Um, maybe I read the article wrong, but I understood it to mean there were 8 cameras being issued to 8 different officers. Each officer gets ONE camera, and it certainly doesn't capture images in 360. The submitter should learn to read and understand articles before posting misinformation.
There used to be a photo with the article, and it's just a small camera mounted to their head gear like extreme sports nuts use. Hardly revolutionary, and certainly not surreal, given that cops have used cameras in their patrol cars for years. This is just the logical next step, and a good idea IMO.
Everyone's entitled to their opinions I suppose, but Pages is a full feature word processor that also does a great job of laying out more complex pages. If you start with a blank page, then you can just start typing.
As for TextEdit, have you ever run it? It has a toolbar with ruler, alignment, text styles menu, lists menu and tab controls. You use the Mac OS X standard system-wide Fonts palette to change fonts and other text attributes (underline, strikeout, colour, background colour and text shadow).
Just because it doesn't have these features in a toolbar, doesn't mean it's not a decent word processor. If you prefer MS Word, then buy MS Word, but don't expect every other word processor out there to conform to MS Word's paradigm on word processing. I actually find that Microsoft Word is a horrible word processor because it's styles feature isn't easy to use and is so broken that most people never use styles. So when they decide they want to change the look of their 30 page document, they spend an hour or two manually selecting each element and changing the formatting of it manually. I hate getting word documents from other people that I have to incorporate into a larger project. I almost always have to waste time manually reformatting because most MS Word users don't even know what styles are, yet it's right there in the toolbar!
Pages and Text Edit both put text styles front and center to encourage people to use it. Then when they decide they want to restyle their document, they spend 30 seconds adjusting the style and their document reformats itself. Using them requires you to unlearn the bad habits that MS Word taught you. Once you figure that out, you'll realize that Pages and Text Edit's paradigm is far more efficient.
TextEdit is a fully functional word processor with spell check, support for images, WYSIWYG display/output, MS Word compatibility and can save as PDF. It's more word processor than 75% of home users need. If people need more, they also have the iWork '06 30-day trial which they can begin using immediately for 30 days. If they find they need the extra features, they can pay $79 for an unlock code and it will include Keynote for presentations.
If THAT's not enough, there's the MS Office 2004 test drive which is also installed on the hard drive. So in effect, the Mac mini comes with 3 word processors to choose from out of the box.
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Um, maybe I read the article wrong, but I understood it to mean there were 8 cameras being issued to 8 different officers. Each officer gets ONE camera, and it certainly doesn't capture images in 360. The submitter should learn to read and understand articles before posting misinformation. There used to be a photo with the article, and it's just a small camera mounted to their head gear like extreme sports nuts use. Hardly revolutionary, and certainly not surreal, given that cops have used cameras in their patrol cars for years. This is just the logical next step, and a good idea IMO.
Everyone's entitled to their opinions I suppose, but Pages is a full feature word processor that also does a great job of laying out more complex pages. If you start with a blank page, then you can just start typing.
As for TextEdit, have you ever run it? It has a toolbar with ruler, alignment, text styles menu, lists menu and tab controls. You use the Mac OS X standard system-wide Fonts palette to change fonts and other text attributes (underline, strikeout, colour, background colour and text shadow).
Just because it doesn't have these features in a toolbar, doesn't mean it's not a decent word processor. If you prefer MS Word, then buy MS Word, but don't expect every other word processor out there to conform to MS Word's paradigm on word processing. I actually find that Microsoft Word is a horrible word processor because it's styles feature isn't easy to use and is so broken that most people never use styles. So when they decide they want to change the look of their 30 page document, they spend an hour or two manually selecting each element and changing the formatting of it manually. I hate getting word documents from other people that I have to incorporate into a larger project. I almost always have to waste time manually reformatting because most MS Word users don't even know what styles are, yet it's right there in the toolbar!
Pages and Text Edit both put text styles front and center to encourage people to use it. Then when they decide they want to restyle their document, they spend 30 seconds adjusting the style and their document reformats itself. Using them requires you to unlearn the bad habits that MS Word taught you. Once you figure that out, you'll realize that Pages and Text Edit's paradigm is far more efficient.
TextEdit is a fully functional word processor with spell check, support for images, WYSIWYG display/output, MS Word compatibility and can save as PDF. It's more word processor than 75% of home users need. If people need more, they also have the iWork '06 30-day trial which they can begin using immediately for 30 days. If they find they need the extra features, they can pay $79 for an unlock code and it will include Keynote for presentations. If THAT's not enough, there's the MS Office 2004 test drive which is also installed on the hard drive. So in effect, the Mac mini comes with 3 word processors to choose from out of the box.