[plug] Word97 vs Openoffice

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 17:20, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> Maybe I've done far too many tenders.
> 
> But 250 page tender responses are pretty standard fare in my old job.
> 
> *hint
> 1) govt tenders
> 2) boilerplates.
> 
> Yeah. 25k jobs, unless the other bugger writes a better tender response.
> 
> For what its worth however, a friend of mine has done most of his PHD on a
> palm pilot with a little keyboard.
> 

I do have a palm stow-away keyboard that is fantastic for such
situations but it has a slight problem that sometime it gets a little
unplugged and thinks that the keyboard is really a hotsync cradle and
tries to hotsync.

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> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 28 August 2004 16:01, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > > Chris Caston wrote:
> >
> > > > Perhaps that would explain it. That is one of the other excuses I give
> > > > for avoiding laptops in favour of a decent desktop + well synced PALM
> > > > pda: the speed of the HD.
> >
> > > Perhaps, but you can't spend 12 hours on an aircraft editing a 250 page
> > > proposal or writing code on a PDA, nor can you use it to carry around all
> > > your remote recovery/rescue software/systems.
> >
> > You're *sick*.  A 250-page proposal?  I spend upwards of an hour per
> > page drafting proposals.  Writing a proposal that'd be worth upwards
> > of $25,000 is just stupid.
> >
> > The job would have to be worth at least a million bucks.
> >
> > One can of course write programs on a PDA. One can write 250-page
> > documents on a PDA. One can store gigabytes of recovery software on
> > compact-flash (or microdrive) that plugs into a PDA.
> >
> > > I need a laptop to do what I need to do, and I need a laptop that
> > > will support 12 hours on the go so it can't be a power hungry
> > > desktop replacement that would make OOo acceptably fast.
> >
> > Wait for the Athlon-64 mobile laptops... they can sleep between
> > keystrokes.
> >
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