Comments on: On(line) and Off Again http://tropophilia.com/2008/04/01/online-and-off-again/ the love of change Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jarred http://tropophilia.com/2008/04/01/online-and-off-again/#comment-546 Jarred Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:23:11 +0000 http://tropophilia.com/?p=194#comment-546 Myriam, you understood quite well: this indeed allows you to work on and save documents without having to be online! Google Docs is not as powerful as Word, though I hear it approaches OpenOffice (I've never used it). It's interesting to hear that the university in Tours opts for OpenOffice over MS Word... they don't really like Microsoft over in Europe. :) Google Docs, in my opinion, is best for rough documents that you will not be publishing or turning in to someone else. It's great for taking notes or brainstorming, but not real great for writing reports or theses! But especially if you want to work on document with someone who lives far away, it's a good choice in my book. I'm interested in people don't or wouldn't trust the cloud... is it because you don't like the idea of your data being stored by someone else, or because you're afraid you'll need your data when you're not able to connect to the web, or another reason? Myriam, you understood quite well: this indeed allows you to work on and save documents without having to be online! Google Docs is not as powerful as Word, though I hear it approaches OpenOffice (I’ve never used it). It’s interesting to hear that the university in Tours opts for OpenOffice over MS Word… they don’t really like Microsoft over in Europe. :)

Google Docs, in my opinion, is best for rough documents that you will not be publishing or turning in to someone else. It’s great for taking notes or brainstorming, but not real great for writing reports or theses! But especially if you want to work on document with someone who lives far away, it’s a good choice in my book.

I’m interested in people don’t or wouldn’t trust the cloud… is it because you don’t like the idea of your data being stored by someone else, or because you’re afraid you’ll need your data when you’re not able to connect to the web, or another reason?

]]> By: Myriam http://tropophilia.com/2008/04/01/online-and-off-again/#comment-544 Myriam Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:10:28 +0000 http://tropophilia.com/?p=194#comment-544 I'm not sure I understood all the process... The computer world is close to the jungle for me! Anyway, if I'm not completely wrong the system you described here enables you to save and work on web documents even though you're not online: sounds very interesting and useful for people like me who don't have an easy access to the Internet but I don't think I would trust the cloud. I already don't really trust any computer-linked thing... and Word is almost the only program I master but I have a little problem with it here: in the computer rooms of the university of Tours there isn't Microsoft Office and I just can't read any of the things I have done at home... There is only Open Office, which is very similar but doesn't completely offer all the possibilities of Word, which is thus required for my thesis. I wish there were more compatibility in this huge computer world! I’m not sure I understood all the process… The computer world is close to the jungle for me! Anyway, if I’m not completely wrong the system you described here enables you to save and work on web documents even though you’re not online: sounds very interesting and useful for people like me who don’t have an easy access to the Internet but I don’t think I would trust the cloud. I already don’t really trust any computer-linked thing… and Word is almost the only program I master but I have a little problem with it here: in the computer rooms of the university of Tours there isn’t Microsoft Office and I just can’t read any of the things I have done at home… There is only Open Office, which is very similar but doesn’t completely offer all the possibilities of Word, which is thus required for my thesis. I wish there were more compatibility in this huge computer world!

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