This is a total lie. OpenXML is a very human readable format for documents and spreadsheets. It's stored on disk as a zip file, but there' nothing of the "single character tags around binary blobs" in it (except for images).
"CORRECTNESS. You keep using that word, but I do not think you know what it means."
Get your head out of your arrogant ass, idiot. CORRECTNESS means "will work in a user's real environment on his or her real hardware in a real world", not "can be proved to require no more than order big-O of n to the fourth storage locations."
Hint: it does. If you don't understand why, then you have forgotten (or never learned) that a computer program is a tool for achieving a goal, not a goal in itself. If my customer can't use the tool, that's a defect. If he or she can't figure out what is necessary to use to tool, then even that's a defect.
Oh? Really? I have before me a small segment of purely functional Scheme which implements an operator called "lambda". It takes a valid expression, and applies the "lambda" operator to it. Can you tell me how much hardware my customers will need to buy to support this feature (called "Church combinator support", for those of you interested)?
You can't? Gee -- isn't that a bug in the program, open source or not?
I thought that Morris' initial vector was a buffer overflow in SunOS implementation of fingerd? Either way, it amounted to pretty much the same thing -- I walked into my office at a large university and faced a set of FBI alerts.
I got them because some of my department's computer systems ran Windows 3.11. Nobody else on campus had access to the outside world. (To be fair, in '88, it was arguable that we didn't either...)
Windows Media Player works just fine in an ordinary user account. Some people fsck up their installations by putting media files in inaccessible locations -- but WMP 10 works fine.
Hey, the Anonymous sonytroll is back, but now he's burdened by facts. He used to just be able to talk about how the XBox 360 would be/is/was a failure, but now he's got to justify why the P$$$$ will be a success, paper launch and all.
Dude, here's a suggestion. If your company is tying its fortunes to a sinking ship...find a lifeboat.
Those of us who have children who qualify for both kinds of special ed simultaneously might find that comment uneducated. This one of us certainly does.
Notice that I talked about hardware releases, not software releases. I agree with you that this would not be feasible without hardware support. Fine -- hardware support is what consoles are all about.
It looks like it's just another "hack the DVD drive to run copies of games", right? Geez. So it's just a way to run pirated copies, not even a way to build a homebrew system -- and it involves opening up the box and reflashing the firmware? And, of course, it's easy to mitigate; bets on whether the next rev of the 360 checks the DVD firmware signature on boot up?
If Palm was smart they'd be selling black-and-white 68000-based Palms for $30-$50 in every grocery store in the USA, and they'd still own the business... because Microsoft couldn't do that. But, no...Two words: T-100.
Sold like..a lead balloon. Was one of the major factors in Palm's implosion.
Because of the way veal calves are raised. In order to minimize the amount of myosin in the muscle, the calves are raised in very constrained conditions, with limited mobility. Prized veal is almost white, with only the most fragile connective tissue. The meat is flavorful, but meltingly tender.
Bad news, dude. It's not at all hard to work backwards from the Google or Yahoo results to figure out what they're doing -- it's just tedious. You can't buy "hard", but you can buy "tedious". Microsoft is really, really good at tedious.
You should go read the wiki article and learn the history.
The appelate court basically threw the whole case out. It threw out the Section one claims. It upheld the bundling claims, but required the government to actually show net consumer harm -- recall that the DOJ and the states did have to concede that the bundling of IE into Windows had consumer benefits. The court set a high bar for accepting such a claim.
Basically, the US looked at the resulting mess, and said "Fooey. We can't get anything out of this." The states, for the most part, said "Fooey. Well, we can get some money out of this." Massachusetts said "We're going to keep fighting this." Reilly got his head handed to them by the District court.
Foie gras and veal are great rabble rousers, and, I confess, I don't eat either of them. However, the reasons behind their emergence as foodstuffs challenge the usual presentation of them as "wanton cruelty in action".
Veal arose as a foodstuff because raising male cattle was considered wasteful. Female dairy cows were kept as milk-producers, of course, but keeping a male bull was cruel and wasteful if it was not going to be bred. The modern practice of gelding them to increase fat production is also cruel and wasteful, but steers don't fight one another. Bulls do, and the fights result in unnecessary injuries. Thus, all the animals were slaughtered except for one which was kept for breeding.
The result? Veal.
Similarly, foie gras arose from the feeding of male geese to fatten them for slaughter. Again, you can argue that slaughter is intrinsically cruel; as an omnivore, I'll respectfully disagree. It turns out that the liver of any fattened bird is particuarly luscious, and the net result is foie gras.
The report you point to suggests the Salton Sea, which is a large, accidentally created, body of salt water, replenished by the Colorado River. The nice thing about using land in the Mojave is that the land in question is not currently used for agriculture -- it is, after all, a desert -- and so wouldn't be taken out of production.
There's no duty to warn a trespasser, even in New York State. Criminal trespass is illegal. Demonstration on private property without a license is illegal, both because of the lack of a parade permit and because of the criminal trespass statues.
[To answer a common misconception, you don't need a message to engage in an illegal demonstration. In fact, the basic tenet of the First Amendment right to assemble means that a regulation which bans assemblies cannot have anything to do with their content, and must merely be concerned with the orderly conduct of society.]
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This is a total lie. OpenXML is a very human readable format for documents and spreadsheets. It's stored on disk as a zip file, but there' nothing of the "single character tags around binary blobs" in it (except for images).
