Ian Lynch wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 09:53 -0500, mark wrote:
Still, maybe by 5.0, OO.o will be good. Hell, I despised WordPerfect
before 5.0 or 5.1
I used WP 5.1 on DOS and Novell. Then Impression Publisher came out with
infinitely scalable outline fonts, true WYSIWYG, colour separations and
real-time grpahics rotation on a 25 MHz processor, 4 meg machine without
the need for a hard drive and direct drive laser printing. WP could not
Wow. Never heard of it, but *wow*. On the other hand, in the trade press
about ten years ago, they were reviewing the latest offerings of WP
and Word, and noted that 90% of the users *never* *used* 90% of the
features, and the remaining 10% of the users used any of the other
features maybe 10% of the time. So much of "new, improved!" is for
sales, and sales alone, not through any need or desire of 90% of the
users. I'd love to see a lightweight word processor that ran like a bat
out of hell (you know, as though you were running on a machine that was
a thousand times faster than a 286... <g>), and didn't have, oh, the
ability to embed a freakin' movie in a document. (Early movie mogul
saying: if you've got a message, send it Western Union; if you've got a
movie, attach the damn thing to an email.)
<snip of stuff on effient code which I agree with 100%>
mark
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teenager." -British Immigrant
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