Thankfully, the brain is analog. Caffeine increases bandwidth. Beer decreases bandwidth while purging a few nodes.
Seriously, though, the situation you describe (brain whiting out and becoming useless) is not too bad a description for epilepsy and seizure disorders, where a grand mal also involves interference followed by GIGO.
The nugget comparing OOXML to HD-DVD is compelling:
*Microsoft could always add support for ODF to their product. Then they would be supporting an ISO standard. Similarly, I assume they are now seriously thinking of adding Blu-ray support to the XBox now that HD DVD failed.
I'm not sure about MS adding Blu-Ray to XBox, but the point is that the document format war has much in common with the high-def disk format war. ODF, for all its faults, is already an international standard. It isn't too hard to support. Sure, it may lack a few important features, but that just makes it easier to support, and XML, as its X implies, is easy to extend. At this point, the question really isn't about whether OOXML also becomes a recognized open standard, but whether MS chooses to support the already-adopted ODF standard natively, or leaves ODF compatibility to third-party plugins.
In many ways, what happens with OOXML is becoming as irrelevant as what happens with HD-DVD. OOXML isn't chopped liver, but BetaMax was better than VHS, and TeX had more features than HTML in 1991. Sure, it would be really cool if both MS-Office and OpenOffice supported OOXML, like its cool that they both support RTF and SYLK, but that's ultimately a side issue. This pretense that anything other than ODF will be the lingua-franca is little more than a ruse. The standard is ODF, and the question is whether the 800-pound gorilla will play well with others, or continue growling and pounding its chest while others do its work.
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Good catch, slip-of-the-keyboard. Meant "organic", influenced pharmacologically (caffeine, beer).
Thankfully, the brain is analog. Caffeine increases bandwidth. Beer decreases bandwidth while purging a few nodes. Seriously, though, the situation you describe (brain whiting out and becoming useless) is not too bad a description for epilepsy and seizure disorders, where a grand mal also involves interference followed by GIGO.
Where do you get this misinformation? Rich Internet Applications Anonymous loves downloads. Can't get enough of them. http://riaa.buzztown.org/
Sad, but true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
The nugget comparing OOXML to HD-DVD is compelling:
I'm not sure about MS adding Blu-Ray to XBox, but the point is that the document format war has much in common with the high-def disk format war. ODF, for all its faults, is already an international standard. It isn't too hard to support. Sure, it may lack a few important features, but that just makes it easier to support, and XML, as its X implies, is easy to extend. At this point, the question really isn't about whether OOXML also becomes a recognized open standard, but whether MS chooses to support the already-adopted ODF standard natively, or leaves ODF compatibility to third-party plugins.
In many ways, what happens with OOXML is becoming as irrelevant as what happens with HD-DVD. OOXML isn't chopped liver, but BetaMax was better than VHS, and TeX had more features than HTML in 1991. Sure, it would be really cool if both MS-Office and OpenOffice supported OOXML, like its cool that they both support RTF and SYLK, but that's ultimately a side issue. This pretense that anything other than ODF will be the lingua-franca is little more than a ruse. The standard is ODF, and the question is whether the 800-pound gorilla will play well with others, or continue growling and pounding its chest while others do its work.