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The Standards Wars and the Sausage Factory
Esther Schindler writes "We all know how important tech standards are. But the making of them is sometimes a particularly ugly process. Years, millions of dollars, and endless arguments are spent arguing about standards. The reason for our fights aren't any different from those that drove Edison and Westinghouse: It's all about who benefits – and profits – from a standard. As just one example, Steven Vaughan-Nichols details the steps it took to approve a networking standard that everyone, everyone knew was needed: 'Take, for example, the long hard road for the now-universal IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi standard. There was nothing new about the multiple-in, multiple-out (MIMO) and channel-bonding techniques when companies start moving from 802.11g to 802.11n in 2003. Yet it wasn't until 2009 that the standard became official.'"
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Hell no. And it's not over now...
In A.D. 2014 ....
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the beta.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Dice: How are you gentlemen !!
Dice: All your site are belong to us.
Dice: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Dice: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Dice: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'classic' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'CLASSIC'.
Captain: For great justice.
well from the comments your CURRENT userbase has the following feelings
What do We want??
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some redesigns come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.
[WAVES]
Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Soulskill? "
what this site will look like in 3 years is a 404 (userbase not found).
Why not update things to have proper Unicode support?? (maybe whitelist known sections??)
Allow the turning OFF of the pics??
Have a setting to SHOW ALL COMMENTS??
Have at most 4 levels of indent (and indent only like a half tab)??
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