How exactly do you shield something from an EMP? The same way you shield a room where high-energy equipment is running. If it can keep it in, it can keep it out.
But, OOXML does have more features. Why, there is the "kern italics font as in Word 95" feature. And the "line spacing as displayed in Word 6" feature.
Really, please do read the OOXML standard. It reads like Microsoft putting into words every single quirk their products have ever had, and then knowing that no one else could possibly hope to implement it.
When more and more services are doing it, it becomes "common practice", which becomes "acceptable practice". Google may find someday they want the extra money it would provide.
"Do No Evil" is only as effective as your definition of "evil".
They kind of piss me off, too. It's always a waste of a good device/product. How is that? I thought it was an excellent use of a blender. The blender survived just fine.
Having a deterrent is pretty pointless unless everyone knows that you have it.
You'd think that, but Israel has actually had a policy for a long time of neither confirming nor denying nukes. IIRC, this lets them scare their neighbors, but (amazingly) keeps the UN non-proliferation folks at bay.
That, in of itself, is a form of (dis)information to (mis)lead the enemies to believe that you (do not) have nukes. By making is a point to say that you can neither conform nor deny, it arouses the intended amount of suspicion.
The only downside I see is the removal of natural selection from the process if the cloning becomes wide-spread. Part of life, adaptation and evolution is for new traits to appear, and if successful, will probably survive to the next generation through the natural process.
By cloning one of the dogs, you should end up identical copies. That is the goal of cloning, yes? You might lose out on the next generation of dog who's nose was MORE sensitive.
You would be saving money (maybe, I am wondering how much the scientists are depending on genetic memory), but you lose out on future improvement.
...for companies when Microsoft stops supporting XP? Nothing. Just because M$ stops its support, does NOT mean the OS will stop in its tracks. Companies are still successfully using DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95 and Win 98. These OSes have long been out of support, but in each of their own cases, the task they are accomplishing is probably still be accomplished just as effectively.
I love comics too, that doesn't mean I need a pointless article about them on my "news" site. News for Nerds. Isn't that the motto of Slashdot? Oh, it is, right up there at the top of the page. Comic books are considered pretty nerdy by some.
1)Is this really news?
2)I know a lot of people really enjoy comics and all, and maybe it was a reflection of the USA or something (I don't know. I don't read these comics so maybe I shouldn't be talking), but it's still just a comic and just another twist in a storyline. The creative process will continue on and still produce some kind of literature that the comic's fan base will still love. Comic books should be taken as serious a form of art expression as any book, painting or sculpture. The values displayed, the characters, their flaws and strengths...they are reflections of society and its desires and dreams. Even the most fantastical of the comic books contains truths of human nature that we face every day.
... personally I think it should be approved; once the ECMA and ISO approval is done. You have apparently not read the OOXML standard, or you might think differently on the subject. I have read it. It is has to be one the poorest attempts at a "standard" I have ever seen. It is incredibly complex and obtuse. Go, check it out. Please.
It's true the President has that kind of power, but isn't he supposed to at least try to seem impartial and not at all corrupt?
Are there any stipulations regarding the Presidential use of power at all? Nah. He is a lame-duck President. His approval rating no longer matters. Just as Clinton realized in his last year or two, it didn't matter what wrong you did (or how many interns you groped) when you are on your way out. So, pardon them all. If I were the President, I would have pardoned the prison sentence, but commuted it to 30-months living in the same house as Paris Hilton.
Prince is rich. He is content with his career. He was already in one tizzy with the labels and bolted, which made him more money. He became Prince again, made more money. He already owns his own recording studio. Okay, so he may lose a distributor or two. Prince has never shown himself to care about the NORMAL way of doing things.
I'm not, Microsoft's profits have dwarfed those of Sun and Apple combined and have relied on NOT doing this. Don't you think Microsoft selling PC's without paying themselves any licensing costs is going to have the likes of Dell and HP jumping the Microsoft ship faster than you can blink? Dell and HP cannot afford to jump a ship that forms the basis of their economics. Even if Microsoft were successful, it wouldn't mean that EVERYONE would jump to buying from Microsoft. There is room for many competitors.
You would have to be crazy to promote windows when Microsoft has an inside edge on windows that assures nobody will have a computer that runs as well as those from Microsoft. Microsoft can do anything they want, including intentionally altering windows in ways that will cause it to misbehave on competitor hardware. This is a conflict of interest so glaring that is insane. Microsoft would not hamstring their own OS because they could never hope to compete with the output capability of Dell, et al. Microsoft wants their OS to run EVERYWHERE. They do need another source of income, though. The advent of Vista is proving to Microsoft this very point. Vista is NOT be accepted as widely as Microsoft had wished. Look back at the news that Dell was offering XP again on certain models, because the consumers DEMANDED it.
MS might get away with India... or not if the hardware companies are bright. But if MS takes this very far you will see a great deal more HP and Dell support for Linux and customization of Linux to work perfectly with their own hardware. Why compete for the low-end? Dell and HP have no business trying to sell $400 and $500 PCs. They make greater profits on the $900 and up systems. Microsoft got Zenith to make the PCs for them. Heaven knows that we aren't exactly looking at a great computer, but a cheap one. Cheap PCs made with cheap parts. I feel sorry for the Indians.
