[ale] MS Office new version

[James Sumners]

_Or_ I could focus on my partial differential equations class and my
senior project. I just need to pass chemistry to satisfy the core
requirement. I don't care enough about it to rewrite all of the
downloadable Word documents in LaTeX, or plot everything in Maple.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:02 AM, GLA <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Latex and GnuPlot still work...
>
>  or....
>
>  You could even get much fancier than Excel
>  and do all your graphics from the command line:
>
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>  Password:
>  Last login: Sat Apr 19 00:08:05 2008
>  SunOS 5.9 sun4u
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>  You have new mail
>  Sat Apr 19 00:17:12 EDT 2008
>  [1] gla2 at godzilla% math
>  Mathematica 5.0 for Sun Solaris (UltraSPARC)
>  Copyright 1988-2003 Wolfram Research, Inc.
>   -- Terminal graphics initialized --
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>  <snip>
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>        \{ 1.24595,0.947701\} ,\{ 1.31226,0.966765\} ,\{ 1.37966,0.981789\} ,
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>  .... and you get the idea.
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>  On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 07:19:24PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>  > I have to use MS Word and MS Excel to do my chemistry lab reports this
>  > semester, and summer. I can't use OO Calc because it doesn't support
>  > adding the trend line equation to a plot. I could use OO Writer for
>  > the Word parts, but since I have to use Excel, I just go ahead and use
>  > Word. I'm using Office 2008 for Mac, and if it is any indication of
>  > Office on Windows then there is plenty reason to use OOo aside from a
>  > possible subscription model. Office 2008 is the insanely frustrating
>  > and slow.
>  >
>  > Yes. I just implied OOo is faster than Office. It's that damn bad.
>  >
>  > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>  > > this looks like the ultimate reason to switch to OpenOffice ( and maybe even
>  > >  Linux!)
>  > >
>  > >  News.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed a subscription service is
>  > >  in the works for the next consumer version of their Office Suite. "Code-named
>  > >  Albany, the product has a single installer that puts Office Home and Student,
>  > >  OneCare, as well as a host of Windows Live services, onto a user's PC. As
>  > >  long as users keep paying for the subscription, they are entitled to the
>  > >  latest versions of the products. Once they stop paying, they lose the right
>  > >  to use any version."
>  > >  Read more of this story at Slashdot.
>  > >  --
>  > >  Paul Cartwright
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>  > >  Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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>  > pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>  > is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>  > drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59