One of the biggest problems with this "standard" is that it specifically allows proprietary add-ons. That's no standard at all. Programs like Ooo.org will still not be able to properly open a Office document because A) you can bet your ass that Microsoft Office will be using any number of proprietary add-ons to the format, thereby screwing up Ooo.org's ability to render it correctly. And B), Microsoft will do like what they ddi with the internet and intentionally render it incorrectly. Since they have the lion's share of the market, this "not to standard" rendering will of course be the standard, and competitors will be forced to guess at how microsoft intentionally broke the standard in order to display Microsoft Office generated OOXML files, or just not display them correctly at all.
When Microsoft was doing this with the web, web developers had to create all kidns of hacks to get their page to display properly in IE, often times breaking the page in Mozilla. The non-techie types, of course, don't blame this on IE, they say that it must be Firefox that doesn't work correctly. It will happen exactly the same way with Ooo.org. It won't be Office that's doing it wrong, it will be blamed by the ignorant on Ooo.org.
I've gone on the record supporting Microsoft before, but OOXML is not one of the times I'll be doing that. This whole thing stinks.
Please. Not to rush to Microsoft's defence and appear a fanboy (as I'm sure people will think anyway), but the shear ammount of variance in hardware that Microsoft has to code for means there are going to be bugs. No matter how tight their QA is, they cannot possibly test on every hardware variant.
Now, they could do what linux does, and just pick and choose what hardware they support, but with their dominant market position, that would probably look bad. Plus, since you have to be a lot less tech savy to run windows than to run linux, linux users are much more likely to know what's in their computer than a windows user.
So, while it's very likely that there are a lot of broken processes at Microsoft (of which Vista is a shining example), I wouldn't say that a buggy patch is indicitive of such.
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If the blurb is to believed, and there are only "hundreds" of complaints about SP3, then this truely is one of the most well written updates any one from any company has ever made.
I was worried when it started showing up on lifehacker and a few other places. Now that's it's been on/. I think it's safe to say it will be ending shortly.
When geeks get this worked up over something like whether or not you can resize a text field and take the mentality of "fine, I'm gonna take my ball and go home". Let's find some bigger issues to get passionate about, like making program installation a more uniform and less painful experience. Or maybe maybe add some GUI wizards to stop new users from having to come face to face with the command line.
I'm not sure about this. I'm just entry level, but I just bought a book to learn PHP. Could it be the difference between a developer who is established and just needs to pick up a few new things here and there, and someone who is less established and needs to learn entire systems?
I for one find that, so long as I am lacking a dual monitor system, it is infinitely easier for me to follow along in a book while typing up sample code than it is to change between multiple windows/desktops.
Hit the nail on the head, even when not using the heart-string tugging example of child porn. If the polive have physical posession of your computer, that means they have already secured a search warrant and have every right to get in to your computer and look through your stuff. And, frankly, they should. There is not a single privacy issue with this tool.
I've always wondered why the automotive industry has not had more people working hard to find ways of rendering broken down vehicles useless. Seriously. If it has leaky hoses or body rot, we should just forcibly remove it from their posession and send it to a scrap yard.
Well, working in IT, the first thing I'd do if I started getting pop ups telling me "you're infected with such and such!" is find out what the hell was doing it and scrub it off my systems.
That's a very common ploy for virus makers to get you to a)pay them for scam antivirus software or b) go download even more malicious software. So, if my computer were infected and on the kraken botnet and I didn't know, I still probably wouldn't know even after your warning. I can hear a lot of "well gee if you get a warning, you should check in to it anyway!" Please. I wouldn't and most other people wouldn't either. An unsolicited, anonymous (or even not, I certainly wouldn't visit any website linked from an unsolicited virus warning) pop up tells you that you have a virus on a very busy day... are you going to look to see if the pop up is telling the truth, or assume it's a virus itself and squash it? Be honest now.
I've never seen a store front that had much more than vga resolution cameras, and police track down people who rob a store all the time. You can pick up a wireless vga resolution color camera with night visionfor a couple hundred bucks from radio shack. Get a couple of those and a multi-input video capture card. Slap a couple large hard drives in to any halfway modern PC, and there you go.
Now just make sure you hide the PC so your evidence doesn't get stolen when your house is broken in to.
why are they called "stealth fighters"? They're actually a tactical bomber, and so far as I know, they don't have any method of attacking another air craft.
Well... the drives have a heatsink on them that bumb them up to 3.25" size. You can take them out, but it will raise the temp on each drive 4-5 degrees C. Plus add the heat from packing them so close together, and I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
Plus, if you take them out of the heatsink, you void the warranty.
I've never seen the point in Raptor drives. This is making me think about getting 1 or 2 (RAIDed) Raptors to use in installing my games and movie files on. Tom's Hardware has a pretty thurough review, and it perorms very well all across the board.
Someone is telling us to stand up for our beliefs?
