You have to spend hours getting windows to work with hardware too unless you get an oem disc which is specifically tailored for the machine you're using...
Bullshit. You just have to have an OEM disc for the specific hardware, not the machine. And you pretty much always have it if you bought the hardware new or can download the driver from the Internet if you got it second-hand and the previous owner didn't give you the disc. With Linux, the driver may not exist at all, may not be fully functional, or may not be built for your distro version, and this happens much more often than with Windows.
I guess you don't care about Troll moderation, but anyway, if you said "violation of property rights" instead of "theft," the meaning would be basically the same, but it wouldn't provoke knee-jerk reaction as much.
After installing SP1 and turning off unneeded stuff (indexing, restore points, Aero etc.), Vista feels virtually as fast as XP on my Samsung Q70 laptop. Battery life is half an hour less, but at 3.5 hours max. it's decent. And Vista is quite more stable than XP IME. UI-wise, it may be less convenient in some aspects (taking network UI as an example). All in all, I'm quite satisfied with Vista at the moment (as opposed to the default OEM configuration pre-SP1 which was dreadful.)
Well, too bad for you. Maybe you stopped thinking as well.
I've been working for 9 years as a freelance translator using a variety of Office versions (pirated 2000 and 2003, then legal 2002) with customers using everything from Office 97 to Office 2007, and I've yet to encounter a single problem related to document incompatibility between versions. So my experience tells me that in actual practice, Word self-incompatibility is greatly exaggerated.
You may still run into troubles if you say try to open a document using some 2002- or 2003-specific document features in Word 2000. But those features are not basic at all (actually, they are mostly useless), and people just don't use them when collaborating. In contrast, OO.o Writer, as of v3.1, still doesn't leave intact my manual page breaks, comments, and bullet/numbered lists made in Word - which is as basic as it gets. I've never have Word do that for me.
So yes, Word 2002 gives me full format compatibility for all practical purposes - even with the 2007 format, using the free addon from Microsoft. I bought 2002 and not 2003 because I found it at a good price. 2007 was not an option because I consider it inferior to previous version speed- and UI-wise.
I tried Office 2007 and uninstalled it in 30 minutes because I quickly got to hate the new UI. However, as far as basic performance goes, I was pleasantly surprised. It was somewhat slower, but not much. Some colleagues reported though that add-on applications relying on VBA had become significantly slower.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not (because I see some subtle reference to "640K ought to be enough for everybody" in your post,) but I know for a fact that at least Soviets did use larger volumes of magnetic memory. The design bureau that my dad still works at produced magnetic memory for Soviet strategic missile defense systems back then.
I dunno, Windows 95 OSR2 was extremely stable for me on a 486dx2-66 with 8M RAM. Granted, I only used Word 97, and didn't have Internet connection until I think 2000 (I live in Russia.)
Profit reduction due to effective tax rise will almost certainly lead to layoffs or salary cuts. So nitpick all you want, but profits and salaries are closely related.
I used Firefox 3 (with AdBlock Plus) but recently switched to Chrome 2.0 when it still was in beta. And then I realized that ads don't bother me anymore, now that my browser is SO fast. I've been running Chrome 2.0 for a couple of weeks - not a single hiccup since!
Chrome is great! Switched from Firefox to Chrome 2.0 recently and no regrets whatsoever. I don't even miss any Firefox extension. The speed and reliability are stunning - wow, I can now launch my browser in a second, its UI doesn't freeze because of a misbehaving tab anymore, and making suggestions when typing in the address bar don't slow it down to crawl! Also, very nice, inobtrusive download management interface. All in all - just great.
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You have to spend hours getting windows to work with hardware too unless you get an oem disc which is specifically tailored for the machine you're using...
Bullshit. You just have to have an OEM disc for the specific hardware, not the machine. And you pretty much always have it if you bought the hardware new or can download the driver from the Internet if you got it second-hand and the previous owner didn't give you the disc. With Linux, the driver may not exist at all, may not be fully functional, or may not be built for your distro version, and this happens much more often than with Windows.
I guess you don't care about Troll moderation, but anyway, if you said "violation of property rights" instead of "theft," the meaning would be basically the same, but it wouldn't provoke knee-jerk reaction as much.
No, it's them, those people. But yes, they call themselves "We, the people."
