Adobe has always said there'll be a Linux version of AIR. I've got several Adobe evangelists on record stating that going back to the original AIR announcement a year ago - and as it's built on Tamarind and WebKit no one should be surprised.
I was down in the ATLAS experiment cave last week, and saw the detector. It's a massive piece of equipment, nearly filling a cavern that could contain the Notre Dame cathedral.
The magnets generate a field of 0.5 Tesla (not as much as the magnets that manage the beam, but still pretty hefty!).
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You might try downloading the Office 2003 content developers kit. There you'll find the WordML Schema...
Also - how can MS provide XSLT for arbitarary conversions? You don't really seem to understand how XML transforms actually work. You'll always need to design your own transforms...
This is the user schema support we're talking about here - which allows users to build Word templates from XML schema and then use them to save schema-compliant XML from documents. This is only being included in the professional and enterprise SKUs, not the home and SME SKUs.
User schema aren't really suitable for home and SME users - it's the sort of thing you need if you're dumping XML output into enterprise applications, and want your data entry folk to use their usual Office applications.
For XML transfer WordML is still supported in all SKUs, which is defined by a schema at a specific URI, so it will validate in most parsers.
What will be much more interesting will be uderstanding the pricing for InfoPath...
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It wil do exactly what you want - as long as there is an XSD for the XML you want to create.
What Word 2003 will do is allow an end user to map schema elements to word formatting 9in much the same way as templates are produced in earlier versions), so that they just produce a document using familiar techniques - then click "save as data", and just produce Schema compliant XML.
Tools like thus are just another route to the semantic web that Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C are driving towards. Half an implementation perhaps, but take a look at the W3C specifications for Annotea and have a think...
Oh, and then pick up a copy of Dream Machines and think about what a full implementation of Xanadu would have been like...
Tools like this and Smart Tags are part of the past and the future of the web. The one way design driven web will be seen as just a stop gap on the road to a fully interactive two way communications system.
Perhaps MS pulled Smart Tags in favour of a W3C compliant Annotea implementation;-)
I think you will find that this is not Ruby the scripting language, but instead the concept of ruby text, used in the formatting of eastern languages and in complex run-on formatting.
From the reference document in the XHTML recommendation: "Ruby" are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification defines markup for ruby, in the form of an XHTML module
In the UK the Engineering Council (made up of the main technical professional bodies) is an important tool in drafting legislation and in putting forward the views of its members to employers. It also handles certification and regulation of its members.
The key to getting something out of a professional body is to put something in. Apathy is all very well, but it doesn't get things done. May I respectively suggest actually joining the relevant body for your chosen career (I'd guess the BCS from your posting, or the IEE), and get involved.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the obvious alternative: professional bodies. Programming and other IT related careers are considered professions, and have related standards setting bodies that do have significant power - often at a far higher level than Unions.
While many people see instutions like the IEEE and the ACM or the BCS as academic organisations, they're often as not actually working at a policy level with governments and large companies. They write legislation, and manage its implementation, set professional standards exams that mean something - and give technologists a workable career path that doesn't involve management.
So get involved with the relevant professional bodies, get a real certification, and see what that does to your job security and conditions...
As an aside to Voyage, Stephen Baxter collaborated with UK space engineer Simon Bradshaw on a short story about an Anglo-Australian manned launch from Woomera.
http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/baxterium/prosp er o.html
2.5G only adds packet-based data to the existing voice services. Already congested voice spectrum will not be yielded to data services - for example GPRS will back off to a single time slot.
The first large scale 3G implementations will be in the Iberian countries. Both Portugal and Spain had beauty contests, with agressive roll out schedules... targetting late 01/early 02 for 80% coverage...
In the UK there's much less urgency - the target is 07 for 80% coverage...
Working with European 3G operators it looks like the key players are going to be different from the 2G/2.5G market.