Seriously people, Ben Stein is doing a service to the scientific community by encouraging critical thinking and making people challenge the status quo. Besides, science is the biggest group-think boys club there is. Just ask anyone who's ever challeneged string theory. There's scant evidence supporting it, there are way too many variations of it to be taken seriously, and anyone who comes up with an alternate theory (see variable gravity theories) is laughed out without anyone even looking at their paper.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that that is exactly the problem!
Were the broadband internet industry truely an industry that redefined itself regularly, then they would find creative solutions for the issues that "plague" them.
People are using too much bandwidth, so the first thing the ISPs do? Start covertly breaking connections between P2P users to eliminate bandwidth usage while yelling and screaming that consumers shouldn't be allowed to use the internet for what consumers want to use it for, and that we should be bound to only approved services. Were it up to the ISPs we'd be viewing the web of 1992 to this day.
Make sure the net stays neutral, and they will be forced to inovate, giving us better services for our money. As it is, the internet is basically Arpanet with fatter pipes.
There will be imperfections, yes. However, an ink jet printer (which I presume this is based on, most machines like this are) is capable of placing femtoliter sized droplets of ink nearly exactly where they're supposed to be.
I can't imagine imperfections would be any more (in fact, probably less) than what you find through traditional manufacuring. And since you keep the original schematic in digital form on your computer, it won't continuously degrade. It will only contain small and perfectly acceptable variances at a molecular level.
They already ran in to this problem with Vista, it's actually one of the chief complaints. Micosoft would have to be stupid to amplify it into a completely modular pay-as-you-go system.
Something tells me, though, that that's just what we'll see.
I forgot. Speak for microsoft and you're going to do nothing but get flamed.
Simply put, there is a huge disparity in ease of use between Microsoft Office 2007 vs Ooo. Microsoft Office wins. The UI, the navigation, everything is more coherant, and better layed out. It's the same with GIMP vs. Photoshop. They're just about the same, but most people still prefer Photoshop because the UI is much better thought out.
Further, businesses do have rights, and if I started talking about how telecoms had the "right" to tap our phones because the government bloody well said they did, I'd be getting similarly flamed. So get past your hatred of "M$" and look at it objectively.
I'd prefer to have seen Microsoft go the way of Standard Oil or "Ma Bell". The problem was, I don't think anyone in the courts at the time really understood the issue.
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One of the biggest problems with this "standard" is that it specifically allows proprietary add-ons. That's no standard at all. Programs like Ooo.org will still not be able to properly open a Office document because A) you can bet your ass that Microsoft Office will be using any number of proprietary add-ons to the format, thereby screwing up Ooo.org's ability to render it correctly. And B), Microsoft will do like what they ddi with the internet and intentionally render it incorrectly. Since they have the lion's share of the market, this "not to standard" rendering will of course be the standard, and competitors will be forced to guess at how microsoft intentionally broke the standard in order to display Microsoft Office generated OOXML files, or just not display them correctly at all.
When Microsoft was doing this with the web, web developers had to create all kidns of hacks to get their page to display properly in IE, often times breaking the page in Mozilla. The non-techie types, of course, don't blame this on IE, they say that it must be Firefox that doesn't work correctly. It will happen exactly the same way with Ooo.org. It won't be Office that's doing it wrong, it will be blamed by the ignorant on Ooo.org.
I've gone on the record supporting Microsoft before, but OOXML is not one of the times I'll be doing that. This whole thing stinks.
Please. Not to rush to Microsoft's defence and appear a fanboy (as I'm sure people will think anyway), but the shear ammount of variance in hardware that Microsoft has to code for means there are going to be bugs. No matter how tight their QA is, they cannot possibly test on every hardware variant.
Now, they could do what linux does, and just pick and choose what hardware they support, but with their dominant market position, that would probably look bad. Plus, since you have to be a lot less tech savy to run windows than to run linux, linux users are much more likely to know what's in their computer than a windows user.
So, while it's very likely that there are a lot of broken processes at Microsoft (of which Vista is a shining example), I wouldn't say that a buggy patch is indicitive of such. )
If the blurb is to believed, and there are only "hundreds" of complaints about SP3, then this truely is one of the most well written updates any one from any company has ever made.
I was worried when it started showing up on lifehacker and a few other places. Now that's it's been on /. I think it's safe to say it will be ending shortly.
Oh well, good while it lasted.
"Death Throws?"
When geeks get this worked up over something like whether or not you can resize a text field and take the mentality of "fine, I'm gonna take my ball and go home". Let's find some bigger issues to get passionate about, like making program installation a more uniform and less painful experience. Or maybe maybe add some GUI wizards to stop new users from having to come face to face with the command line.
I'm not sure about this. I'm just entry level, but I just bought a book to learn PHP. Could it be the difference between a developer who is established and just needs to pick up a few new things here and there, and someone who is less established and needs to learn entire systems?
I for one find that, so long as I am lacking a dual monitor system, it is infinitely easier for me to follow along in a book while typing up sample code than it is to change between multiple windows/desktops.
Hit the nail on the head, even when not using the heart-string tugging example of child porn. If the polive have physical posession of your computer, that means they have already secured a search warrant and have every right to get in to your computer and look through your stuff. And, frankly, they should. There is not a single privacy issue with this tool.
