Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative

On 07/18/2015 11:54 AM, charles meyer wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> You’re most welcome.
>
> I think many Windows users are married to old verbiage they heard
> years ago (some unfounded) about how you’ll need to learn to code or
> have to learn language like the old DOS to make Linux work and so
> propelled by fear they remain with Windows.
>
> I’m looking forward to all the good work and advancement Eric (on this
> list) makes with his foray into voice recognition but can you or Gary
> on this list or others recommend any Linux-based voice recognition?
>
> Nuance has dragged their heels in so many ways including developing
> voice recognition for more than one voice at a time so I don’t feel
> like I can count on them to offer a Linux-based version by 2020 when
> MS is supposed to end W7 support.
>
> Thanks for disabusing readers of their “Linux-fear” in your article
> and for your and others voice recognition recommendations.
>
> Charles.

I started with computers when punch-cards were still common and 
computers smaller than a refrigerator was not.

I wished I still remembered all the programming skills I have back then 
[but that ended with the strokes].  Users are pampered with a GUI and 
other "modern" items on their really small sized systems, compared to 
what I started working with.  You try writing a general ledger 
accounting system from scratch in COBOL and then tell me that people do 
not have it so easy now.  Well, at least if you do not have to do the 
GUI programming from scratch instead of using templates, or needing to 
do AI work withing a game environment.  But the basic business stuff was 
much harder to produce back then when colored printing, or even 
graphical printing, from a low to middle environment business computer 
was not available at all.  I was programming computers for over a decade 
before I ever saw a colored printer, let alone afford one.



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