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Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality
christian.einfeldt writes "According to open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver, Microsoft will be deprecating certain functionality in its Microsoft Office Open XML specification. Ossendryver says the move is an attempt to quiet critics of the specification in the run up to the crucial February ISO vote. The Microsoft-led industry standards group formally offering OOXML confirms in a 21 December 2007 announcement that issues related to the 'leap year bug', VML, compatibility settings such as 'AutoSpaceLikeWord95' and others will be 'extracted from the main specification and relocated to an independent annex in DIS 29500 for deprecated functionality.'"
Outside this frigid tumble-down shack, dry leaves before the wild winter hurricane fly. Here within, at the corner by the cold hearth rests an empty stool. A crutch without a master stands perched against the wall. These forlorn and lonely objects serve as mute reminders of their deceased owner, *BSD.
This crutch and vacant stool have become orphans, not unlike the now dead *BSD. No longer will *BSD hobble about on its cripple's crutch. Like the empty hearth, and the vacant stool, *BSD lies cold and still. *BSD's corpse, lifeless beneath frozen earth and December snows, will see no more Christmas cheer. No, there will be no Christmas ever again for *BSD, for *BSD is dead.
Goodbye, *BSD. The pain of life forever stilled, sleep for all eternity in that long winter's nap. Fade gently into Earth's frozen bosom where in dreams even cripples walk and blind men see.
Sure, because nobody cares about subtle trolling.
Seriously, the Slashdot moderation feature is there so that a "vocal" minority can hide or boost a comment because they dislike or agree with it respectively. It's a great service for those who prefer other people to do their thinking for them.
Just being pedantic, but it's a 9 trillion dollar debt not deficit, a deficit is government spending less government revenue for a given year.
All your base are belong to Wii.
actually, the deficit is only a few hundred billion per year, about 9 trillion is indeed the debt.
Well as long at it stays in dollars as they are instead of follow the inflation problems that the boomers also made...
By my calculations 9 trillion will be the minimum hourly wage in 2020...
Money is the root of all evil?