Nortel and Siemens are winning a lot of network contracts, and handsets appear to be going to new entrants like Sendo, and the Japanese iMode manufacturers... Mitsubishi is pushing the Mondo very hard.
(And what's most interesting is that the most popular platforms are currently Stinger and Pocket PC - all Microsoft...)
Having tried to run a database mail back-end for an ISP, I can categroically state that this just won't work. You can just about hack it with fixed space storage for users, but once you start deleting mail you're in line for some very interesting table corruption issues... Performance was pretty bad, too.
We ended up porting everything to maildir.
I've since used this format in 2 further projects. One a Hotmail style service for the UK's largest ISP, and the other in a large image storage service. Maildir worked great for both services - handling images just as easily as mail!
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Especially as this is a public forum, and you seem to be revealing early stage business plans...
The results of this post, if you're doing this without permission from her or her managers are likely to be that this won't happen now at all, thanks to your publishing it to several hundred thousand people around the world.
I'm sure the non-profits will be really grateful not to get anything now..
UMTS is definitely packet switched. I've worked on both European and Far East 3G service development, and *everything* we're developing is intended for a packet switched environment...
Dave Langford, writer, critic and journalist has been commenting on his Hugo wins online for years... Maybe not on the web, but certainly in Usenet and on conferencing services.
I suggest you take a look at the European Convention of Human Rights, which overrides national law in pretty much every nation in the EU - including the UK - and then re-evaluate what you wrote.
There is no need for national level bills of rights in Europe.
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Adobe has always said there'll be a Linux version of AIR. I've got several Adobe evangelists on record stating that going back to the original AIR announcement a year ago - and as it's built on Tamarind and WebKit no one should be surprised.
I was down in the ATLAS experiment cave last week, and saw the detector. It's a massive piece of equipment, nearly filling a cavern that could contain the Notre Dame cathedral.
The magnets generate a field of 0.5 Tesla (not as much as the magnets that manage the beam, but still pretty hefty!).
The book has a site at http://www.digitalretro.co.uk.
You might try downloading the Office 2003 content developers kit. There you'll find the WordML Schema...
Also - how can MS provide XSLT for arbitarary conversions? You don't really seem to understand how XML transforms actually work. You'll always need to design your own transforms...
This is the user schema support we're talking about here - which allows users to build Word templates from XML schema and then use them to save schema-compliant XML from documents. This is only being included in the professional and enterprise SKUs, not the home and SME SKUs.
User schema aren't really suitable for home and SME users - it's the sort of thing you need if you're dumping XML output into enterprise applications, and want your data entry folk to use their usual Office applications.
For XML transfer WordML is still supported in all SKUs, which is defined by a schema at a specific URI, so it will validate in most parsers.
What will be much more interesting will be uderstanding the pricing for InfoPath...
It wil do exactly what you want - as long as there is an XSD for the XML you want to create.
What Word 2003 will do is allow an end user to map schema elements to word formatting 9in much the same way as templates are produced in earlier versions), so that they just produce a document using familiar techniques - then click "save as data", and just produce Schema compliant XML.
Tools like thus are just another route to the semantic web that Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C are driving towards. Half an implementation perhaps, but take a look at the W3C specifications for Annotea and have a think...
;-)
http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
Oh, and then pick up a copy of Dream Machines and think about what a full implementation of Xanadu would have been like...
Tools like this and Smart Tags are part of the past and the future of the web. The one way design driven web will be seen as just a stop gap on the road to a fully interactive two way communications system.
Perhaps MS pulled Smart Tags in favour of a W3C compliant Annotea implementation
S.
I think you will find that this is not Ruby the scripting language, but instead the concept of ruby text, used in the formatting of eastern languages and in complex run-on formatting.
From the reference document in the XHTML recommendation: "Ruby" are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification defines markup for ruby, in the form of an XHTML module
See the following URL http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-ruby-20010531/ for more details.
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Fortunately for the rest of us that is untrue.
