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OOXML's 662 Resolutions
Rob Isn't Weird writes "Microsoft has finally responded to the resolutions concerning OOXML (or 662 of them at any rate). The only problem? The JTC1 NBs who are deciding OOXML's fate have to download 662 individual PDFs from a slow, password-protected server; and many have had trouble getting the password. Don't misunderstand the ECMA's intent, though: there would have been 662 OOXML files if they had wanted to make it hard for people to read and criticize the responses. Thanks to the Internet, other interested parties have put all 662 resolutions online in a searchable, taggable format and are requesting that everyone interested help examine them. That means you, Slashdot."
First Post. Bitches.
This is probably, like, thrid post or so.
I for one won't be wasting their bandwidth. I neither care nor am interested.
Considering they (well, they weren't speaking Spanish, at the time, obviously) invented the zero long before the Arabs (who also weren't Anglo-tongued), had a unique numeric form of writing tied to binary patterns in knots, amassed large centrally-managed empires based on such accounting, and as well developed the "long count" calendar, I wasn't all that surprised.
That was, until 90-97% (depending on who you ask) died of disease their immune systems couldn't handle (due to a lack of genetic biodiversity in their t-cell structures) and were conquered by the Spanish as a result of the ensuing mass death (guns and steel didn't help much more than the horses -- the native's slings were more lethal than guns alone, and Cortez' men abandoned the metal armor for cotton armor the locals developed as soon as they saw the craftmanship). Moreover, the inhabitants of the Andes developed built-up civilization long before Sumer. The Yucatan Indians also developed Maize through hybridization and selection pressure, which combined with beans and squash, provided self-replenishing soil and fed (at heights) millions of inhabitants, going back thousands of years.
How quaint, yes. Somehow related to being now Spanish speaking? Not really.
if you don't like somebody's reply to an offtopic/hijacking/flamebait post, the best thing to do is to rate it "overrated", that way it doesn't go into moderation as an offtopic post, because, well, it was on the hijacked topic. That's the beauty of threading, isn't it -- topics can change.
Overrated simply means, relative to its current score, it's not something somebody browsing at what it's currently scored at would expect.
I "think" that's what the offtopic moderator wanted to say. Or they just got confused because my reply showed up underneath another topic such that the only way you can tell it's really a reply to a different topic was that there were double angle-lines that are easy to miss.
You can also choose not to read it instead of moderating. Perhaps there should be an option to hide all children modded-down topics in slashcode.