everywhere) is a big one... years, maybe even a decade, away. Even places that have it, don't seem to compete well against good old DSL.. I wonder how many here even know the areas near them that have it.
Depends which Razor.. I had one on T-Mobile and I thought the UI, though not great, was ok.. when my moms phone quit working on her I got her a Razor for a replacement.. She is on Sprint.. I absolutely hated the Sprint versions UI.. If I had known it, I wouldn't have gotten it for her.
Have creation theories, then they need to have several others for context.
In the beginning there was an empty darkness. The only thing in this void was Nyx, a bird with black wings. With the wind she laid a golden egg and for ages she sat upon this egg. Finally life began to stir in the egg and out of it rose Eros, the god of love. One half of the shell rose into the air and became the sky and the other became the Earth. Eros named the sky Uranus and the Earth he named Gaia.
To compare what people once believed without evidence, to what they now believe is relevant. The above was documented by people who existed before the people who wrote the bible, that doesn't make it what actually happened.. The fact that people said or wrote things, does not make them facts.
Some people still get together and stress out their internet connection with multiple players.. Don't underestimate the fun of seeing people cry out in agony in real life.
Fiber is already being built and available to some.. AT&T and Verizon both offer it. It is a long slow process of expansion. Regardless of how smart or nice Google is, I highly doubt they can implement anything any faster.
For a little perspective, I try and imagine myself becoming an expat in another country.. If the country I moved to had a beef with my old country, I would take some interest, and I might have a little perspective on how my former country thinks.. I don't see a problem with that, however actively taking sides against my new country would be wrong.. I don't think there is anything wrong with immigrants maintaining an interest in their old country or providing their views on political situations.. I do however have a problem with flag waving.. It chaps my hide to no end to see an American citizen or illegal immigrant waving some other countries flag in a protest in the country they are living in.. It in fact, turns me against whatever cause they are fighting for no matter if it's just or right, because it makes me want to round em up, load em up on a bus, and drop them and their flag in the country the flag represents.
to be the default desktop in a distro ?
I don't even know why anyone would by a Nexus 1
Because the phone costs, and plan costs are just part of the equation. A similar thing could be said for the iPhone, and cell phones in general really. You don't need any of them, and money can be better spent other ways.. but if you want a particular experience, and are willing to pay for it, then you pay for it.. The real benefit of paying up front, is not total cost. The benefit is for people who may or may not decide 6 months or a year or whatever, they they really don't use the phone or data plan enough and want to do something different. Yes the initial cost may be a bit steep to act in such a way, but people do it all the time anyway with early termination fees.
I doubt that.. It's more like they can route anything they want to through it easily, splitting a stream copy. Yes I imagine they can monitor and search a large number of streams looking for something, it's the monitor everything part that I doubt. And in a small room in San Francisco.. You would need incredible storage capacity to save even 10 minutes of all the internet traffic on just AT&T's network.
Yes..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
Check the dates.
No mod points, or they would be yours.. Android phones are not geek phones.. they are not difficult to use.. (mine came without a manual, and I haven't needed one).. If there is a person on the planet who is intimidated by an Android phones UI, they are going to have the same problem with an iPhone, and probably any cell phone in general.
Emergency rooms get clogged with people who don't have insurance, because it's the law that they have to be treated.. So simple non emergency things that a regular doctor can do, become the ER's job.. regular docs get to screen their customers for only people that have insurance. Those here that want to maintain the status quo often bring up the "lines at the ER" that health care reform is supposed to create.. it's BS, because it's already that way, and actually lines would probably be reduced as people actually go to a doctor for the simpler things.
There is also something going on with browsers these days.. As a support person, I have a heck of a time getting people to actually browse to a URL.. 9 times out of 10 they enter it in, and they end up doing a search for it... It's annoying.. So the fact that all these people can't just go where they want and end up searching for everything they type, and there is a corresponding increase in Bing usage is not surprising at all to me.
It seems to me that our society suffers more from unrealistic pessimism.. Loss of personal freedoms, wars, layoffs...
In examining the screenshots, and downloading a free draw program from Android Market (DrawNoteK) my results were the same as the iphones without even trying. My phone is a myTouch, which is also a HTC phone, that the articles results seem to favor over the Motorola, but as I got nowhere near the squiggly lines that they show in their screenshots, the whole thing is suspect.. I guess someone with a Motorola will have to try it themselves as well.. but for now I call BS.
Well, In the Lucas case.. they have actively marketed things like action figures. I don't think in the case of the Droid phone, that permission was required, but it was a good idea to work with Lucas as a preventative measure.. The connection that these people are trying to make to the book or movie I never would have made, and I have seen Blade runner a few times.. actually if I was asked for a movie that the Nexus name reminded me of, it would have been the Star Trek movie.
Offline maps.. http://www.andnav.org/
The company you think of as AT&T is really a re-branded SBC and has only been AT&T for 5 years.. They are not also the only ones who have done the merge and get bigger thing.. In souther California I was a GTE customer, they became Verizon.. then when I moved to Northern Cal I was a PacBell customer who became SBC.. then when I moved to Reno I was an SBC customer who became AT&T... To tell you the truth, I think it hurts these companies to merge their different offerings under the same name.. For example, you might have a horrible experience with their mobile phones, but a better experience with their landline or DSL service.. To the consumer it's all the same company, so therefore if one sucks, they all do.. But in the company they are all run separately.
History.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gsm (read history section).. then read.. http://globalccf.org/cdma_resources/history.html .. forgetting proposals and studies in both (GSM was waaay earlier).. lets just focus on implementation.. GSM was implemented as a working standard 1991 and CDMA in 1992 ... your anti-American thing is just wrong.. where do you get it ? .. I also don't think GSM is junk, I think it is kind of cool to have the sim swapping capability.. As AT&T has shown you on their commercials, you can also use the GSM and 3G network simultaneously, which is apparently not possible with the CDMA carriers.. I really could care less for that feature, but it kind of takes some of the "superiority" out of CDMA. I use GSM (not AT&T), and I have used all the CDMA carriers.. for call quality I have no horror stories that are not phone model based, that would lead me to believe either was superior.. For me it was the sim capability, and travel uses that influenced my choices in favor of GSM.
Strange.. on this machine I am typing on (Linux Lenny Xfce).. OpenOffice,org Calc version 3.1 opens in about 2 and a half seconds.. Gnumeric opens in slighly less than a second.. For pure speed, Gnumeric wins.. but Calc looks nicer.. I don't use MS Office other than work, so can't give you times for it on my machine. For what I need to do at home, OpenOffice does just fine, and speed is not an issue.
There is just too much in your post to address..
They don't have 34 billion in cash though do they ? They have 34 billion in assets.. Noika's 34 billion is euros, which is 48 billion US BTW.. so to achieve half of 48 billion, they would need 24 billion... So lets think about that, if this crazy scenario were to play out (it won't).. Apple uses 24 billion, leaving only 10 billion in their own company.. But what about the other way, what if Nokia went even crazier and used 17 billion to buy half of Apple, leaving them 31 billion in their own company.. who sounds stronger ?