Where will it stop.
I’m thinking they will own Wal-mart by the end of the decade.
Where will it stop.
I’m thinking they will own Wal-mart by the end of the decade.
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I admire them for approaching the market with cleverness and invention, rather than brutish force and intimidation. That's the way to create new uses and products--new genres even--that are indispensable to people.
I agree. Very innovative company.
One of my daughters playmates father went to school with the founders.
I have been toying with an idea that I might propose to them.
If I suddenly drop off BT you'll know they bit.
The challenge is how to propose it so that the credit accrues to you...
I have been toying with an idea that I might propose to them. >>>
I think she went to Cold Spring HArbor HS......If Blodgett says, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
TipiFest 06~~> Send me your email addy for a Paypal invoice to the greatest show on earth~~>[email protected]
Who?
Its funny, but I was at a meeting last month and a Prof from PSU said Google will have a serious OS and Office type package out in the next 5 years. And they will give it away. Free. Download it(Sorry dial uppers)and run. Thinking is it will kick Microsoft off the top pretty fast. The selling point is the system using the web better, faster, and more seamlessly. And storing info on their web servers for global transfer. I thought no way. Then Sketchup came out. Free. ;)Everyone loves Google, right?
Everyone loves Google, right?
not necessarily. When Google was just a search company, pretty much everyone was happy/impressed. Now that they're branching out into other areas, people are starting to question them.
Just because they're giving stuff away for free, doesn't mean anything. The Micro$oft antitrust suit was for, in part, giving away IE for free.
Marine Engineerfair winds and following seas
But, by in large, Google is a trusted name in many households. And peoples contempt of MS could help. I'm betting on them in the long haul.
I think Google is a good brand. But I'm expecting over the next few years that there will be lots of stories about big bad Google and their predatory behavior, using their search monopoly to squeeze out competitors in xyz.People love to b!tch about companies that provide good service at low (or even free) prices.Marine Engineerfair winds and following seas
This is their corporate philosophy: http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html
I like it.
one of the chicks that founded GOOGLEIf Blodgett says, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
TipiFest 06~~> Send me your email addy for a Paypal invoice to the greatest show on earth~~>[email protected]
Until the Google office is ready you can get OpenOffice. It's a free download, which should meet with the approval of many, and it does more than I'll ever need.http://www.openoffice.org/
>>Until the Google office is ready you can get OpenOffice. It's a free download, which should meet with the approval of many, and it does more than I'll ever need.Or you can download a trial version of WordPerfect.http://tinyurl.com/74tgj(Other Corel apps can be trial DL's from http://tinyurl.com/6nrb8) The full WP version isn't free, (there are several versions, the "Family" version is pretty inexpensive) but OpenOffice is still pretty rudimentary and has areas of instability, and it uses the same object oriented approach that Word uses which is fundamentally at odds with doing complex documents.If all you need are simple letters/memos, etc you can get by with Works, WordPad or Notepad.If you need just simple spreadsheet stuff, WP's tables feature has all the power you're likely to need, so you can saty in one application. And WP has "Reveal Codes" so you can see exactly how the document and all of its bits and pieces are put together, so when a document gets complex, or goes wonky, you can understand it / fix it.Finally, you don't need to understand styles in WP, which are essential in Word for anything fancy (WP has styles, but doesn't need them.)(For years, Wordys said "Reveal Codes is old technology - you don't need it." Word 2003 has introduced a faint echo of RC. Most of the "innovations" in the various releases of Word are were introduced in WP a version or 2 before.)Somewhat out of date, but a user comparison is at http://hem.passagen.se/worldnet/wpvsword/
Fighting Ignorance since 1967
It's taking way longer than we thought
Another gizmo that I won't know how to use.
blue
It's not a gizmo, it's a spreadsheet, very useful for things like estimating, bookeeping, baseball stats, etc.
Useful for people smart enough to make them work. I'm not smart enough. To me, it's a gizmo.
blue
If you can frame a house, you are smart enough to use a spreadsheet, just takes a little practice, don't be intimidated.
>>>>>To me, it's a gizmo
That's what some think about pnuematic nail guns and telehandlers. Don't get me started on the internal combustion engine.
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And what about speed squares?
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
Don't get me started on the internal combustion engine.Wait a minnit, are you intimatin' we gots engins insides us? Sheeeooowt! I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Sorry, I meant "infernal".
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awlright, which leads us to extubular exfarctions, which while propulsive are also quite repulsive...dang it's time for South Park. I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head