Comment Re:I don't want a "branded user experience" (Score 2) 88
needs to be branded and at least partially closed otherwise where should all the code from the NSA go?
needs to be branded and at least partially closed otherwise where should all the code from the NSA go?
The move, made behind closed doors and without a public announcement by the House Ethics Committee, reverses more than three decades of precedent. Gifts of free travel to lawmakers have appeared on the yearly financial form dating back its creation in the late 1970s, after the Watergate scandal. National Journal uncovered the deleted disclosure requirement when analyzing the most recent batch of yearly filings. “This is such an obvious effort to avoid accountability,” said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “There’s no legitimate reason. There’s no good reason for it.”
Once again more evidence that we the voters must replace as many of these crooks, from both parties, as we can.
it doesn't sound like this is the first experiment done by the facebook crowd -> What other experiments happened? Were the participants informed about it later? Who takes the blame if such an experiment results in someone getting hurt?
Stress test for the new server, what else?
that they didn't scam the bank and bought a few nice gadgets.
(or may be they have and nobody noticed
got a link to these 'early reports'?
Windows 3.1 -> worked
Windows 98 -> crashed but worked sometimes
Windows ME -> just crashed
Windows XP -> worked, but has it's drawbacks (64bit version was better, but never really useful due to missing drivers)
Windows Vista -> too much trouble to use
Windows 7 -> useful, but not as customizable as XP
Windows 8.x -> not so useful if you don't have a touch screen, less and less accessible customizations possible
Windows 9 -> hoping that Windows 8 is like Vista and Windows 9 will be useful like Windows 7
-> more silicon for female frontal tuning
Thinking more about it: Not asking "why use X instead of Word", but asking "Why would you use Word instead of anything else?"
Only reason I use Word is because I from time to time get some strange formated and macro filled document from a client who lives Word and I need to use Word to properly read the document. -> so the only reason I'm using it from time to time is because I'm forced to do
Most of my stuff I write in a normal text editor (and save it inside a git repository
I only use Word/LibreOffice/GoogleDocs/... for formating and to meet a clients needs.
For personal stuff, which needs formating I normally use LibreOffice.
For publishing stuff I use latex.
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Bottom line is, I see no reason to use Word over any other tool.
Even if LibreOffice, GoogleDocs, Office 365 and Word would all satisfy my needs, there is nothing that Word offers to me that separates it from the rest.
-> Why use Word?
'Why would we use Google Docs over like Microsoft Word?'
Stupid question:
- Word should be compared with LibreOffice
- GoogleDocs should be compared with Office 365
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