Stalked the plains of Peru ?? WTF ? Penguins ?
Hunting what ? Wilder beasts ?
At least the article says that they just 'roamed' the deserts. Look at how surprised Microsoft was of the success of Linux. Stalked is the correct wording. *grin*
This is clearly a case of too many Penguin distros for the ecology to support. Once Mother Nature focused her efforts on few variations, she was able to increase the usage of the remaining distros.
I think it's telling that he was originally gunshy about Linux because of his previous exerience with Fedora and Red Hat. The constant problem (as far as mass adoption goes) with Linux is that there are too many versions running around. It's time to thin the herd.
I completely disagree. There are a lot of problems with Linux, but too many "versions" isn't one of them.
One of the complaints is about USB device support. This distro may have it good, but the next doesn't. If the combined labor of the Linux distros were put behind just a few, this complaint would disappear. It is possible to have too many distros.
Does this administrations track record on transparency and honesty, give you a high degree of confidence in the veracity of that statement? I take every statement spoken by my elected and selected officials with a mountain-sized grain of salt. I figure that everything they say has at least a small grain of truth in it, just not the complete truth. In light of 800 reported hacks, they try to make the reader feel better by saying, "only 12 hacks reported on the classified network", which throws off the folks looking for statements of perfection or secrecy. The DHS loses either way.
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It is as if the fanatics actually believed their OS was so secure it had no security holes.
But, OOXML does have more features. Why, there is the "kern italics font as in Word 95" feature. And the "line spacing as displayed in Word 6" feature.
Really, please do read the OOXML standard. It reads like Microsoft putting into words every single quirk their products have ever had, and then knowing that no one else could possibly hope to implement it.
I presented the following offer to my wife: Diamond Ring...Or a House. I cannot afford both. Choose wisely.
She did. I am blessed with a wife only wanted a silver band.
I am not the typical Slashdotter though. I am probably a 1-percenter (married, kids, hobbies outside of computers)
No, no NO!
loop:
inc 53281
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jmp loop
And how long until Gmail does the same thing?
When more and more services are doing it, it becomes "common practice", which becomes "acceptable practice". Google may find someday they want the extra money it would provide.
"Do No Evil" is only as effective as your definition of "evil".
You'd think that, but Israel has actually had a policy for a long time of neither confirming nor denying nukes. IIRC, this lets them scare their neighbors, but (amazingly) keeps the UN non-proliferation folks at bay.
That, in of itself, is a form of (dis)information to (mis)lead the enemies to believe that you (do not) have nukes. By making is a point to say that you can neither conform nor deny, it arouses the intended amount of suspicion.The only downside I see is the removal of natural selection from the process if the cloning becomes wide-spread. Part of life, adaptation and evolution is for new traits to appear, and if successful, will probably survive to the next generation through the natural process.
By cloning one of the dogs, you should end up identical copies. That is the goal of cloning, yes? You might lose out on the next generation of dog who's nose was MORE sensitive.
You would be saving money (maybe, I am wondering how much the scientists are depending on genetic memory), but you lose out on future improvement.
To paraphrase an old saying:
There are lies, damned lies and benchmarks.
...for companies when Microsoft stops supporting XP? Nothing. Just because M$ stops its support, does NOT mean the OS will stop in its tracks. Companies are still successfully using DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95 and Win 98. These OSes have long been out of support, but in each of their own cases, the task they are accomplishing is probably still be accomplished just as effectively.How about GoogleMail ? geemail.com *grin*
... personally I think it should be approved; once the ECMA and ISO approval is done. You have apparently not read the OOXML standard, or you might think differently on the subject. I have read it. It is has to be one the poorest attempts at a "standard" I have ever seen. It is incredibly complex and obtuse. Go, check it out. Please.Are there any stipulations regarding the Presidential use of power at all? Nah. He is a lame-duck President. His approval rating no longer matters. Just as Clinton realized in his last year or two, it didn't matter what wrong you did (or how many interns you groped) when you are on your way out. So, pardon them all. If I were the President, I would have pardoned the prison sentence, but commuted it to 30-months living in the same house as Paris Hilton.
Prince is rich. He is content with his career. He was already in one tizzy with the labels and bolted, which made him more money. He became Prince again, made more money. He already owns his own recording studio. Okay, so he may lose a distributor or two. Prince has never shown himself to care about the NORMAL way of doing things.
Sun and Apple have made quite a good bit of business with this model. I am more surprised that Microsoft did not try this years ago.
This is clearly a case of too many Penguin distros for the ecology to support. Once Mother Nature focused her efforts on few variations, she was able to increase the usage of the remaining distros.
I completely disagree. There are a lot of problems with Linux, but too many "versions" isn't one of them.
One of the complaints is about USB device support. This distro may have it good, but the next doesn't. If the combined labor of the Linux distros were put behind just a few, this complaint would disappear. It is possible to have too many distros.Seriously, this is a cool thing.
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