Comments on: Academic Rebellion http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mp3man http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html/comment-page-1#comment-112969 mp3man Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:21:30 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html#comment-112969 Almost related is news that Google Mail is to go <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6741797.stm" rel="nofollow">on-campus</a> Almost related is news that Google Mail is to go on-campus

]]> By: Wolke Shee http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html/comment-page-1#comment-112652 Wolke Shee Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:44:06 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html#comment-112652 Science and Nature are asking their contributors to use an old, proprietary version of the Microsoft Office formats instead of the newer, ECMA standardized versions. Why? They haven't adapted their software, yet. Rebellion? I don't think so. Science and Nature are asking their contributors to use an old, proprietary version of the Microsoft Office formats instead of the newer, ECMA standardized versions.

Why? They haven’t adapted their software, yet.
Rebellion? I don’t think so.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html/comment-page-1#comment-112600 David Bradley Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:51:28 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html#comment-112600 Google today announced that it is integrating its <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/12/google-integrates-powerpoint-viewer-into-gmail/" rel="nofollow">Powerpoint viewer into GMail</a>, so you will no longer need to fire up that particular M$ product to view slideshows from your contacts. Google today announced that it is integrating its Powerpoint viewer into GMail, so you will no longer need to fire up that particular M$ product to view slideshows from your contacts.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html/comment-page-1#comment-112120 David Bradley Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:35:13 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html#comment-112120 There are a few issues here. Personal preference, choice, availability, and enforcement of standards by journals. In an ideal world all software would be 100% compatible, the OS would be immaterial, and there would be no malicious programmers or script kiddies. There are a few issues here. Personal preference, choice, availability, and enforcement of standards by journals. In an ideal world all software would be 100% compatible, the OS would be immaterial, and there would be no malicious programmers or script kiddies.

]]> By: Andrew Sun http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html/comment-page-1#comment-112113 Andrew Sun Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:53:07 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/academic-rebellion.html#comment-112113 I can't give up using MS PowerPoint which, only, can produce professional and beautiful slides with so many templates for various topics. I have tried the counterpart product of OpenOffice for half a year but I just cannot bear it any longer. Up till now PowerPoint is the only choice for my weekly presentation in the group. Although other product of the OpenOffice is similarly ugly but I just have some third choices. I use Google Docs for document and spreadsheet editing. They meet 90% of my need. The rest 10% is when I have to make my dissertation which need additional features such as image aligning, hierarchical headings and automatic TOCs, for which MS Word is still my best choice. And I assume that only few people would switch their Word 2003 to 2007, and if they do it is still easy for them to convert the files into earlier version via the Save As dialogue. Another non-MS solution: IE = Firefox, Outlook = Gmail + Google Calendar. I can’t give up using MS PowerPoint which, only, can produce professional and beautiful slides with so many templates for various topics. I have tried the counterpart product of OpenOffice for half a year but I just cannot bear it any longer. Up till now PowerPoint is the only choice for my weekly presentation in the group.
Although other product of the OpenOffice is similarly ugly but I just have some third choices. I use Google Docs for document and spreadsheet editing. They meet 90% of my need. The rest 10% is when I have to make my dissertation which need additional features such as image aligning, hierarchical headings and automatic TOCs, for which MS Word is still my best choice.
And I assume that only few people would switch their Word 2003 to 2007, and if they do it is still easy for them to convert the files into earlier version via the Save As dialogue.
Another non-MS solution: IE = Firefox, Outlook = Gmail + Google Calendar.

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