If you keep the things that are supposed to be human readable as the text within nodes, and move the rest (formatting instructions etc) into attributes, your XML will be much more readable after some simple processing to remove the nodes.
Interestingly, this is exactly one of the "technical flaws" that GrokLaw claims to have found in OpenXML.
Not surprisingly, for a PR puff piece, the article is full of lies. The most egregious is this one, though:
If you are using SMTP (the universal pipe, remember?), you need to know that it doesn't encrypt data/messages.
If you are using POP or IMAP, you need to know that they both require you to send unencrypted authentication (username/password).
In fact, SMTP offers a number of secure alternatives, included TLS within an otherwise unencrypted pipe, or SMTP/SSL on port 463. POP and IMAP both support TLS for 110/143, as well as POP3S/IMAP4S over 995/993, and have not required plain-text login since the introduction of capabilities negotiation more than a decade ago -- both of them support a version of the AUTH verb. (To give you a sense of time, the relevant RFC's were published before Netscape developed SSL v1, back when sending creds over the wire in clear text was completely standard.)
The guy's trying to sell something, but it would help if he could sell things without lying about them.
No, it isn't basically true. There is no "U.S. Court of Appeals", the relevant Court never met en banc, and Microsoft didn't appeal to SCOTUS - the States did. More than that, the question of whether Microsoft was a monopoly wasn't an issue of law, so it wasn't subject to appeal; Jackson's decision would have been final on that except for one, kind of critical fact...
The appellate court remanded the case to the district court with instructions to remove Judge Jackson from the case for misbehavior.
It took me five seconds to find the "four click" process: drop down the menu associated with the search bar, select "find more providers...", click "Google", click "OK".
The first step is the only one which isn't immediate.
Until they changed their accounting practices 2 years ago they were not profitable
Microsoft started reporting its earning with and without options costed against earnings in 1998. Until two years ago, it wasn't legal to report earnings with options allocated as GAAP.
Notice, by the way, that Sun lost $217M this quarter, and tried to blame it on expensing options. Is that what you were confused about?
The money certainly did exist -- essentially, by printing those shares of stock, Sun reduced the value of the part of the company owned by the shareholders.
To take your lemonade stand example, you and I own a lemonade stand. We hire Taco to run it, and, each year, in addition to paying his salary, we issue shares equivalent to 5% of the shares outstanding, and transfer them to him. When we make that transfer, the company dilutes ownership in response to a below-market-value trasaction. Since the company gains no value during that transaction, what has happened is that the shareholders have been charged a sum of money. That charge isn't funny money -- after just a few years, Taco will own a majority of the shares in the company, and you and I will be silent partners, after all. Something needs to reflect the transfer of shareholder value, and that's what the new GAAP rules do.
Yes, just like almost every other company traded on the NYSE.
Umm, well, SUNW has *four* letters. NYSE ticker symbols are at most three letters long, from which you can conclude the SUNK...I mean, SUNW...trades on a different exchange.
Too bad he said just recently that he was "still chugging" and not planning to resign. Kind of makes him loose some credibility.
Not exactly: the thing which made him "loose some credibility" was a $217M quarterly loss immediately after telling investors that the Sun turnaround was going well.
That's why the people who work for MS refer to themselves as "Microsofties". It's really a code phrase for "Microsoft 'E'-s", where "E", of course, stands for "evil".
By reducing the number of failed starts, the cost of each chip falls. By reducing the amount of silicon involved, power demands fall. Both of those reduce the cost of the console.
Remember all those people who said "Artists can depend on ticket and CD sales"? Well, they were right -- the artists can, and will. Tours which used to be subsidized by record sales won't be subsidized any more -- and the price of tickets will rise. Signings will follow the sports collectible model, and artists will sell signatures on albums for $50 a pop. Etc., etc., etc.
Remember the old saying "be careful what you ask for?" Well...be careful what you ask for.
Oh, I don't know? Because Windows has had a full standards-based implementation of ZeroConf for...oh...seven years, so Apple can finally bring a partial, somewhat standards compliant implementation of ZeroConf to Windows users who've had it for the best part of a decade?
