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Any surprises in these numbers: per-cent of revenue spent on research of major-majors: [^] ? Spoiler: the number for Apple surprised me.
Graphic link taken from a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, [^] : "The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon," published Jan. 16.
Note: I don't subscribe to WSJ, but, I often can read the full-text of articles; sometimes they limit what they allow me to read, but, there's never any notification of the usual type : "You have reached your limit of ... for the month of ..." fyi: I am almost always hooked up by VPN to a server in the US when I access the site.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I may understood it wrong, but what I've got of it that Apple holds 54% of the mobile market?
Something is very wrong with that number (and probably with all the others) as every site I know of reports an under 15% share for Apple in mobile market...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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perhaps including ipad (vs android tablets).
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Apple IS the leader of tablet market - with ~25%... The math does not fit...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Something is very wrong with that number
Look at the last pie chart, the red and black area are the same while the percentage of the black one is twice the one of the red one.
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Bad GFX design, FB's share's the white chunk at the bottom...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: If you searched for a toaster online in the mid 2000s, Google would probably have taken you to comparison shopping sites such as Nextag. They pioneered features such as showing consumer ratings in search results, how popular a product was and how prices had changed over time, recalls Gary Reback, an antitrust lawyer who represented several competitors against Google.
But when Google launched its own comparison business, Google Shopping, those sites found themselves dropping deeper into Google’s search results. They accused Google of changing its algorithm to favor its own results. The company responded that its algorithm was designed to give customers the results they want. “If consumers don’t like the answer that Google Search provides, they can switch to another search engine with just one click,” Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told Congress in 2011.
I remember sites Nextag. They were universally awful, horridly slow to use, hideously ugly, and better than half the time I made the mistake of clicking a link after their server finally got around to responding I'd get a "We have no partners with an X to sell you" page. I rejoiced as they were slowly buried, initially via ads/etc for commonly available products, then finally dumped for good when all they had left was we can't find it either pages for obscure ones that lingered as cancer in search results for years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It will take some world-class parsing, but if you save the word doc as XML (a SaveAs option) you could convert it. Put hard page-returns so you can identify where you want to break up your pages.
There will much global replacement of elements and attributes, but with the skill you obtain you can make a commercial version for sale (and since it targets a M$ product, every update from them will require buying an update (or subscription) from you!)
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W∴ Balboos wrote: every update from them will require buying an update (or subscription) from you!
That's a great idea.
I've written the app and placed it in the App Store, Google Play and for download via Microsoft Store.
It was easy to do using JavaScript.
Sheesh, I'm already starting to make money. $$$$$$$$$$. 
Thanks.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: you can make a commercial version for sale
But who but him would buy it? 
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Converting to XML may not be necessary. I once created a VBA script to take a 300 page book doc and convert it to HTML format for eBook creation. (Wrapped paragraphs, italics, etc. in 'p,' 'em,' etc tags, then saved the resulting document as text.) Result was clean HTML without any of Office's conversion monstrosities. Did almost everything within Word, and that included table of content and index links. I believe VBA is powerful enough to copy a page to a new document, do the type of processing I did, then save as text with an incrementing number at the end, which would give him the result he is asking for. I doubt an XML approach would be easier, but I could be wrong.
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raddevus wrote: Save a numerous page Word Document as a multiple page HTML document??
Who besides you would ever want to do that? 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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011111100010 wrote: Who besides you would ever want to do that?
Ok...you're probably right, but when technology lets you down you've go to rant. 
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raddevus wrote: but when technology lets you down you've go to rant.
I don't disagree; however, I think what Microsoft has done is awesome. They made all their software programmable so that if you don't like how something works, you can write something better and still use their stuff as a foundation.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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011111100010 wrote: what Microsoft has done is awesome.
011111100010 wrote: made all their software programmable
It is very cool. I've done bits of VBA throughout my career and Excel itself is quite amazing for its power.
But I when you gotta rant, you gotta rant. 
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Have you tried LibreOffice? the documentation says it can do it: Saving and exporting documents as web pages[^] - check about 2/3 of the way down, which looks like it does what you want. (I haven't tried it, I haven't installed any WP on the WookieTab yet)
Wordstar? Hah! The best WP ever: AmiPro. Small footprint, full featured, fast as elephant, very, very user friendly. Pity it was killed by Word and it's inability to read / write Word documents... I still miss it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Have you tried LibreOffice?
I have used it in the past and it has done good things.
I took a look at that document and it looks like it does do exactly what I want.
Thanks very much. 
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I still have my pfs:FirstChoice discs and manual. I don't know why anyone would settle for less than a fully functional Integrated Application Suite -- with communication built in!
Though it sure would be nice to be able to export to XML...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Wordstar? Hah! The best WP ever: AmiPro. Small footprint, full featured, fast as elephant, very, very user friendly. Pity it was killed by Word and it's inability to read / write Word documents... I still miss it.
1ST Word Plus, no other.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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The version I linked to said "File...Send...Create HTML Document".
Which I just tried on V5.3.0.3 and ... it failed. Such is life.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just tried on V5.3.0.3 and ... it failed.
Yeah, I just tried it and it put the entire document in one huge html page and all of the images are set to absolute positioning and are overlapped on each other at the head of the document. 
Such is the life! Oy!!
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Tried a couple of other options and things got worse.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QL10.png[^]
I believe I now know why they removed the functionality in the newer version.
Back to the manual / VBA process I was using to do this. 
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