I've always wondered why the automotive industry has not had more people working hard to find ways of rendering broken down vehicles useless. Seriously. If it has leaky hoses or body rot, we should just forcibly remove it from their posession and send it to a scrap yard.
Well, working in IT, the first thing I'd do if I started getting pop ups telling me "you're infected with such and such!" is find out what the hell was doing it and scrub it off my systems.
That's a very common ploy for virus makers to get you to a)pay them for scam antivirus software or b) go download even more malicious software. So, if my computer were infected and on the kraken botnet and I didn't know, I still probably wouldn't know even after your warning. I can hear a lot of "well gee if you get a warning, you should check in to it anyway!" Please. I wouldn't and most other people wouldn't either. An unsolicited, anonymous (or even not, I certainly wouldn't visit any website linked from an unsolicited virus warning) pop up tells you that you have a virus on a very busy day... are you going to look to see if the pop up is telling the truth, or assume it's a virus itself and squash it? Be honest now.
Why do you need a megapixel security camera?
I've never seen a store front that had much more than vga resolution cameras, and police track down people who rob a store all the time. You can pick up a wireless vga resolution color camera with night visionfor a couple hundred bucks from radio shack. Get a couple of those and a multi-input video capture card. Slap a couple large hard drives in to any halfway modern PC, and there you go.
Now just make sure you hide the PC so your evidence doesn't get stolen when your house is broken in to.
why are they called "stealth fighters"? They're actually a tactical bomber, and so far as I know, they don't have any method of attacking another air craft.
Well... the drives have a heatsink on them that bumb them up to 3.25" size. You can take them out, but it will raise the temp on each drive 4-5 degrees C. Plus add the heat from packing them so close together, and I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
Plus, if you take them out of the heatsink, you void the warranty.
I've never seen the point in Raptor drives. This is making me think about getting 1 or 2 (RAIDed) Raptors to use in installing my games and movie files on. Tom's Hardware has a pretty thurough review, and it perorms very well all across the board.
Depending on price, I may go and pick one up.
Someone is challenging us to ask questions?
Someone is telling us to stand up for our beliefs?
Seriously people, Ben Stein is doing a service to the scientific community by encouraging critical thinking and making people challenge the status quo. Besides, science is the biggest group-think boys club there is. Just ask anyone who's ever challeneged string theory. There's scant evidence supporting it, there are way too many variations of it to be taken seriously, and anyone who comes up with an alternate theory (see variable gravity theories) is laughed out without anyone even looking at their paper.
Microsoft debuts baloon made of lead!
In fact, I would go so far as to say that that is exactly the problem!
Were the broadband internet industry truely an industry that redefined itself regularly, then they would find creative solutions for the issues that "plague" them.
People are using too much bandwidth, so the first thing the ISPs do? Start covertly breaking connections between P2P users to eliminate bandwidth usage while yelling and screaming that consumers shouldn't be allowed to use the internet for what consumers want to use it for, and that we should be bound to only approved services. Were it up to the ISPs we'd be viewing the web of 1992 to this day.
Make sure the net stays neutral, and they will be forced to inovate, giving us better services for our money. As it is, the internet is basically Arpanet with fatter pipes.
Think of the children!
Do you know how many people in America live paycheck to paycheck?
Quite a few people have bank balances that hover between the grand total of their most recent paycheck and $0. Or don't they count?
There will be imperfections, yes. However, an ink jet printer (which I presume this is based on, most machines like this are) is capable of placing femtoliter sized droplets of ink nearly exactly where they're supposed to be.
I can't imagine imperfections would be any more (in fact, probably less) than what you find through traditional manufacuring. And since you keep the original schematic in digital form on your computer, it won't continuously degrade. It will only contain small and perfectly acceptable variances at a molecular level.
"could be much more common than we thought". They come in every astronomy news feature in which scientists discover a new anything.
How do we know scientists didn't just get lucky and find the only other solar system similar to ours in the entire universe?
They already ran in to this problem with Vista, it's actually one of the chief complaints. Micosoft would have to be stupid to amplify it into a completely modular pay-as-you-go system.
Something tells me, though, that that's just what we'll see.
I forgot. Speak for microsoft and you're going to do nothing but get flamed.
Simply put, there is a huge disparity in ease of use between Microsoft Office 2007 vs Ooo. Microsoft Office wins. The UI, the navigation, everything is more coherant, and better layed out. It's the same with GIMP vs. Photoshop. They're just about the same, but most people still prefer Photoshop because the UI is much better thought out.
Further, businesses do have rights, and if I started talking about how telecoms had the "right" to tap our phones because the government bloody well said they did, I'd be getting similarly flamed. So get past your hatred of "M$" and look at it objectively.
Do you guys think it will be anything that will help with development of WINE?
I'd prefer to have seen Microsoft go the way of Standard Oil or "Ma Bell". The problem was, I don't think anyone in the courts at the time really understood the issue.