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You should see the way they drive! :-]

You're an idiot. Plain and simple.

PDF is still the best format for finished works.

If you are having and have had problems with it all these years, I would submit that it is you, not Adobe that is the piece of s*it dog.

Live it or live with it...

Why don't you just pay for what you want and we can all cut out the middle man?

Then all those poor middlemen would have to find jobs on the free market and would suffer from not having fat pension entitlements. And, whoa, they'd have to give up the cushy cradle-to-grave health care and look for HMO insurance just like the rest of us. Maybe they have a pre-existing condition and won't find converage at all. Now that would be a dose of reality, wouldn't it?

Not to mention the power that goes with the control over the purse strings.

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They gave me a pile of my money back. Not enough, but some.

Right. I want *MY* money to flow *MY* way, not yours. I'm quite happy when you keep your money, though if you want to give it away that's perfectly within your rights and all three of us are happy. Don't give mine away; I'll do that myself, thanks. Got it?

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Where were the purse strings when your boys were in control?

Interesting how its 'them' when the money isn't flowing your way but its 'our elected officials' doing 'the will of the people' when you are flush with cash.

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Tell the city of Sacramento. They are in the hole to the tune of >$40M or so. Yet they just decked out a brand new office building with plush brand new furniture. Mostly custom made. That makes me sick.

The "rationale" was that they value their employee. Hah! They laid off some right before that. I've equipped an office/lab building myself. We used all 2nd hand stuff, cubicles, desks, everything. Cost about 35% versus new including thorough steamn cleaning and looked great.

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Exactly what I'd expect from the lefties.

"For the children..." In their eyes, we're all their children.

Would you happen to have a link for that?

No text but it was televised in great detail a few days ago on KOVR (CBS13). I can't view flash stuff but probably this is the story:

I do. I also have Word 97 and 2000. Backwards compatibility to those versions, as far as I can tell in a few simple tests today, hasn't been affected. What isn't in Word 2003 (if it ever was) is various Save As formats that are in Word 2000, including Word 2.x, Word 6.0, Word 95, and various Word for Mac versions.

It's worth pointing out that this only means Word 2003 won't _write_ those formats. I don't know if it will still _read_ them or not.

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And that is a substantial issue which I believe cost MS quite some sales. For example, I cannot use any word processor unless it is able to write files that can be read into '97 and 2000.

I could understand why one uses ms-word or sort of stuff to create or edit documents, but I really do not get it why one would use it for communication. Print the whole thing in .pdf format and be done with it?

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Joerg wrote:

I usually do that. However, there are times when a larger group has to collaborate on a project and in my cases the members are often thousands of miles apart. Then you need an easily editable format where everyone has the tools to edit. And that's the MS-Word format.

... and YOY does everyone want resumes in "word format"? PDFs are perfect for this, but there is no arguing the point.

(and why can't I reply to your post?)

We used Frame for such things, but someone still has to own the document or it gets hopelessly out of sync pretty fast.

Their keyword extractors are built to parse Word (or are written in VBA).

Robert

It sure would be. We usually do it like relay runners. Baton gets handed off to SW guy and nobody else changes anything. He hands it over back to me, then on to the process engineers etc.