Nah -- that's SuSe/Novell/Oracle Desktop Linux, or SNOracle Desktop Linux for short. (Which will quickly get renamed "SnorDebacle", after the combined company starts using Debian's technology, too.)
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Yeah, but the Ferrari version offer that unique "split device" exploit of the "too near to object" crash!
In fact, SMTP offers a number of secure alternatives, included TLS within an otherwise unencrypted pipe, or SMTP/SSL on port 463. POP and IMAP both support TLS for 110/143, as well as POP3S/IMAP4S over 995/993, and have not required plain-text login since the introduction of capabilities negotiation more than a decade ago -- both of them support a version of the AUTH verb. (To give you a sense of time, the relevant RFC's were published before Netscape developed SSL v1, back when sending creds over the wire in clear text was completely standard.)
The guy's trying to sell something, but it would help if he could sell things without lying about them.
It'd be quite a "reminder", since it is...err...false? The Supreme Court never ruled on US v. Microsoft.
It took me five seconds to find the "four click" process: drop down the menu associated with the search bar, select "find more providers...", click "Google", click "OK".
The first step is the only one which isn't immediate.
I've got mod points, but I'm giving them up...tell me, mods, should I have moderated the parent as "insightful", "interesting", "funny", or "troll"?
Notice, by the way, that Sun lost $217M this quarter, and tried to blame it on expensing options. Is that what you were confused about?
The IMF which ships as a part of E2K3 SP1 and later works well, and has the advantage of being free with Exchange.
SD cards and similar flash storage devices would not be sharable between Vista and digital cameras.
Umm...you didn't read TFA, did you? This is a Unix->Linus transition. Microsoft wasn't involved in the case at all.
Presumably, Goldstein would like you to also believe that Newspeak word is "minitrue", not "Minitruth". He forgets that the Party is always right.
Hmm. That should read
Minitruth will want to talk to you, friend.
And you look so KEWL talking to a taco...or is it half a frisbee embedded in your head.
The money certainly did exist -- essentially, by printing those shares of stock, Sun reduced the value of the part of the company owned by the shareholders.
To take your lemonade stand example, you and I own a lemonade stand. We hire Taco to run it, and, each year, in addition to paying his salary, we issue shares equivalent to 5% of the shares outstanding, and transfer them to him. When we make that transfer, the company dilutes ownership in response to a below-market-value trasaction. Since the company gains no value during that transaction, what has happened is that the shareholders have been charged a sum of money. That charge isn't funny money -- after just a few years, Taco will own a majority of the shares in the company, and you and I will be silent partners, after all. Something needs to reflect the transfer of shareholder value, and that's what the new GAAP rules do.
He should have said "going into the well".
That's why the people who work for MS refer to themselves as "Microsofties". It's really a code phrase for "Microsoft 'E'-s", where "E", of course, stands for "evil".
By reducing the number of failed starts, the cost of each chip falls. By reducing the amount of silicon involved, power demands fall. Both of those reduce the cost of the console.
Remember all those people who said "Artists can depend on ticket and CD sales"? Well, they were right -- the artists can, and will. Tours which used to be subsidized by record sales won't be subsidized any more -- and the price of tickets will rise. Signings will follow the sports collectible model, and artists will sell signatures on albums for $50 a pop. Etc., etc., etc.
Remember the old saying "be careful what you ask for?" Well...be careful what you ask for.
You mean the one on that page which is marked "coming soon"? The one that's, you know, like, out of stock?
Oh, I don't know? Because Windows has had a full standards-based implementation of ZeroConf for...oh...seven years, so Apple can finally bring a partial, somewhat standards compliant implementation of ZeroConf to Windows users who've had it for the best part of a decade?
Yes. There are the ones whose CLA's start "SOSUUTB!"
Nah -- that's SuSe/Novell/Oracle Desktop Linux, or SNOracle Desktop Linux for short. (Which will quickly get renamed "SnorDebacle", after the combined company starts using Debian's technology, too.)