Access to the MSDN documentation will require a MSDN developer's subscription and a signed NDA. The NDA will of course forbid the use of file format specification in unsecured software. Appropriate copyright, patent and other licensing fees will be required of developers writing commercial software to access the new file format.
All kidding aside, I think any hope about this is misplaced. There will no doubt be numerous restrictions on the use of the format information.
There's also the fact that MS has done quite a bit to document their Office Formats in the past. The major issue is that the documentation differs significantly from the implementations.
In other words, this is a load of marketing, designed to grab a few buzz words so the sales staff can toss around the phrase "Open Format" when necessary.
I don't think it matter except to the religious & bigotted.
Damn straight (No pun intended)
A few years ago one of my friends "Came out" to me. She was clearly nervous and concerned about what my reaction would be. I let her finish her "confession" which was carried out with all the hesitancy and fear one would expect from someone confessing to murder.
She finished. I hugged her and said "I'm flattered that you're comfortable enough with me to share something like that."
There was a pause.
"Is this going to be a problem?" she asked.
"About as big a problem as if you'd told me you're not a natural blond."
Both of them have been killed off by those charged with maintaining the franchise. In the case of Star Wars, it's been milked and killed by it's own creator!
Farscape was killed by the network that aired it.
What's left? Stargate?
Wait, I see something in the distance. It's a small ship, but it's a surviver. The network who financed it's early days tried it's best to kill it, and yet it has arisen from the ashes, rising like Phoenix with a new movie.
Screw Trek. Screw Star Wars. Screw it all. I'm going to bask in the Serenity of a new Sci-Fi franchise.
Book me a passage on a Firefly. The Brown Coats are calling.
You're right. Now that I take a look, I've got say it's a piss poor job at trying to fake additional pics.
The two pictures you mentioned do stand out very glaringly as having been added to the photo collection at a different time, and it's pretty clear that they're different women.
All it really tells us is the guy who put together the collection had a thing for watching women and man's best friend. This may be a clue as to the real reason the relationship ended. She probably dumped his perverted a**.
It's hard to imagine a scenario where she would have deserved this kind of treatment.
Ah, but I haven't seen the photos aside form a very quick glance at the thumbnails, so I don't know the dispersal of different hair colors and styles within them.
I'm beginning to doubt I want to see them.
Ah Hell, I'm too curious to not take a glance. Got a link?
I for one welcome our Theocratic overlords. Strict, totalitarian control will eliminate the need for social services such as welfare. Charities will no doubt be abolished as helping those whom God has punished is an affront to his divine plan. If God wasn't mad at them, they wouldn't be destitute, now would they?
Don't forget the end of abortion and sex ed classes. We can't have sinful things like that being tossed around in school, now can we?
And who can raise an honest objection to the death penalty being applied to Post dealers and life in prison for drug users? We're cleaning the refuse off the streets after all!
As Ann Coulter said, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
And this voting thing, come ON, how humanist is that? The government exists by divine mandate, not ours. Trying to govern ourselves is presumptuous and an affront to God. I'm glad they've got this whole voting thing ironed out with the electronic voting machines. This way, the godless, pagan humanists can still feel like they're in control, while God's chosen leaders maintain their leadership positions.
I mean, come ON. Can you imagine what would have happened if George W. had been defeated in 2004? I shudder to think what the consequences would have been.
The first industry to make money online was Porn, and I would guess it's still among the largest. You can't change the underlying architecture by ignoring one of the major uses of the existing technology. It'd be like making a new TV standard that didn't have sound.
First, you need to make it cheap and easy to migrate, and make it part of the OS. Want a new Windows machine? Fine. It'll connect to the Internet and Ipv6 transparently, and you won't see the difference.
Second, move all the porn sites to IP v6.
Actually, screw step 1. If you can manage step 2, and keep any new upstarts from taking over the vacated IP v4 porn market, then IP v6 will become the standard within a year. We'll all have a laugh over the contorted and convoluted arguments PHBs with little to no technology understanding will come up with to justify switching their corporate networks to IP v6.
"What do you mean MCP? I have a Frigging MCSE you bastard! I paid a lot of money for those test prep courses."
The damage that can be done in financial circles is astounding. There are a lot of people with more letters before and after their name than IN their name.
And changing a few Ms. to Mrs. or Miss. will cause a whole other slew of issues.
If the first name is androgynous (Like Terry) changing the Mr to Ms or vise versa would also be rather evil.
We all knew from DS9 that stable wormholes just don't happen in nature. That's why the one to the Dominion Empire was so unusual. It was STABLE. Very rare indeed, and it needed the intervention of an alien species to stay intact.
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Access to the MSDN documentation will require a MSDN developer's subscription and a signed NDA. The NDA will of course forbid the use of file format specification in unsecured software. Appropriate copyright, patent and other licensing fees will be required of developers writing commercial software to access the new file format.
All kidding aside, I think any hope about this is misplaced. There will no doubt be numerous restrictions on the use of the format information.
There's also the fact that MS has done quite a bit to document their Office Formats in the past. The major issue is that the documentation differs significantly from the implementations.
In other words, this is a load of marketing, designed to grab a few buzz words so the sales staff can toss around the phrase "Open Format" when necessary.
Sex is great.
You should try it.
It's even better with a partner.
I don't think it matter except to the religious & bigotted.
Damn straight (No pun intended)
A few years ago one of my friends "Came out" to me. She was clearly nervous and concerned about what my reaction would be. I let her finish her "confession" which was carried out with all the hesitancy and fear one would expect from someone confessing to murder.
She finished. I hugged her and said "I'm flattered that you're comfortable enough with me to share something like that."
