Tendo City

For those of you who remember him, TC vet Demon is working at [[[[[ UNDISCLOSED BUSINESS IN REDMOND WASHINGTON ]]]]]], and if he does well he could be picking up a job there so everybody give him belly farts and perfume so this boy can make good!

if you need more hints, there's a reason i'm posting it *here*.

Here, and not in Forum 5? :)

Demon, huh? He hasn't been here in a long time...

No, the real forum 5, not that piece of shit.

And yeah he's too good for us. Jewy snob.

I talked to him online but he hates me now... Something about his shinigami powers or whatever his nickname is now.

Wow that's great news...unless it's the rather large corporation in Redmond that happens to make a computer OS. If it's the other corporation then excellent!

Quote:Wow that's great news...unless it's the rather large corporation in Redmond that happens to make a computer OS. If it's the other corporation then excellent!

Meh, some of said evil corporation's products are okay... :)

Not all of them, but some.

I know. I actually really like Excel 2007. The new ribbon is much better than the menu system once you get used to it.

Ugh, Office. I hate MS Office... I've always really, really disliked Word. My old computer came with Word 2000 on it. I used it for a month of pain with the thing before I got our old 1996 version of Wordperfect and used that for several years until I got a recent copy of WP 10. On my current machine I don't have WP yet, but after trying Word 2007 or whatever, and instantly hating it even more than I hated Word 2000, I downloaded OpenOffice, which is tolerable, if not as good as Wordperfect.

WordPerfect forever! :)

Internet Explorer is of course bad too. But then I like Seamonkey/Mozilla and not Firefox...

Well, good for demon! Now tell him to get his ass back here!

I like Word. I tried OpenOffice but the save files were, for whatever reason, ten times as large as before, so I quit on it.

Plus, I just like the one-touch word count bar. I need it.

And, ABF, you used Windows ME for years. The worst OS the company ever created.

Quote:I like Word. I tried OpenOffice but the save files were, for whatever reason, ten times as large as before, so I quit on it.

Huh? I've always found the exact opposite to be true. Word documents are very consistently much larger than OpenOffice or WordPerfect ones (though .rtf files are sometimes smaller than any of those, they also have limitations on what you can do with them). I've had to do a lot of saving documents in their native format as well as in Word format, and I can't think of one single time when the Word document is smaller. Doing a little checking backs that up.

Wordperfect: WP size vs. Word size. All originally created in Wordperfect and later saved as Word files within the program, for transfer.

13KB WP, 24KB Word; 28 WP, 97 Word; 22 WP, 84 Word; 5KB WP, 28KB Word,

Wordperfect format vs. generic .rtf
6 WP, 7 RTF; 8 WP, 8 RTF; 35 WP, 31 RTF.


And then there's this one... three versions of the same file, from different times.
1 page Word version: 32KB
2 page RTF version: 6KB
4 page Wordperfect version: 9KB

Similarly... various versions of a paper from last semester.
20 pg. Word version: 137KB
28 pg. Word version: 233KB
34 pg. Wordperfect version: 85KB
36 pg. Word version: 297KB

OpenOffice: same as above, but Openoffice size/Word size.

29 OO, 124 Word; 28 OO, 128 Word.

Wordperfect 6 and 10 can't save in .odt and OO can't save in .wpd, though (and I don't have Wordperfect installed on this machine yet), so I can't directly compare those two. :) But I think I've pretty well proven the point.

Quote:And, ABF, you used Windows ME for years. The worst OS the company ever created.

Maybe "compared to their previous OS", but not objectively. It's certainly better than any of the Windows versions before Windows 98 (I mean, Win95's 2GB partition size limit just isn't going to cut it anymore... :D)...

And it got me working real-mode DOS, which was great, and is something I miss on this computer.

Oh wow, I just read that. :D