Note that even Microsoft hasn't actually implemented OOXML. They say it would be implemented as a "converter", a special module that would "permit interoperability" using this hideously ugly XML dump format. I.e. document sharing between Word and OO.O will still be as much a hassle, or even more so, than it has been up until now. Which enforced Microsoft's lock-in policy quite nicely.
I say hideously ugly because there isn't really an OOXML spec as much as three or four sub-specifications [for word-processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and the fourth which I can't remember] that share essentially nothing. OOXML is not _a_ format, but four, and these four share no components except by accident.
Nigga please. Voting records are public, and exactly the thing that e.g. tabloids would use to go after a person they'd get in their sights. That you cannot find the results of that particular vote only tells me that you would need more exercise in travelling the impenetrable labyrinth that is the finnish parliament's website.
For what it's worth, the result of that vote was most social democrats being absent, and members of the cabinet parties voting for. No votes against were cast, precisely because the issue was and continues to be utterly toxic to a politician.
I worry for the Cuban people. It is said that Raul would like to follow China's example in economic "liberalization", i.e. he might end up subjecting the people of Cuba to the same kind of brutal, nominally communist corporate state structure as is present in the China of today.
But I also hope that Raul, or whomever follows Fidel, will instead take plays from Hugo Chavez' book, i.e. steps toward actual democracy that involves the people as democracy should. It's a slim hope, but, well. Chavez does have quite a bit of economic influence around there, what with the oil and all, and a nice trading partner could very well pull Cuba in a more democratic direction.
In neither of these cases will Cuba roll over to US demands. The people would surely revolt.
I should point out that Jyrki Kasvi the finnish MP had a convenient case of the flu on the day of the vote. It appears that even to the green geek hero in the parliament, the child porn excuse is far too toxic to appear as sole dissenter in.
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Just what the _fuck_ are these people on about. "Directing unauthorized viewers at the classified material"?
I guess I now know what too much Tom Clancy will do to a person.
Of course I'm not sarcastic. Would you not buy a used car from someone named "skulgnome"? Hm? Do you have something against gnomes? "Diminutive jews", I heard someone say.
The device I described is of course known as ELECTRORAINIMATOR in the civilized (i.e., non-US) world. It has been the trade secret of my family line for the past four centuries.
Let's build a very large vat. I mean it has to be huge. Then collect lots of rainwater in it, and stick a mechanism that changes outflow into something that can be used to spin a generator. Boom, electrical energy from rain!
Of course this is still just indirect-indirect-indirect solar power, as always. But jeez, do you have to make things so complex by default? Is this the "innovation-promoting" effect of patenting?
But I can't resist bringing up the Slashdot favourite: It's not actually censorship, if it's not being done by the government. Ha ha!
Still, buncha pricks don't realize that their restrictions only apply to subscr... adherents. Ought to fuck off, the lot of them, and find something better to do with their time. Like... study the quran for instance.
Does Slashdot have some kind of a policy against linking to stuff that comes from either The Inquirer or its lesser sister, The Register? I mean, the Inq had plenty of analysis and explanations of the microarchitecture in it too, and that was a day ago. Look, I've even got a link here!
Snubbing something that's perceived as a "tech tabloid" isn't really a good idea these days. If you remember, The Inquirer was first to report on the exploding lithium-ion batteries that ended up costing Sony a pretty penny.
Are they going to get expelled for this? I mean, being visible on the Internet, factually representing your school, that's got to be tantamount to insubordination. Children these days need to be taught the value of respecting authority!
Come on, at least give them a few years' detention. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, is what I always say! Young miscreants such as these cannot be permitted to go unpunished!
Imprisonment until you cough up is equivalent to torture. With the difference that the guy who gets 230VAC to his balls twenty times a day for two weeks has a chance of returning to his job, family and other stuff that's left of his life (albeit with scars and a huge PTSD), compared to the guy who's been in jail for six months and above.
But you know, it does give niggers the strength of ten men!
Is that a chance you're willing to take? An enraged negro with the strength of ten men raping your helpless daughter? Tearing open her intimate bits with his willie, which is spined like that of a tomcat! Having your daughter give birth to a mulatto, becoming unfit for marriage to any proper suitor? Is that a fate you wish visited upon your house?
Call your congressman, tell him to vote YES on the African-American Health Enhancement Bill.
Considering that the brain doesn't get any rest like it's supposed to, on this dope... Will users go utterly batshit nuts from not having slept at the six or eleven day mark? Like speed freaks who've stayed up all week.
What crack are these people smoking? And if I were to get hired to Nokia, would I get some as part of the benefit package (or is it only reserved for position paper writers)?
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You never went to the Soviet Union, did you? Not quite as grim as you envision.