There was a pause.
"Is this going to be a problem?" she asked.
"About as big a problem as if you'd told me you're not a natural blond."
For some reason she liked this response.
Dr. Who???????
Never heard of him.
Her?
A name like "Who" doesn't really convey much, now does it?
Isn't Dr. Who one of Tin-Tin's side kicks?
Trek is dead.
Star Wars is dead.
Both of them have been killed off by those charged with maintaining the franchise. In the case of Star Wars, it's been milked and killed by it's own creator!
Farscape was killed by the network that aired it.
What's left? Stargate?
Wait, I see something in the distance. It's a small ship, but it's a surviver. The network who financed it's early days tried it's best to kill it, and yet it has arisen from the ashes, rising like Phoenix with a new movie.
Screw Trek. Screw Star Wars. Screw it all. I'm going to bask in the Serenity of a new Sci-Fi franchise.
Book me a passage on a Firefly. The Brown Coats are calling.
Neither.
Unliike you, I tend to avoid trouble BEFORE it's in bed with me.
You can download a copy here.
You're right. Now that I take a look, I've got say it's a piss poor job at trying to fake additional pics.
The two pictures you mentioned do stand out very glaringly as having been added to the photo collection at a different time, and it's pretty clear that they're different women.
All it really tells us is the guy who put together the collection had a thing for watching women and man's best friend. This may be a clue as to the real reason the relationship ended. She probably dumped his perverted a**.
It's hard to imagine a scenario where she would have deserved this kind of treatment.
Ah, but I haven't seen the photos aside form a very quick glance at the thumbnails, so I don't know the dispersal of different hair colors and styles within them.
I'm beginning to doubt I want to see them.
Ah Hell, I'm too curious to not take a glance. Got a link?
When I was 23 I was dating a 45 year old woman.
Let me tell you, older women know more about what they're doing in bed.
That woman's hair doesn't look like the other pictures
Yeah, because women NEVER change their hair.
It's not down.
Yahoo yanked them.
OK kids, here's the deal.
None of these links work.
Yahoo has yanked ALL of them.
Unless someone mirrored them and is posting them elsewhere, you can consider these pics effectively removed from the Internet.
I for one welcome our Theocratic overlords. Strict, totalitarian control will eliminate the need for social services such as welfare. Charities will no doubt be abolished as helping those whom God has punished is an affront to his divine plan. If God wasn't mad at them, they wouldn't be destitute, now would they?
Don't forget the end of abortion and sex ed classes. We can't have sinful things like that being tossed around in school, now can we?
And who can raise an honest objection to the death penalty being applied to Post dealers and life in prison for drug users? We're cleaning the refuse off the streets after all!
As Ann Coulter said, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
And this voting thing, come ON, how humanist is that? The government exists by divine mandate, not ours. Trying to govern ourselves is presumptuous and an affront to God. I'm glad they've got this whole voting thing ironed out with the electronic voting machines. This way, the godless, pagan humanists can still feel like they're in control, while God's chosen leaders maintain their leadership positions.
I mean, come ON. Can you imagine what would have happened if George W. had been defeated in 2004? I shudder to think what the consequences would have been.
Remember, Big Brother is watching you for your own good!
Turning off your a Homeland Security Scanner is in and of itself a terrorist act.
Remember to always have your RealID with you. Individuals traveling without appropriate identification will be detained for questioning.
Funny you should mention that. The article specifically describes a scenario where an overweight passenger could hide a bomb in folds of flab.
The scanners are designed not to penetrate the skin for "safety" concerns.
So noting is stopping it. It just means all the overweight people will probably be flagged and pulled aside for a "random" body cavity search.
Not Found /dist/v1.2/NT/nano-1.2.5.zip was not found on this server.
The requested URL
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.nano-editor.org Port 80
Damn, it's so small, it isn't even there!
In which case IP v6 will NEVER catch on.
I mean NEVER.
The first industry to make money online was Porn, and I would guess it's still among the largest. You can't change the underlying architecture by ignoring one of the major uses of the existing technology. It'd be like making a new TV standard that didn't have sound.
Capin' I cinna milk it anymore!
Damn it Scotty, I need three more prequels!
That one's been done to death. Ho Hilton has a lock on that market.
First, you need to make it cheap and easy to migrate, and make it part of the OS. Want a new Windows machine? Fine. It'll connect to the Internet and Ipv6 transparently, and you won't see the difference.
Second, move all the porn sites to IP v6.
Actually, screw step 1. If you can manage step 2, and keep any new upstarts from taking over the vacated IP v4 porn market, then IP v6 will become the standard within a year. We'll all have a laugh over the contorted and convoluted arguments PHBs with little to no technology understanding will come up with to justify switching their corporate networks to IP v6.
MAC vs. PC is Sooooo 1990's.
Today's war is PC vs. Linux, and Slashdot if the focal point for this cutting edge flame war.
VI vs. Emacs on the other hand... Let's just say some debates never go out of style.
I can see it now:
"What do you mean MCP? I have a Frigging MCSE you bastard! I paid a lot of money for those test prep courses."
The damage that can be done in financial circles is astounding. There are a lot of people with more letters before and after their name than IN their name.
And changing a few Ms. to Mrs. or Miss. will cause a whole other slew of issues.
If the first name is androgynous (Like Terry) changing the Mr to Ms or vise versa would also be rather evil.
Do you rent, live in your Mother's basement, or just sponge off some friends?
We all knew from DS9 that stable wormholes just don't happen in nature. That's why the one to the Dominion Empire was so unusual. It was STABLE. Very rare indeed, and it needed the intervention of an alien species to stay intact.
Why is this considered news?