I spec'ed out the xoticpc as closely as I could to the MBP 17" stock model at $2499. It came to $1218.
However, it has a 1400x900 display (vs 1920x1200), no wireless-n option, no GeForce 9400M/9600M GT graphics, no information about weight and, possibly most importantly, no information about battery life.
While it does come in significantly less expensive, I don't think that you can argue that they are equivalent.
It's not hard to write a better one. It's hard to write one that's still compatible with the a) unpublished, b) quirkily implemented, c) voluminous spec that is MS word. At least sufficiently well enough to be a modest replacement.
I'm sure the folks at OO.o have been trying VERY hard to match Word behavior, but it's obviously not that simple.
I've run into several issues where OO.o doesn't render word docs properly and many more where an OO.o saved doc doesn't render properly at all in Word.
A shame, really. But that's the reason that we still have MS Office in the house. My wife and I use it for work just often enough that we can't afford not to have it.
That's Diet Coke breaks(tm) for those of us on this side of the pond.
Caught me off guard there thinking "That's not the way the commercials went..."
Dammit... there you go leaking national security secrets.
Now we'll have to come up with something else to make them out of.
Paper towel rolls and Dixie cups with tissue paper for "flames", perhaps?
Congratulations! You have just expedited your addition to the no-fly list by using those two words in the same sentence!
Now you can get "assistance" at the airport when bringing your replacement batteries along!
--Your friends at the TSA (or your local equivalent)
It wouldn't be a
When _I_ read the headline, I thought it was an announcement of a new product called "Microsoft Caves", which would change security in Windows 7.
I figured that in order to improve security, they would put you in your own "cave" (figuratively or, perhaps, literally). Seemed like a terrible concept, but from the makers of "Bob", who knows...
"User switching now called 'visiting another person's cave'!"... uh... wait... maybe not.
Think of the ear-infection diagnostic opportunities!
Argh... if only it had a flash.
Maybe Wal-Mart customers aren't so bad where you live, but here in Arizona, going to a Wal-Mart is not a fun experience, unless you like tripping over countless undisciplined children running amok and throngs of non-English speaking customers who walk very slowly and always insist on taking up the entire aisle, instead of staying to one side so you can get by.
There's a reason I'll only shop at Wal-Mart after 11pm.
Isn't that when all the parents take their kids there?
My Walmart horror story:
I have a vivid memory of going to pick up baby formula (something that couldn't wait) at 0730 on a Sunday morning and passing a streetwalker near the food section who'd apparently just gotten off her shift.
I'm hoping she was a working girl, given the scariest leopard print dress and tallest heels I've ever seen.
Scary, scary stuff, that early on a Sunday.
</trauma>... <please
Uh... they do. They have the same sort of records for the breathalyzers. I was "fortunate" enough to be chosen for a DWI jury in Texas and we were offered testimony and evidence of exactly that.
Sadly, we had a hung jury because two jurors thought he "didn't look that drunk", even though he was clearly not behaving the way a sane, sober person would act in a situation with that much on the line and he blew more than twice the legal limit (while under age, no less).
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
