Driving through town again.
This time we went to Rundle mall and Rundle street. Christmas is coming and we shall know it!
The mall's balls.
Santa lives here apparently.
We went into the Borders bookshop. We had a non-alcoholic beverage in their little cafe.
One of the things I had been looking forward to. Where The Netherlands seem a 3rd world country when it comes to smoking regulations, Australia knows smoking regulations for many, many years now. And recently they made it even more pleasant for the non-smoking majority.
These cutie-pies were washing and cleaning in the Rundle mall fountain.
This fountain to be exact.
We saw a shop called "Chocolat". How can we not go in? I couldn't actually finish my "Harry Hazelnut".
I'm buying more and more software these days in an attempt to become a 100% legal software user. This MS Office bundle cost AUD 228. That's about EUR 150 which is not much for what you get.
Driving through town again.
This time we went to Rundle mall and Rundle street. Christmas is coming and we shall know it!
The mall's balls.
Santa lives here apparently.
We went into the Borders bookshop. We had a non-alcoholic beverage in their little cafe.
One of the things I had been looking forward to. Where The Netherlands seem a 3rd world country when it comes to smoking regulations, Australia knows smoking regulations for many, many years now. And recently they made it even more pleasant for the non-smoking majority.
These cutie-pies were washing and cleaning in the Rundle mall fountain.
This fountain to be exact.
We saw a shop called "Chocolat". How can we not go in? I couldn't actually finish my "Harry Hazelnut".
I'm buying more and more software these days in an attempt to become a 100% legal software user. This MS Office bundle cost AUD 228. That's about EUR 150 which is not much for what you get.
13 comments:
"That's about EUR 150 which is not much for what you get."
Open Office is even cheaper: free, as in gratis!
@ Kees: But not the industries standard unfortunately. Say what you want, I like MS Word. I'm having enough of a hard time getting used to OS X and it's quirks so I'm not going to also start using new office software, sorry :-)
First of all: I hate Word, if you look at the filename of a Word doc it will ask you if you want to save the changes.
If you need to send document for reading, send them as PDF: OpenOffice can create pdf's.
OpenOffice can read and write Word documents, as far as I know even better than Word.
For spreadsheets I have no opinion.
"Everytime you buy a microschoft product god kills a kitten"
I agree with Gerrit; OO is more compatible with M$ than M$ itself...
'"harry hazelnut"'ziet er geweldig uit,het water loopt je uit de ...
skype is geinstaleerd, moeten het maar eens proberen.
mooi weekend,
gr, ma en pa.
@ Gerrit:
- That's bullshit, it doesn't ask to save all the time at all.
- If I need to send a document for reading, then why can I not send it as a Word document instead of a PDF? Sounds like incredible bullshit argument to me as well. Besides, people can also easily edit PDF's these days.
- Nothing deals with Word documents better than MS Word.
You don't hate MS Word, you're scared of something you don't know.
If you're not happy with MS' incredibly aggressive marketing strategy and it's monopoly then bitch about that, I'm sure you -will- find a valid argument then.
@ Kees: And where did you find this amazing wisdom then? Mate, your record seems stuck at the bit where it says "I hate Microsoft". Didn't you say the last time you used MS products was in 1981? I think every single thing you say about modern days MS products can be rendered void and null then because unlike your opinion, MicroSoft -has- changed the last 25 years.
@ ma: Ik zal Skype zo nu en dan eens aanzetten. Als je wilt weten of ik online ben (da's bijna nooit trouwens want ik bel liever gewoon) dan moet je de gebruiker mrvince73 toevoegen aan je contacten in Skype.
"And where did you find this amazing wisdom then?"
OO is the same codebase running on MacOs, Windows or Linux. MS Office is different when you run it on a PC or a Mac. It doesn't run at all on Linux.
So, if you need an "industry standard" that will work platform agnostic, you need OO. And yes, it does read and write all MS formats. And it is free.
"Mate, your record seems stuck at the bit where it says "I hate Microsoft"."
Yep, and with reason; I've had too many hair-tearing moments with other people's PCs that got stuck and where they asked me to come and fix it. Why do you think I'm bald and grey before my time? :-)
You turned grey because of stupid people that didn't want to take time themselves to learn how MS Word or MS Windows works. I could ask you SO many things about Apple's OS X (let alone Linux) right now that your hair would probably turn white! ;-)
The bottomline is that something isn't "bad" because you or other people don't know how to use it properly.
I find Open Office a great initiative btw, don't get me wrong. I just prefer MS Office right now because (amongst lots of other reasons) I don't want to have to learn new things again, I like to be productive instead.
And I think you should go to bed now btw ;-)
Ta.
Vince: pdf, it makes sure you are on the same page, does not expect the receiver to have the same non-free software installed. Has a decent size, does not leave traces of what has happened to the document all over the place.
Editing is still possible but can be prevented and is a little harder.
I have been inside Word documents in places where the sun does not shine.... with a reason (At this point I would like to throw in that documents are my bread and butter).
Standards: PDF is an ISO standard, OpenOffice writes to an OASIS/ISO standard.
MS Office is a Microsoft only 'standard' and certainly not open.
Business Ethics: (This is a contradiction in terms, BTW) in my opinion companies can't get to a certain size without resorting to methods coming from a bussiness school based on a small Italian island.
Looking for proof? Search on OOXML (take the name with a large dose of salt), Nigeria/Ubuntu Microsoft/Eu. Just to name a few cases from the last couple of weeks.
I am using enough MS products, only a few paid for out of my own pocket, to be able to say: "pot/kettle/black", there was a little irony in my first reaction...
This must be really boring for all the other ('normal') people reading this blog. Well I will stop now, I need to see if I can upgrade my computer and see if I can run Windows 2000 with xen on my Fedora machine.......
The discussion is endless.
I'm having a hard time getting used to OS X.
uh, the sparrows are cute
gerrit you crack me up
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