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Comment by George Lazarette posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 13/03/2011 - 22:40
Oggy wrote:
Generalisations are not necessarily evidence of woolly thinking.George Lazarette wrote:
Actually, Excel is an excellent prog.
Word is appalling
Access is dreadful
Et cetera.
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You criticise others for "woolly thinking" then you make a generalisation like that? Copy book well and truly blotted. I assume you mean you like/dislike them.Actually, Excel is an excellent prog.
Word is appalling
Access is dreadful
Et cetera.
G
Excel is respected by all who know how to use it. Word on the other hand is generally despised. It was inferior to Wordperfect and to Amipro, but succeeded because Microsoft bundled it with Excel to form the first version of Office.
After a dozen or more versions, the paragraph formatting still doesn't work properly, and changing styles is much more cumbersome than it might be.
I understand many legal firms still use Wordperfect. I'd still use Amipro if I had a copy.
As for Access, it is a one-file DB that only works well with one user. Totally unscaleable. It should have been abandoned years ago.
It's great for applications like a holiday planner for teams of 5 or fewer people.
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Comment by George Lazarette posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 13/03/2011 - 22:36
With respect, it was the first spreadsheet on a personal computer, or "micro", as they were known then.
You presumably never used TabAPL.
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You presumably never used TabAPL.
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Comment by George Lazarette posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 13/03/2011 - 22:16
techno-terminator wrote:
I'm one of the few folk that I know who ALWAYS reverses into a parking place...
It's actually not possible to park by driving in forwards. The back wheels can't get close to the kerb.I'm one of the few folk that I know who ALWAYS reverses into a parking place...
So, I presume that most of the folk you know don't have cars.
Or not for long.
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Comment by George Lazarette posted on Another pointless thread at 13/03/2011 - 22:11
Algernon wrote:
I've not used Excel for years, but, I used to find it very annoying that it couldn't work out Deg. Min. Sec. from Decimal Degrees or the similar Hr. Min. Secs
Lots of people use these and a simple trig. calculator can do it, so why don't spreadsheets? They don't even handle degrees you have to convert to radians first?
I eventually finishd up with the following for the Seconds Col. (not sure if it's right or not)
@INT(60*((60*(N8-@INT(N))-@INT(60*(N8-@INT(N))))
Something in PC Mag about it, but you shouldn't have to do all this
I never use Word either, probably still buggy after all these years. It used to really annoy me that you couldn't Highlight a word with the mouse and then choose Search & Replace.... it was broken Even the early versions of DOS Edit could do that, so could Wordpad but not Word. Just imagine someone having to change a lot of Part No's in a Manual
They partly fixed it in (I think) 2003, but it still didn't work if there was a space or it was two words.
I have to go back to NT5 for the last decent FileManager Winfile
(Still works with XP and W7)
Having no control over what is selected with the mouse when I click on a line is annoying as is the Caps Lock staying on, you would think they would at least make it beep
Algy,I've not used Excel for years, but, I used to find it very annoying that it couldn't work out Deg. Min. Sec. from Decimal Degrees or the similar Hr. Min. Secs
Lots of people use these and a simple trig. calculator can do it, so why don't spreadsheets? They don't even handle degrees you have to convert to radians first?
I eventually finishd up with the following for the Seconds Col. (not sure if it's right or not)
@INT(60*((60*(N8-@INT(N))-@INT(60*(N8-@INT(N))))
Something in PC Mag about it, but you shouldn't have to do all this
I never use Word either, probably still buggy after all these years. It used to really annoy me that you couldn't Highlight a word with the mouse and then choose Search & Replace.... it was broken Even the early versions of DOS Edit could do that, so could Wordpad but not Word. Just imagine someone having to change a lot of Part No's in a Manual
They partly fixed it in (I think) 2003, but it still didn't work if there was a space or it was two words.
I have to go back to NT5 for the last decent FileManager Winfile
(Still works with XP and W7)
Having no control over what is selected with the mouse when I click on a line is annoying as is the Caps Lock staying on, you would think they would at least make it beep
It would be impossible to provide a built-in function for everything. As you have found, by putting a few brain-cells to work, you can achieve your objective. That is Excel's strength.
G.
Comment by George Lazarette posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 13/03/2011 - 20:15
Actually, Excel is an excellent prog.
Word is appalling
Access is dreadful
Et cetera.
G
Word is appalling
Access is dreadful
Et cetera.
G
Comment by George Lazarette posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 13/03/2011 - 00:23
Mannesty wrote:
MSE 'fights' with other AV software causing temporary system freezes, even when any other previously installed AV software is removed.
That's very clever of it.MSE 'fights' with other AV software causing temporary system freezes, even when any other previously installed AV software is removed.
Are you quite sure?
Is it possible that the un-installation was not complete?
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Comment by George Lazarette posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 12/03/2011 - 16:59
I'm getting fed up with frequently uninformed criticism in reviews.
But whether there is a general bias against Pentax is open to argument. I suspect that a lot of what we complain about is sloppy, rather than biased.
I recently acquired a Panasonic camcorder. Guess what? I've observed some ill-informed and sloppy reviews of it.
But we are right to care. If Pentax loses sales because of undeserved bad reviews, then it will slow down the development of new cameras and lenses.
G
PS: But I am with you on general whingeing. Life's not half as bad as some people paint it.
But whether there is a general bias against Pentax is open to argument. I suspect that a lot of what we complain about is sloppy, rather than biased.
I recently acquired a Panasonic camcorder. Guess what? I've observed some ill-informed and sloppy reviews of it.
But we are right to care. If Pentax loses sales because of undeserved bad reviews, then it will slow down the development of new cameras and lenses.
G
PS: But I am with you on general whingeing. Life's not half as bad as some people paint it.
Comment by George Lazarette posted on Getting fed up of review bashing at 12/03/2011 - 16:47
Gwyn wrote:
well my husband got back from France on an earlier flight so I have actually seen him on his birthday!
I had planned a nice meal (duck) for tomorrow evening, but we had it tonight instead. And even better his mixer desk thingy that is his expensive birthday present was delivered just after he arrived home .
I bought a couple of books for the Grandson. Although it is his birthday today too they are celebrating it tomorrow, so we'll see if they go down well or not.
I find books a bit indigestible. Duck goes down much better.well my husband got back from France on an earlier flight so I have actually seen him on his birthday!
I had planned a nice meal (duck) for tomorrow evening, but we had it tonight instead. And even better his mixer desk thingy that is his expensive birthday present was delivered just after he arrived home .
I bought a couple of books for the Grandson. Although it is his birthday today too they are celebrating it tomorrow, so we'll see if they go down well or not.
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Comment by George Lazarette posted on Another pointless thread at 11/03/2011 - 23:20
I know they do that, but how many people take any notice?
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Comment by George Lazarette posted on K-x review blasts K-5 (!?) at 11/03/2011 - 23:15
In a thousand years time, people will worship Tim Berners-Lee. He created the WWW in seven days, and history was born.
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