I disagree - Microsoft did a LOT of research into the ribbon. Their target were clerical employees and recent college graduates with minimal training.

I personally love the ribbon, and have seen it improve productivity quickly. It also allows for more and easier customization than was possible previously. I have a custom ribbon in my company. Having it with drop downs like the old days just wouldn't have worked as well, I don't think.

Anyone who runs for president and opposes universal healthcare just can't legitimately be called a liberal. Buttigieg should be running as a Republican.

But we do forget prejudice. Democrats need the black vote, and while no one wants to admit, blacks do not like homosexuals. Even Obama had stay opposed to gay marriage to keep his black coalition together.

None. And this is why democracy is not a legitimate form of government.

Yeah, I used to work on my own motorcycles for years. Bought a Mercedes Benz C-Coupe AMG model.

No way I can work on that thing.

Women weigh more than men in America. Haven't you looked around? Most women resemble pigs more than humans.

Every attempt to separate money from sovereignty is an attempt to steal and scheme. They want to legalize counterfeiting, which remains a capital offense. But they do so under the guise of "freedom".

Yeah, but the Ottomans got lazy on all the riches they skimmed off of trade between Europe, India and China. Then Europeans decided to build big boats, and the Ottomans suddenly had no money. All their technology (which included firearms superior to European ones) didn't matter in the end.

The Muslim world has a lot of complex problems. Major military defeats are part of it. American imperialism is a BIG part of it. But at the moment, too many Muslim countries are in chaos to the point they can't devote sufficient resources to scientific research. And some of that chaos is local. Not one top tier science university in Dubai? Corruption of Muslim leadership also has its place.

speculation is not capital growth.

You need to learn what the word Capital means - i.e. the means of production.

1) Google is evil.
2) Android sucks. It is fundamentally broken, and inevitably becomes unusable after a short period of time. I switched to iPhones because my $600 android phone was so fucking slow I couldn't get a girl's phone number in a timely fashion. It was a joke.
3) Girls all use iPhones and will think less of you when your texts are green.
4) There is no appreciable difference between apps on the two platforms to warrant google evilness and android insecurity/instability.

At the end of the day, most people buy Android phones because they can't afford an iPhone.

Most likely, you've never produced any kind of document of any complexity that warrants the use of Microsoft Office. You're probably find using WordPad, or Google Docs. As said to another poster, the cost of Microsoft Office is almost trivial - it is literally the price of two fucking cups of Starbucks.

You get the latest version of Office, every single day. You get OneDrive, which has the best dynamic hosting of local files out of all the various services. I just can't comprehend people bitching over $10.

LibreOffice is total crap. utter crap. It is entirely useless if your business is producing complex documents, particularly if they involve any kind of analytics.

Is that the reputation to Apple users? Most Mac owners I know use Microsoft Office and are happy with it. The linux gutter trash that has been the staple of Slashdot for 20 years doesn't matter. They've been hating on Microsoft and proclaiming some kind of software revolution my entire adult life, and OpenOffice still blows.

Are you seriously bitching about $1,200 over 10 years? What are you, a barista at Starbucks?

I can bill that in 3 hours, and my staff is pretty much required to bill that much every single day. If you're business is such shit that you can't afford $1,200 over 10 years, well - guess what? Microsoft is not the company for you.

For the rest of us in the real world, it's a damned pittance, especially with the cloud storage thrown in.

You're poor. That sucks.

This is FAIRLY true. Amazon Video is OK, but there is no question the social aspect of Spotify will never work for Amazon. Their services are always bare bones.

BUT THE COUNTERFEIT GOODS

Fuck. I've gotten burned so many times. Every time I think they are getting better, nope. Ordered a $100 bottle of Chrome Azzaro. Looks like the real thing, smells like the real thing for 30 minutes. Then nothing.

Fucking thieves.

You really have no idea how to appraise real estate. Your understanding of ground leases is particularly strange and rather bizarre. You make it sound like they are a big deal when, really, they are not.

Considering the value of the land (and yes, ground that is leased has value) you are saying an 850,000 SF building in one of the highest rent places in the world should be worth $235 per square foot. And you are basing this on - the relocation costs for Apple?

$235/SF is less than a piece of shit warehouse in the Bronx.

You're crazy bro!