• Ralph (unregistered) in reply to Don
    Don:
    Ralph:
    Hint: "Word" is not a standard, it is a vendor's proprietary product. So saying "my document is in Word format" is like saying "I know how to make noise with my mouth without expressing anything meaningful."
    Ah, of course. Yet by saying exactly "my document is in Word format"; most intelligent - crap no, pretty much all users I've ever known in 20 years doing IT - know what product to use when opening the document. At most, you're missing the information of version but since most office platforms have compatibility patches that allow you to read Word 2010 docs natively on Word 2003; even that's not a barrier.

    So in conclusion, you're essentially an idiot with too much time on your hands mate.

    Yeah, so I guess you're one of those people who thinks everyone runs Windows. And it's a joy to test and deploy those "compatibility" patches on the umpty-leven versions of Windows still hanging around with those users who don't send Redmond more money every time a pop-up tells them to.

    And the web, with the genius concept of everyone can talk to everyone, will never really take off, because, frankly, who needs it when you can just email Word documents to anybody who matters?

  • wazza2 (unregistered)

    I just think if you are considering upgrading your version of Teamviewer in order to establish some sort of connection with your partner - then the relationship is already over.

  • (cs) in reply to nevyn
    nevyn:
    Woot! Software I work on is featured on TDWTF! Is that a milestone or a new low...?

    Long story short, statfs and statvfs are not interchangeable...

    Software I support (I assume you mean Snapfish) is featured here - Do any of the rollouts go without issue?!!

    And, why oh why oh why - for the love of god, is this site done in Java. </rant>

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    Don:
    Ralph:
    Hint: "Word" is not a standard, it is a vendor's proprietary product. So saying "my document is in Word format" is like saying "I know how to make noise with my mouth without expressing anything meaningful."
    Ah, of course. Yet by saying exactly "my document is in Word format"; most intelligent - crap no, pretty much all users I've ever known in 20 years doing IT - know what product to use when opening the document. At most, you're missing the information of version but since most office platforms have compatibility patches that allow you to read Word 2010 docs natively on Word 2003; even that's not a barrier.

    So in conclusion, you're essentially an idiot with too much time on your hands mate.

    Yeah, so I guess you're one of those people who thinks everyone runs Windows. And it's a joy to test and deploy those "compatibility" patches on the umpty-leven versions of Windows still hanging around with those users who don't send Redmond more money every time a pop-up tells them to.

    And the web, with the genius concept of everyone can talk to everyone, will never really take off, because, frankly, who needs it when you can just email Word documents to anybody who matters?

    Good point. That's why it is absurd to say, "This book is written in English", when there are many people in the world who don't speak English and have never been to an English-speaking country.

    Ummm ... the fact that not everyone has the software to read a particular data format does not mean that that data format does not exist. The fact that a data format is proprietary does not mean that it does not exist. The fact that you don't like a data format does not mean that it does not exist. The fact that a format is known by the name of the product it was intended to be used with does not mean that it does not exist.

    I don't like Word format either. But the reality is that it DOES exist and that LOTS AND LOTS of people use it. You can't wish it out of existence.

  • Mick (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Please do not be disterbing this thread. I am coming here for insite and entertanement, not stupidity.
    I once heard someone say that "Nagesh is Insightful".

    Some time later, I realised Insightful is not a word.

  • William the Second (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    Don:
    Ralph:
    Hint: "Word" is not a standard, it is a vendor's proprietary product. So saying "my document is in Word format" is like saying "I know how to make noise with my mouth without expressing anything meaningful."
    Ah, of course. Yet by saying exactly "my document is in Word format"; most intelligent - crap no, pretty much all users I've ever known in 20 years doing IT - know what product to use when opening the document. At most, you're missing the information of version but since most office platforms have compatibility patches that allow you to read Word 2010 docs natively on Word 2003; even that's not a barrier.

    So in conclusion, you're essentially an idiot with too much time on your hands mate.

    Yeah, so I guess you're one of those people who thinks everyone runs Windows. And it's a joy to test and deploy those "compatibility" patches on the umpty-leven versions of Windows still hanging around with those users who don't send Redmond more money every time a pop-up tells them to.

    And the web, with the genius concept of everyone can talk to everyone, will never really take off, because, frankly, who needs it when you can just email Word documents to anybody who matters?

    So it's more important to be pedantically correct than understood?

  • Joh (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Ralph:
    Don:
    Ralph:
    Hint: "Word" is not a standard, it is a vendor's proprietary product. So saying "my document is in Word format" is like saying "I know how to make noise with my mouth without expressing anything meaningful."
    Ah, of course. Yet by saying exactly "my document is in Word format"; most intelligent - crap no, pretty much all users I've ever known in 20 years doing IT - know what product to use when opening the document. At most, you're missing the information of version but since most office platforms have compatibility patches that allow you to read Word 2010 docs natively on Word 2003; even that's not a barrier.

    So in conclusion, you're essentially an idiot with too much time on your hands mate.

    Yeah, so I guess you're one of those people who thinks everyone runs Windows. And it's a joy to test and deploy those "compatibility" patches on the umpty-leven versions of Windows still hanging around with those users who don't send Redmond more money every time a pop-up tells them to.

    And the web, with the genius concept of everyone can talk to everyone, will never really take off, because, frankly, who needs it when you can just email Word documents to anybody who matters?

    Good point. That's why it is absurd to say, "This book is written in English", when there are many people in the world who don't speak English and have never been to an English-speaking country.

    Ummm ... the fact that not everyone has the software to read a particular data format does not mean that that data format does not exist. The fact that a data format is proprietary does not mean that it does not exist. The fact that you don't like a data format does not mean that it does not exist. The fact that a format is known by the name of the product it was intended to be used with does not mean that it does not exist.

    I don't like Word format either. But the reality is that it DOES exist and that LOTS AND LOTS of people use it. You can't wish it out of existence.

    I rection you miss his point....

    I think he's saying the standard (if we can call it that) is DOC not Word. Word just happens to be the program that created the DOC standard.

    That said, I think Ralph's being a pedantic knob-jockey, FWIW

  • Randy Snicker (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    three orders of magnitude larger than the teen quantity of PB...
    I am not familiar with this unit. What is the size of "teen quantity of PB"?
  • FishDude (unregistered)

    TRWTF is gun and ammo prices at Gander Mountain.

  • Zunetang (unregistered) in reply to Randy Snicker
    Randy Snicker:
    Steve The Cynic:
    three orders of magnitude larger than the teen quantity of PB...
    I am not familiar with this unit. What is the size of "teen quantity of PB"?
    It's not a very precise amount, as teens grow different sizes of Public Bush at different points in adolescence.
  • Zunetang (unregistered) in reply to Zunetang
    Zunetang:
    Randy Snicker:
    Steve The Cynic:
    three orders of magnitude larger than the teen quantity of PB...
    I am not familiar with this unit. What is the size of "teen quantity of PB"?
    It's not a very precise amount, as teens grow different sizes of Pubic Bush at different points in adolescence.
    Today, I feel like such an asshat that I must be wearing a cockscarf.
  • sc517 (unregistered) in reply to portablejim

    HFS+ is not supported by Windows (at least not without installing an extra filesystem driver). It's Apple's FS for Macs.

  • pewee herman (unregistered) in reply to Zunetang

    Man, I've got to get me some of that public bush...

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