In the UK the Engineering Council (made up of the main technical professional bodies) is an important tool in drafting legislation and in putting forward the views of its members to employers. It also handles certification and regulation of its members.
The key to getting something out of a professional body is to put something in. Apathy is all very well, but it doesn't get things done. May I respectively suggest actually joining the relevant body for your chosen career (I'd guess the BCS from your posting, or the IEE), and get involved.
S.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the obvious alternative: professional bodies. Programming and other IT related careers are considered professions, and have related standards setting bodies that do have significant power - often at a far higher level than Unions.
While many people see instutions like the IEEE and the ACM or the BCS as academic organisations, they're often as not actually working at a policy level with governments and large companies. They write legislation, and manage its implementation, set professional standards exams that mean something - and give technologists a workable career path that doesn't involve management.
So get involved with the relevant professional bodies, get a real certification, and see what that does to your job security and conditions...
S. (currently pushing for his C.Eng)
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As an aside to Voyage, Stephen Baxter collaborated with UK space engineer Simon Bradshaw on a short story about an Anglo-Australian manned launch from Woomera.
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http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/baxterium/pros
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...remember eWorld?
That was built on the AOL servers and AOL Mac client...
S.
2.5G only adds packet-based data to the existing voice services. Already congested voice spectrum will not be yielded to data services - for example GPRS will back off to a single time slot.
S.
The first large scale 3G implementations will be in the Iberian countries. Both Portugal and Spain had beauty contests, with agressive roll out schedules... targetting late 01/early 02 for 80% coverage...
In the UK there's much less urgency - the target is 07 for 80% coverage...
S.
Working with European 3G operators it looks like the key players are going to be different from the 2G/2.5G market.
Nortel and Siemens are winning a lot of network contracts, and handsets appear to be going to new entrants like Sendo, and the Japanese iMode manufacturers... Mitsubishi is pushing the Mondo very hard.
(And what's most interesting is that the most popular platforms are currently Stinger and Pocket PC - all Microsoft...)
S.
"Fire In The Valley" was the basis of last year's rather fun geek movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley".
Well worth watching. If only for the first scene at the filming of the 1984 commercial...
S.
Having tried to run a database mail back-end for an ISP, I can categroically state that this just won't work. You can just about hack it with fixed space storage for users, but once you start deleting mail you're in line for some very interesting table corruption issues... Performance was pretty bad, too. We ended up porting everything to maildir. I've since used this format in 2 further projects. One a Hotmail style service for the UK's largest ISP, and the other in a large image storage service. Maildir worked great for both services - handling images just as easily as mail! S.
The key thing is the opening of the common language runtime. Especially as the standards committee includes Sun and AOL...
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.NET is built on top of SOAP, UDDI and XML.
.NET common runtime has gone to ECMA, as has C#.
SOAP is a W3C standard, as is UDDI. The
If that's not open standards, then I don't know what is...
S.
Especially as this is a public forum, and you seem to be revealing early stage business plans...
The results of this post, if you're doing this without permission from her or her managers are likely to be that this won't happen now at all, thanks to your publishing it to several hundred thousand people around the world.
I'm sure the non-profits will be really grateful not to get anything now..
S.
UMTS is definitely packet switched. I've worked on both European and Far East 3G service development, and *everything* we're developing is intended for a packet switched environment...
S.
Dave Langford, writer, critic and journalist has been commenting on his Hugo wins online for years... Maybe not on the web, but certainly in Usenet and on conferencing services.
And this year Ansible got another, making 18...
Take a look at Ansible, the best little SF newszine around.
S.
I suggest you take a look at the European Convention of Human Rights, which overrides national law in pretty much every nation in the EU - including the UK - and then re-evaluate what you wrote.
There is no need for national level bills of rights in Europe.
S.
.NET is built around COM - it just exposes a lot of XML based EAI interfaces to allow COM to work with any other component model.
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