Are you suggesting that Commerce should not be allowed to be online only? Ever heard the term E-commerce?.com is an unrestricted domain there are no rules for what it should be used for not one of my websites has an off net existence, Why should they?
A while back I worte an email to a fellow programmer whom I never before emailed. His email system automatically replied asking that I confirm my message was from a person by answering a bran dead simple question. By replying appropriately I was white listed and he got my original message. I get 5 or 6 of those a month from people I never emailed, I report them all as spam.
Really, submitter posted this story 5 days too early.
But seriously this just means Comcast is going to work with the bittorrent folks to put tighter than ever controls in place. They'll shape traffic to prefer the comcast servers and peers to those same peers or any others talking to non-comcast servers. They way they can claim to be embracing p2p traffic while actually throttling anything they don't like. I wonder if the MPAA will have a server. This just makes it easyer to monitor bittorrent users so they can be sued.
Anyways, flying cars are a stupid idea. Three dimensional traffic would be a major headache, just ask a flight controller how they would feel about adding several billion more vehicles to the sky in order to make flying cars ubiquitous.
If only we could invent some sort of thinking machine to rapidly process more information than the human mind could ever handle!?
Transportation really needs to move into 3 dimensions, it's the only way to resolve congestion. Being stuck in 2 dimensions is just causing a lot of congestion and is too dangerous.
Most people can't drive in 2 Dimensions so I fail to see how adding a 3rd is going to help.
The notion of centralized control is way off. Each car (as it is now with human drivers) needs to be aware of its surroundings and behave properly in an orderly swarm fashion. Why? We have none of those things now and the roads still work.
I think what he meant (although far less eloquently than it could have been put) is that you can't really make a statement regarding the ability of various software to open OOXML documents when you have expressed a complete ignorance to all products which are not the ones you use.
And for the record, OpenOffice.org 3 Alpha can natively open, read and save OOXML. I don't see what that has to do with my posts
How does OpenOffice use OOXML? Did they reverse engineer it?.odf doesn't need any reverse engineering.
which (i assume) was paid vs. paid. this is going to be paid vs. free. question being : will "available everywhere*, but pay for" win over "available in many places, but free"? More like Tracked vs Anonymous
OOXML cant kill ODF, because ODF is open, and OOXML isnt.People who want to guarantee access to their documents in perpetuity (eg legitimate governments) cannot use OOXML because it cannot meet their needs. It is full of rabbit holes.
It may take a while for the smoke and mirrors to clear, but in the end, the truth will out.
I love the way Microsoft use the words "Office" and "Open" to try and fool people into thinking that OOXML is going to be an open standard.
If Microsoft wanted an Open standard as they want people to believe they would just contribute to ODF.
dude I want to come clean "karma and all" I was moding you informative and clicked on redundant!!!:( sorry... why the hell slashdot made it auto-change I don't know? so hopefully posting this will undo may damage and clear all my mods on this topic!;) Ive done that before aswell.
Don't worry that post wiped any mods you have made for this article. Slashdot won't let people post AND mod in the same article.
Well, if you are signing up for a network management seminar, or something of the like, then you might also be the person that gets abuse@yourcompany.com, admin@yourcompany.com, it@yourcompany.com and a host of other generic email addresses. So perhaps you don't want them to even have your domain name? Good point but you probably don't want someone getting your sensitive email either.
Id make allot of them public for all to see that might educate a few people I would be especially careful to ensure the security vulnerabilities one was made public.
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Ok no need to have your PMS.
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Going by your opinion name me a SINGLE website that has only virtual existance.
I fail to see why my blog shouldent be
Are you suggesting that Commerce should not be allowed to be online only? .com is an unrestricted domain there are no rules for what it should be used for not one of my websites has an off net existence, Why should they?
Ever heard the term E-commerce?
~Dan
None of my domains/sites are for profit I don't even place ads on them.
~Dan
Doesn't work from Australia looks like Bit torrent is still the way to go.
~Dan
I know how they feel.
I get really sick of having to download illegally too.
But seriously this just means Comcast is going to work with the bittorrent folks
to put tighter than ever controls in place. They'll shape traffic to prefer the comcast
servers and peers to those same peers or any others talking to non-comcast servers.
They way they can claim to be embracing p2p traffic while actually throttling anything
they don't like. I wonder if the MPAA will have a server.
This just makes it easyer to monitor bittorrent users so they can be sued.
~Dan
If only we could invent some sort of thinking machine to rapidly process more information than the human mind could ever handle!?
Most people can't drive in 2 Dimensions so I fail to see how adding a 3rd is going to help.Transportation really needs to move into 3 dimensions, it's the only way to resolve congestion. Being stuck in 2 dimensions is just causing a lot of congestion and is too dangerous.
~Dan
~Dan
Christians and Jews are boring.
If you don't get a reaction then there is less need to exercise freedom of speech since the offended parties are more accepting.
~Dan
And for the record, OpenOffice.org 3 Alpha can natively open, read and save OOXML. I don't see what that has to do with my posts
How does OpenOffice use OOXML?
Did they reverse engineer it?
~Dan
It's not new these people are just behind the times. (A long way behind)
wow Instead of hiding like a child while you throw insults perhaps you can explain why my opinion is worthless....
can you?
the Irony of your last post is... Well I don't want to confuse you any further.
That's not a bad idea if they give me legal protection I can stop using my neighbours wifi for unlawful activities.
~Dan
Why should I share my connection with people who pay nothing for it? They are the ones who are stingy.
~Dan
wow I got -1 troll for disagreeing with myself, A new accomplishment
~Dan
I'm shocked to find out that Pages, Numbers, and TextEdit on my Mac, not to mention my iPhone, are Microsoft products.
Are you alright?And when did Microsoft acquire Thinkfree Office? Dataviz? Intergen? NeoOffice? Zoho Writer?
No Idea, I use OpenOffice I don't don't have time to keep up with everything that doesn't affect me directly.~Dan
Can you give your definition of "open"?
OOXML is not open because only Microsoft products can open it by design.Where as my
~Dan
I love the way Microsoft use the words "Office" and "Open" to try and fool people into thinking that OOXML is going to be an open standard.It may take a while for the smoke and mirrors to clear, but in the end, the truth will out.
If Microsoft wanted an Open standard as they want people to believe they would just contribute to ODF.
~Dan
mods on this topic!
Don't worry that post wiped any mods you have made for this article.
Slashdot won't let people post AND mod in the same article.
~Dan
I think Moron@localhost would be better suited.
~Dan
Id make allot of them public for all to see that might educate a few people I would be especially careful to ensure the security vulnerabilities one was made public.
~Dan