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Comment: Re:Too Bad. (Score 1) 275

by NJRoadfan (#43783323) Attached to: Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3
What really gave Excel a boost was the fact that it was a "user friendly" GUI application that ran under multitasking Windows and OS/2. DOS versions of Lotus 1-2-3 wouldn't even run under Windows due to its non-standard DOS extender (it ran under natively OS/2 since it was a "family application").

Comment: Re:How about cutting Notes? (Score 1) 275

by NJRoadfan (#43783155) Attached to: Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3
I remember configuring the Notes client for a family member. The procedure given by her office was two pages long! The program screams Windows 3.1x era underpinnings (.INI files everywhere) and UI design still. As much as Outlook is bloated these days, the most one usually has to do is point it to an Exchange server and give it log-in credentials to get it up and running.

Comment: Re:How about a sane order of posts instead? (Score 1) 109

by NJRoadfan (#43750571) Attached to: Google Betting Its Google+ Systems Know What's Best For You
Google has shown that it doesn't have programmers that know a damn thing about human-computer interaction time and time again (see YouTube). NIH also is alive and well at that place too. I thought Apple was bad! People tend to forget that the original Google+ rollout was a mess that looked like some random manager said "hey, looks good enough, get it live ASAP to make the CEO happy." Remember, just because you have a Ph. D. (or any random assortment of important looking letters after your name) doesn't mean you are qualified.

Comment: Re:Google chat users affected (Score 1) 109

by NJRoadfan (#43750515) Attached to: Google Betting Its Google+ Systems Know What's Best For You
This would explain why my chat list is missing a few regulars. I knew something was up when my phone was bugging me about updating to Hangouts this morning (never EVER set your phone to autoupdate anything!) Whats funny is none of those people show up as blocked in the GMail Talk client like that forum post says, I'm likely blocked on their side and the distribution of people seems random. Funny that back in the day if AOL (remember them?) tried this crap with AIM, people would be howling. Google does this crap on a regular basis and people go "meh". Some of us just want a simple chat client with a list of contacts that works. I wonder how this will effect people who don't use Google clients or contact Google Talk clients via AIM or other IM services via their "gateway".

Comment: Re: Reason For Subsidies (Score 1) 329

by NJRoadfan (#43696309) Attached to: The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered
You may be able to activate it on Verizon by dialing *228 and selecting "activate phone" from the voice prompts which should program the phone over the air with an existing account. Some people had success activating non-VZW phones that way in the past. Prior to mid 2005, you used to be able to convince CSRs to activate non-VZW phones (thats how I got an unbranded/uncrippled Nokia 6255i on their network), but that loophole was closed.

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