2015-08-21 4:15 GMT+02:00 <jlwallen@monkeypantz.net>:
On 2015-08-20 22:10, toki wrote:On 20/08/15 10:12, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I should get a job writing these kinds of reviewsWhy are you assuming that a human-being wrote the review? It has most of the hallmarks of a bot-written review. EASY MONEY!The days of the paid, professional reviewer are numbered.From one side, are reviews written for gratis across the social media; From the other side, bots are writing reviews; From the third side, content distributors are trying to slash costswherever and whenever possible; I miss the depth of old BYTE! magazine reviews.The primary virtue of BYTE! reviews was that there was a sense of objectivity, in what was rated, and how it was rated. There were a couple of times when the reviewer was trying to say the product was "good", when their own ratings showed that it was bad, and vice-versus. jonathonThought I'd share this. One of my latest open source pieces for TechRepublic about LibreOffice 5.0. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/libreoffice-5-0-the-strongest-release-to-date/ Jack
On the contrary, Jack, comparing the LO UI with that of Windows, most users with whom I've come in contact who don't use these products professionally - your «average user» - find the former far easier to understand and use than the latter. Professional users soon get accustomed to any interface, even one as unintuitive as the infamous MS Office «ribbon», which now also plagues such services as Hotmail (aka Outlook.com) and then find it easy to use, but this is definitely not the case for the average user. Toolbars which make it easy to find what one is looking for are far better than those that hide them under layers of inaccessibility.... Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted