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rays
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Thanks for the lead... Invitation to come and see the real thing in Geneva next week duly posted!
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LemonAid
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:32 am Post subject: |
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Rays,
Very nice post. Just the kind of Real, accurate, Official media announcement that should be made.
and THANK YOU so very much for hosting the NeoOffice Open house. It is very generous of you and your organization.
Thank You, THANK You, THANK YOU! 
Philip (wonders where these GREAT community members come from!  ) |
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jakeOSX
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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sigh. you know i am starting to be a bit worried for the oo.o porting team.
eric is making lots of promises, there is a lot of news. there had better be a product and not just a 'tech demo' people are going to expect at least alpha level downloads soon. |
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LemonAid
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| jakeOSX wrote: | sigh. you know i am starting to be a bit worried for the oo.o porting team.
eric is making lots of promises, there is a lot of news. there had better be a product and not just a 'tech demo' people are going to expect at least alpha level downloads soon. |
Ditto
I hope that new Users expectations are not raised to high. The Mac user crowd tend to have Very High expectations / requirements and it's probably not a good idea to let them get to high! 
I have done end user support for many, many years and I found that's it important to "manage" user expectations. Better to under-promise and over-deliver. 
Whatever happens "I" just want new users to be able to access OOo on all platforms - and come away with a good experience!
Philip ( helping the whole OOo Community, one document at a time? ) |
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LemonAid
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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<edit URL from MarWorld to MacObserver>
MacObserver - Same vague OOo/aqua statements as the other news articles.
It's funny to see:
1. People who have NO idea of what efforts are required to port an application like OOo - make ... Wild statements (aka WAG's). There does seem to be more replys that say "if you can do better - you are welcome to try!". Kinda like saying: "Put up, or Shut Up!"
2. That happy Neo users keep responding on these threads that NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua (Beta) is here, now, works, and is getting better all the time.
Philip ( history will provide us with the answers! )
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jakeOSX
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| LemonAid wrote: | MacWorld - Same vague OOo/aqua statements as the other news articles.
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funny. i assume that link went to an article about openoffice.org when you posted it... goes to one about microsoft now. (at least for me) |
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LemonAid
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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ACK,
I swear that it was another OOo/aqua article when I looked at it (found the link on the Mac:porting list.
Do you think that all this ... excitment has overwhelmed my brains?!? 
Sorry, It's MacObserver
Philip ( thinks he has to may tabs open in SeaMonkey!  )
<added - Now the Mac:porting list is discussing putting out a more detailed announcment. Good for them! > |
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OPENSTEP
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Lackluster reporting all aside (which I believe it is all there is since there seems to be no solution in the code for neither printing nor the XOR problem, two of the most difficult to solve) I do wish them luck. It would be nifty to see a CG implementation that has those bugs worked out for which neither Dan nor I could find solutions.
These are tough problems to solve. Granted, Patrick and I have already solved them, but as an engineer I'm always curious in alternative solutions. Who knows...a combination of both approaches may provide an even yet better solution than what we have now (but our approach already faster than snot on Intel Macs, so how much does just removing one layer of indirection in the OS libraries really improve overall performance since function calls are pretty trivial in the overall scheme of things  )
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jakeOSX
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | (but our approach already faster than snot on Intel Macs)
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if that isn't a soundbyte for the wiki, i don't know what is. |
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rays
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| jakeOSX wrote: | | OPENSTEP wrote: | (but our approach already faster than snot on Intel Macs)
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if that isn't a soundbyte for the wiki, i don't know what is. |
NeoOffice 2.0 - faster than snot on Intel Macs
Certainly does have a ring to it. Rather catchy. Might use it in the intro to Ed at our event on Friday. 
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