OT: Question about Office 2013

[Good Guy]

I see that Office 2013 is licensed for installation on one computer
only. Given that Office is updated every three to four years, what
happens if the computer packs in before then? Will there be mechanism
to transfer or to deauthorise one computer and substitute another or
to buy another licence without having to buy the whole package again?

Has anyone here tried Office 2013?

I haven't tried Office 2013 and I have no intention of trying it now
unless my employers expects me to know about it.

However, Microsoft has started attacking pirates very seriously by
having restrictions on how you install its products. There is a limit
as to what additional functions you can introduce in an application to
tempt customers to buy your product so you restrict them from buying one
license package and installing it on two or more machines!

It is time to find alternatives or to continue using old products up to
Office 2010. I have Office 97, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010
and I don't have any plans to buy yet another Office.

 

[Stan Brown]

I can see you either don't run your own business or you run it badly.
Name recognition ring a bell? Worrying about wasting bandwidth went out
when broadband made the scene or do you still use dial up?

Whether the _sender_ uses broadband is irrelevant. What matters is
whether the _recipient_ does, and whether the recipient has to pay
for bandwidth, as many people do.

As a sender, considering only your own wishes is really pretty
disrespectful of the people you are trying to get to buy from you.

 

[Stan Brown]

Not the point.


Anyone who surfs with a toy that has very, very, very limited bandwidth
is an idiot. BTW, my logo is less than 4K in size. Can your limited
bandwidth handle that?

So you think anyone you send email to is "an idiot" if they dare to
read your precious email on their mobile phone. Good luck with that.

 

[Stan Brown]

Microsoft is in the U.S., so the date is January 6, 2010.

We USians would interpret 6/1/2010 as June 1st. (Yeah, I know it's all
silly, innit?)

Indeed it is, and that is why I use ISO 8601 standard dates. Even if
you've never heard of the standard, you're unlikely to guess wrong
about what 2010-01-06 and 2010-06-01 mean.

 

[Stan Brown]

[drivel]
Your propensity, no.. NEED for self aggrandizement is amazing....
I have not "belittled" your enlisted man training in any way. Merely noted
that you
are not a degreed Engineer.

Chris

You may not have been around during the Great Control-H Farrago,
which proved to me that any technical statement made by "BillW50" is
likely to be as fiercely defended as it is wrong headed.

 

[Chris S.]

[drivel]
Your propensity, no.. NEED for self aggrandizement is amazing....
I have not "belittled" your enlisted man training in any way. Merely
noted
that you
are not a degreed Engineer.

Chris

You may not have been around during the Great Control-H Farrago,
which proved to me that any technical statement made by "BillW50" is
likely to be as fiercely defended as it is wrong headed.

Well stated, Stan.

He is a piece of work, isn't he?

Chris

 

[Peter Taylor]

So you think anyone you send email to is "an idiot" if they dare to
read your precious email on their mobile phone. Good luck with that.

I didn't say that.

 

[Char Jackson]

Indeed it is, and that is why I use ISO 8601 standard dates. Even if
you've never heard of the standard, you're unlikely to guess wrong
about what 2010-01-06 and 2010-06-01 mean.

With date formats like that, guessing is exactly what I'd have to do. My
guess is that they refer to year-month-day, which isn't necessarily a bad
way to do it, but it's not at all common and therefore leads to confusion.

 

[BillW50]

Your propensity, no.. NEED for self aggrandizement is amazing....
I have not "belittled" your enlisted man training in any way. Merely
noted that you
are not a degreed Engineer.

Chris

What you think doesn't really matter. What companies like Philips,
Hitachi, Apple, etc. think *does* matter. And the military told us in
class, you are in the best electronic engineering course on the planet.
They also said most of you will never finish the course. And that latter
part was indeed true.

But I wondered about the part about being the best electronic
engineering class in the world? So I volunteered to be tested with a
group of EE grads fresh out of school after I left the military for my
own peace of mind. And I was shocked, most of them had trouble even
biasing a simple transistor to make it work correctly. No wonder
companies will grab a military EE long before a civilian EE (yes many
have told me this). As the vast majority of those with civilian EE
degrees would have never passed the course at all in the military.