Thank you, Russia has its own outrageous IP laws, and new ones are coming from within :-(
OO.o Writer:
- Doesn't preserve manual page breaks -> FAIL
- Doesn't preserve comments -> FAIL
- Screws bullet and number formatting -> EPIC FAIL
MS Word 2000-2007:
- Does nothing of that -> OWNS OO.O WRITER
After installing SP1 and turning off unneeded stuff (indexing, restore points, Aero etc.), Vista feels virtually as fast as XP on my Samsung Q70 laptop. Battery life is half an hour less, but at 3.5 hours max. it's decent. And Vista is quite more stable than XP IME. UI-wise, it may be less convenient in some aspects (taking network UI as an example). All in all, I'm quite satisfied with Vista at the moment (as opposed to the default OEM configuration pre-SP1 which was dreadful.)
And yes, I'm the AC above.
I guess I stopped reading after that comment
Well, too bad for you. Maybe you stopped thinking as well.
I've been working for 9 years as a freelance translator using a variety of Office versions (pirated 2000 and 2003, then legal 2002) with customers using everything from Office 97 to Office 2007, and I've yet to encounter a single problem related to document incompatibility between versions. So my experience tells me that in actual practice, Word self-incompatibility is greatly exaggerated.
You may still run into troubles if you say try to open a document using some 2002- or 2003-specific document features in Word 2000. But those features are not basic at all (actually, they are mostly useless), and people just don't use them when collaborating. In contrast, OO.o Writer, as of v3.1, still doesn't leave intact my manual page breaks, comments, and bullet/numbered lists made in Word - which is as basic as it gets. I've never have Word do that for me.
So yes, Word 2002 gives me full format compatibility for all practical purposes - even with the 2007 format, using the free addon from Microsoft. I bought 2002 and not 2003 because I found it at a good price. 2007 was not an option because I consider it inferior to previous version speed- and UI-wise.
Sorry, MS doesn't use state resources proportionally to licensing revenues. Also, they pay other taxes.
Moreover, taxes, as long as they exist, SHOULD be regressive. As is the price for any specific good or service.
From what I recall, what made Microsoft Office appear to launch so quickly was that most of the dll's it needs are started at boot time.
This is a myth. Office 2003 under Wine starts as fast as under Windows if not faster.
I tried Office 2007 and uninstalled it in 30 minutes because I quickly got to hate the new UI. However, as far as basic performance goes, I was pleasantly surprised. It was somewhat slower, but not much. Some colleagues reported though that add-on applications relying on VBA had become significantly slower.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not (because I see some subtle reference to "640K ought to be enough for everybody" in your post,) but I know for a fact that at least Soviets did use larger volumes of magnetic memory. The design bureau that my dad still works at produced magnetic memory for Soviet strategic missile defense systems back then.
I dunno, Windows 95 OSR2 was extremely stable for me on a 486dx2-66 with 8M RAM. Granted, I only used Word 97, and didn't have Internet connection until I think 2000 (I live in Russia.)
BTW, what version of Softmaker Office do you refer to?
You confuse saving with hoarding. Read up on the difference, Google is your friend.
Profit reduction due to effective tax rise will almost certainly lead to layoffs or salary cuts. So nitpick all you want, but profits and salaries are closely related.
Yeah, like a corporation doesn't have customers buying its goods.
So the tax does indeed affect consumers badly, therefore we can say that they pay the tax, albeit not directly with money.
I used Firefox 3 (with AdBlock Plus) but recently switched to Chrome 2.0 when it still was in beta. And then I realized that ads don't bother me anymore, now that my browser is SO fast. I've been running Chrome 2.0 for a couple of weeks - not a single hiccup since!
Same here in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Here in St. Petersburg, Russia McDonalds limits the free WiFi time to 30 minutes. Guess that's what they find suitable.
And they still can't figure out how to make it follow DE's antialiasing settings.
Chrome is great! Switched from Firefox to Chrome 2.0 recently and no regrets whatsoever. I don't even miss any Firefox extension. The speed and reliability are stunning - wow, I can now launch my browser in a second, its UI doesn't freeze because of a misbehaving tab anymore, and making suggestions when typing in the address bar don't slow it down to crawl! Also, very nice, inobtrusive download management interface. All in all - just great.
You mean sexual exploitation, not child porn per se. (And child porn is bad because it supposedly provokes child abuse.)
But all of this involves physical interaction without consent. You'd better give some examples where no such interaction exists.
Could you nevertheless explain briefly how exactly it's measured in law how much someone's feelings were hurt? I honestly don't know.