Note that even Microsoft hasn't actually implemented OOXML. They say it would be implemented as a "converter", a special module that would "permit interoperability" using this hideously ugly XML dump format. I.e. document sharing between Word and OO.O will still be as much a hassle, or even more so, than it has been up until now. Which enforced Microsoft's lock-in policy quite nicely.
I say hideously ugly because there isn't really an OOXML spec as much as three or four sub-specifications [for word-processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and the fourth which I can't remember] that share essentially nothing. OOXML is not _a_ format, but four, and these four share no components except by accident.
Up the fuck this one, moderate, do. Prease.
Nigga please. Voting records are public, and exactly the thing that e.g. tabloids would use to go after a person they'd get in their sights. That you cannot find the results of that particular vote only tells me that you would need more exercise in travelling the impenetrable labyrinth that is the finnish parliament's website.
For what it's worth, the result of that vote was most social democrats being absent, and members of the cabinet parties voting for. No votes against were cast, precisely because the issue was and continues to be utterly toxic to a politician.
I worry for the Cuban people. It is said that Raul would like to follow China's example in economic "liberalization", i.e. he might end up subjecting the people of Cuba to the same kind of brutal, nominally communist corporate state structure as is present in the China of today.
But I also hope that Raul, or whomever follows Fidel, will instead take plays from Hugo Chavez' book, i.e. steps toward actual democracy that involves the people as democracy should. It's a slim hope, but, well. Chavez does have quite a bit of economic influence around there, what with the oil and all, and a nice trading partner could very well pull Cuba in a more democratic direction.
In neither of these cases will Cuba roll over to US demands. The people would surely revolt.
Yet the fact remains that he did not vote against the law. Despite the amateur he might seem, he is a politician at heart.
I should point out that Jyrki Kasvi the finnish MP had a convenient case of the flu on the day of the vote. It appears that even to the green geek hero in the parliament, the child porn excuse is far too toxic to appear as sole dissenter in.
Just what the _fuck_ are these people on about. "Directing unauthorized viewers at the classified material"?
I guess I now know what too much Tom Clancy will do to a person.
A security guard's pay is minimal. They're just doing whatever they can to make ends meet.
Of course I'm not sarcastic. Would you not buy a used car from someone named "skulgnome"? Hm? Do you have something against gnomes? "Diminutive jews", I heard someone say.
The device I described is of course known as ELECTRORAINIMATOR in the civilized (i.e., non-US) world. It has been the trade secret of my family line for the past four centuries.
Let's build a very large vat. I mean it has to be huge. Then collect lots of rainwater in it, and stick a mechanism that changes outflow into something that can be used to spin a generator. Boom, electrical energy from rain!
Of course this is still just indirect-indirect-indirect solar power, as always. But jeez, do you have to make things so complex by default? Is this the "innovation-promoting" effect of patenting?
Still, buncha pricks don't realize that their restrictions only apply to subscr... adherents. Ought to fuck off, the lot of them, and find something better to do with their time. Like... study the quran for instance.
But I've got a seven-figure UID. You don't.
Neener neener.
Snubbing something that's perceived as a "tech tabloid" isn't really a good idea these days. If you remember, The Inquirer was first to report on the exploding lithium-ion batteries that ended up costing Sony a pretty penny.
Exempt employees never get paid the difference that they would otherwise make from their overtime hours. This much should be obvious!
Yet it is not at all surprising on Slashdot, where the almighty buck is, for a word, always right.
Come on, at least give them a few years' detention. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, is what I always say! Young miscreants such as these cannot be permitted to go unpunished!
Imprisonment until you cough up is equivalent to torture. With the difference that the guy who gets 230VAC to his balls twenty times a day for two weeks has a chance of returning to his job, family and other stuff that's left of his life (albeit with scars and a huge PTSD), compared to the guy who's been in jail for six months and above.
Oh very well. All yanks today are idiots. There, you happy now?
The Atanasoff-Berry calculator was not programmable. Therefore it was about as much a computer as the punch-card programmable loom.
I am Bender. Please insert girder. (also, your signature has a typo in it.)
Is that a chance you're willing to take? An enraged negro with the strength of ten men raping your helpless daughter? Tearing open her intimate bits with his willie, which is spined like that of a tomcat! Having your daughter give birth to a mulatto, becoming unfit for marriage to any proper suitor? Is that a fate you wish visited upon your house?
Call your congressman, tell him to vote YES on the African-American Health Enhancement Bill.
Look, it's a cripple! Let's throw rocks at him.
I bet I can hit him on the temple and kill him! That's what he gets for being a cripple.
Ha ha!
Considering that the brain doesn't get any rest like it's supposed to, on this dope... Will users go utterly batshit nuts from not having slept at the six or eleven day mark? Like speed freaks who've stayed up all week.
Terrorists!
What crack are these people smoking? And if I were to get hired to Nokia, would I get some as part of the benefit package (or is it only reserved for position paper writers)?