I also understand the military's thinking about this. As you can't just
have average or better than average working as electronic engineers. As
you have to have the best and brightest minds working for you to get the
job done. Otherwise lives could be at risk. And if you are not good
enough, they will find a job for you that you are better at. Even if it
is just digging ditches. A civilian EE degree is so much easier to get.
And you don't have to know much to get one either.

 

[BillW50]

[drivel]


Your propensity, no.. NEED for self aggrandizement is amazing....
I have not "belittled" your enlisted man training in any way. Merely
noted
that you
are not a degreed Engineer.

Chris

You may not have been around during the Great Control-H Farrago,
which proved to me that any technical statement made by "BillW50" is
likely to be as fiercely defended as it is wrong headed.

Well stated, Stan.

He is a piece of work, isn't he?

Chris

First, I know nothing about the Great Control-H Farrago. And secondly,
for those of my kind who was willing to protect everybody freedoms, even
if it meant that our own lives had to be sacrificed. Maybe we should
rethink this. And only protect our own kind, and they can do with you
what they wish.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

With date formats like that, guessing is exactly what I'd have to do. My
guess is that they refer to year-month-day, which isn't necessarily a bad
way to do it, but it's not at all common and therefore leads to confusion.

If you put dates on your file names and if you prefer that, when files
are sorted by name, they are also sorted by date, there's no ambiguity.

 

[BillW50]

If you put dates on your file names and if you prefer that, when files
are sorted by name, they are also sorted by date, there's no ambiguity.

Yes even though I live in the US, all of my dates in my filenames are
always YYYY-MM-DD format too. I suppose I could have went with YY-MM-DD
format, but that would have created a Y2K problem, won't it? ;-)

 

[Peter Taylor]

Whether the _sender_ uses broadband is irrelevant. What matters is
whether the _recipient_ does, and whether the recipient has to pay
for bandwidth, as many people do.

I don't cold call clients. They email me and Outlook will automatically
switch to plain text if it receives a plain text message. Out of 100
emails, maybe one is in plain text. I get a lot of HTML messages from
Samsung and iPhones.

As a sender, considering only your own wishes is really pretty
disrespectful of the people you are trying to get to buy from you.

See above.

 

[Peter Taylor]

What you think doesn't really matter. What companies like Philips,
Hitachi, Apple, etc. think *does* matter. And the military told us in
class, you are in the best electronic engineering course on the planet.
They also said most of you will never finish the course. And that latter
part was indeed true.

I guess humility wasn't a part of the course.

 

[BillW50]

I guess humility wasn't a part of the course.

After seeing the such low standards accepted as ok for civilian EE
degrees, do you really to ask?

 

[Chris S.]

After seeing the such low standards accepted as ok for civilian EE
degrees, do you really to ask?

"civilian EE degrees" = Accredited Engineering College Diploma.
Accepted by Professional Associations and Legal definitions.

You are clearly not a graduate EE.

But your ceaseless self aggrandizement is somewhat humorous.

Chris

 

[Stan Brown]

I didn't say that.

Um .... okayyyyyyyy.

 

[BillW50]

"civilian EE degrees" = Accredited Engineering College Diploma.
Accepted by Professional Associations and Legal definitions.

You are clearly not a graduate EE.

No, I am not! I am a graduate from the toughest EE course in the world.
And I need to make no apology for.

But your ceaseless self aggrandizement is somewhat humorous.

Ok sissy Chrisy, whatever you say.

 

[Char Jackson]

If you put dates on your file names and if you prefer that, when files
are sorted by name, they are also sorted by date, there's no ambiguity.

That's actually the only time I've ever used that date format, and I made
sure no one would be dealing with the files but me. If someone else would
have been involved along with me, I would have avoided it.

When other people are involved, I prefer to simply add a leading sequence
number using a tool like the excellent (and free) Bulk Rename Utility.
<http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php>

In fact, since becoming acquainted with BRU, I would never go back to
manually adding the date to the filename.

 

[Char Jackson]

Yes even though I live in the US, all of my dates in my filenames are
always YYYY-MM-DD format too. I suppose I could have went with YY-MM-DD
format, but that would have created a Y2K problem, won't it? ;-)

No, it wouldn't have created a Y2K problem. I'm surprised that you'd even
suggest that.