Insightful, my ass.
"CORRECTNESS. You keep using that word, but I do not think you know what it means."
Get your head out of your arrogant ass, idiot. CORRECTNESS means "will work in a user's real environment on his or her real hardware in a real world", not "can be proved to require no more than order big-O of n to the fourth storage locations."
Hint: it does. If you don't understand why, then you have forgotten (or never learned) that a computer program is a tool for achieving a goal, not a goal in itself. If my customer can't use the tool, that's a defect. If he or she can't figure out what is necessary to use to tool, then even that's a defect.
You can't? Gee -- isn't that a bug in the program, open source or not?
Well, no, actually, water is the color of the sky, and the sky is...grey.
(Hey, I'm in Seattle. What did you expect?)
I thought that Morris' initial vector was a buffer overflow in SunOS implementation of fingerd? Either way, it amounted to pretty much the same thing -- I walked into my office at a large university and faced a set of FBI alerts.
I got them because some of my department's computer systems ran Windows 3.11. Nobody else on campus had access to the outside world. (To be fair, in '88, it was arguable that we didn't either...)
Windows Media Player works just fine in an ordinary user account. Some people fsck up their installations by putting media files in inaccessible locations -- but WMP 10 works fine.
No -- Microsoft would have shipped between 500 and 700 K units in April, just like they said.
Oops. Here, $onyTroll, let me help you back up. Must feel bad to keep tripping over your lies like that.
Hey, the Anonymous sonytroll is back, but now he's burdened by facts. He used to just be able to talk about how the XBox 360 would be/is/was a failure, but now he's got to justify why the P$$$$ will be a success, paper launch and all.
Dude, here's a suggestion. If your company is tying its fortunes to a sinking ship...find a lifeboat.
Those of us who have children who qualify for both kinds of special ed simultaneously might find that comment uneducated. This one of us certainly does.
Notice that I talked about hardware releases, not software releases. I agree with you that this would not be feasible without hardware support. Fine -- hardware support is what consoles are all about.
Yeah, but it's tough to pull off the logic Nazi pose with phat phingers...
Thanks; you're right, it's "assuming the consequent".
It is a classical logical fallacy: assuming the consequence.
It looks like it's just another "hack the DVD drive to run copies of games", right? Geez. So it's just a way to run pirated copies, not even a way to build a homebrew system -- and it involves opening up the box and reflashing the firmware? And, of course, it's easy to mitigate; bets on whether the next rev of the 360 checks the DVD firmware signature on boot up?
If Palm was smart they'd be selling black-and-white 68000-based Palms for $30-$50 in every grocery store in the USA, and they'd still own the business... because Microsoft couldn't do that. But, no...Two words: T-100.
Sold like..a lead balloon. Was one of the major factors in Palm's implosion.
Because of the way veal calves are raised. In order to minimize the amount of myosin in the muscle, the calves are raised in very constrained conditions, with limited mobility. Prized veal is almost white, with only the most fragile connective tissue. The meat is flavorful, but meltingly tender.
Bad news, dude. It's not at all hard to work backwards from the Google or Yahoo results to figure out what they're doing -- it's just tedious. You can't buy "hard", but you can buy "tedious". Microsoft is really, really good at tedious.
You should go read the wiki article and learn the history.
The appelate court basically threw the whole case out. It threw out the Section one claims. It upheld the bundling claims, but required the government to actually show net consumer harm -- recall that the DOJ and the states did have to concede that the bundling of IE into Windows had consumer benefits. The court set a high bar for accepting such a claim.
Basically, the US looked at the resulting mess, and said "Fooey. We can't get anything out of this." The states, for the most part, said "Fooey. Well, we can get some money out of this." Massachusetts said "We're going to keep fighting this." Reilly got his head handed to them by the District court.
Foie gras and veal are great rabble rousers, and, I confess, I don't eat either of them. However, the reasons behind their emergence as foodstuffs challenge the usual presentation of them as "wanton cruelty in action".
Veal arose as a foodstuff because raising male cattle was considered wasteful. Female dairy cows were kept as milk-producers, of course, but keeping a male bull was cruel and wasteful if it was not going to be bred. The modern practice of gelding them to increase fat production is also cruel and wasteful, but steers don't fight one another. Bulls do, and the fights result in unnecessary injuries. Thus, all the animals were slaughtered except for one which was kept for breeding.
The result? Veal.
Similarly, foie gras arose from the feeding of male geese to fatten them for slaughter. Again, you can argue that slaughter is intrinsically cruel; as an omnivore, I'll respectfully disagree. It turns out that the liver of any fattened bird is particuarly luscious, and the net result is foie gras.
As are na.use.us, fu.rio.us, and mal.icio.us. I like that last one a lot.
The report you point to suggests the Salton Sea, which is a large, accidentally created, body of salt water, replenished by the Colorado River. The nice thing about using land in the Mojave is that the land in question is not currently used for agriculture -- it is, after all, a desert -- and so wouldn't be taken out of production.
Windows Journal has nothing to do with Windows Mobile.
The correct spelling is founid, not finided. Didn't yu lern nothing back in elemtury skewl?
[To answer a common misconception, you don't need a message to engage in an illegal demonstration. In fact, the basic tenet of the First Amendment right to assemble means that a regulation which bans assemblies cannot have anything to do with their content, and must merely be concerned with the orderly conduct of society.]