From TFBF (Beta Features): > ODF 1.2 Support > > OpenOffice.org 3.0 already supports the features of the upcoming version 1.2 of > the ISO standard OpenDocument Format (ODF). ODF 1.2 includes a powerful formula > language as well as a sophisticated metadata model based on the W3C standards > RDF and OWL. ODF is being mandated and adopted in a growing number of countries. > In addition; ODF is being implemented by many vendors for many different > applications.
When criticism is leveled against MS Office 2007 for not complying with ISO OOXML, even in the newest code level, there is the rightful counter that OOffice is no better at compliance with ISO ODF.
My/home is nfs4, the server is on a UPS, and the disk(s) on the server are raid-1.
I don't really care that much about TV, but would prefer not to lose it. If it were on ext3 I'd have it journal=data, or is that data=journal, anyway, full data journaling instead of just metadata. Incidentally, my raid-1 is set up that way, both for reliability and because I'd read that it's actually faster for an nfs server.
It might be a win for me even today on my meager 300G MythTV media partition. I'm currently using xfs for that, but every now and then I hear about bad things on xfs with a power failure, and other times I hear that it can be physically hard on the hard drive. (excess head motion?) Of course other times I hear that xfs is the best thing since sliced bread, and is usable for ANY purpose with just a little tuning.
I transcode my Myth stuff on an ext3 partition, and occasionally get complaints about the large data size without having the right options set. But it works.
But if we want to pick nits, Li ion cells also self-discharge, given time. So imagine your drill is sitting in the basement for a month or two between uses, plugged in. The battery charges, and the charger shuts off. The battery self-discharges, the charger comes on and tops it off, then shuts off. Repeat previous step until you use the tool next time. Plus Li ion also wear out with heat and cycling, so leaving it plugged in is slowly wearing it out. I've heard that you get the best lifetime out of Li ion by leaving it at 1/3 charge when not in use, then fully charge it for use. (or was that 2/3 charge?)
Fossil fuels are becoming more rare, and their price is going up. Technology is making advances for other energy sources, so their prices are going down.
Besides, as someone else mentions, there are already tremendous hidden subsidies in place for current sources. The same issue comes up with rail transport, because rail subsidies are explicit while air and road subsidies are hidden.
Net metering isn't the problem here. The problem is making sure you're not driving back into the grid when they meant to bring it down for service. If the guy in the cherry picker working up on the pole thinks your wires are cold, it's awfully rude (and dangerous) for him to find out that they're not.
> Once moonlight to followed suit you could have a multi-platform (yes with proper 64bit plugins) > SWF player that out performed Adobe's with the full backing of the industry monopoly.... > Any bets on how long the 'extinguish' phase will take?
"Extinguish" is a two-phase operation. Phase 1 is to extinguish Adobe. Phase 2 is to trot out the patents and extinguish Moonlight and desktop Linux.
You may not blast yourself to extinction, but you can certainly blast away your ability to run a technological civilization. At that point you'll also be so busy making war that you won't have a heck of a lot of time or energy for basic exploration.
> For all we know, we could come across as paragons to them for never having an out-and-out nuclear war.
It's a bit early to make that statement. We've merely avoided all-out nuclear war for about 50 years. The opportunities are still all-too present.
IMHO it's simple: The energies required for an interplanetary civilization, let alone an interstellar civilization, are SO great that if a species has more than the slightest tendency to make war with itself, it will extinguish either itself or its technological base. We are orders of magnitude away from the spare energy required to be an interplanetary civilization, and we're having a tough time keeping a lid on things.
Even if you want to posit homogeneous aliens who only make war on others, interstellar separation would likely be enough to cause enough differentiation to end that uniformity. So far hyperspace and warp drive is the stuff of Star ****, and travelling the hard, slow way kind of prevents tight-knit interstellar civilizations.
Plus space is downright hostile. Maybe with enough energy we could conquer the radiation/duration problems of interplanetary flight, but once again interstellar flight is more orders of magnitude beyond that. (Any idea what the radiation levels are like outside the Heliopause? I don't, but I find it hard to believe they'd be lower.)
Allowing this administration off scott-free for all that they have done is itself a dangerous precedent. At the same time, I can accept that an impeachment during an election cycle is also a bad idea.
Therefore, they should introduce Articles of Impeachment immediately after the November elections.
Of course it will go nowhere, there simply won't be time. But at least the attempt will have been begun, and that's better than the nothing that we've been doing. Even if it's impossible to prove malfeasance, the alternative then becomes misfeasance. Especially in the blatant quantities we've been seeing, either is grounds for impeachment.
We're not talking about any sort of historical figure here. Maybe the bar changes for this sort of thing once you're a public figure. Maybe such information does have historical import and needs to be preserved. But in this case, we don't have to answer those questions, because this is not a public figure. In such a case, the wishes of the deceased would come first, followed by the feelings of the family.
Have you explicitly stated that wish, so that your survivors know it, or can know it? Or are they supposed to know it through mental telepathy? Write it down, put in an envelope, mark it, "In the event of my death", and put it in a safe place where others will find it at the right time. Of course realize that what I said is not legally binding, and your survivors can glance at it and then do exactly as they please. If you want it to be legally binding, consult an attorney.
No such wishes appear to have been expressed in the current case.
Wishes were expressed, and your grandfather fulfilled them.
In the case here, there appear to be no wishes to fulfill. In such a case I would think that the family's wishes, within appropriate legal frameworks, apply. On the other hand, if the first thing you see in the guy's home directory is a file named, "In_the_event_of_my_death", then I'd think that it expresses the wishes of the deceased, even though it may have no legal standing. Still, that file should be the first, and perhaps only, thing read.
Along this line, I keep all of my passwords in pwsafe/MyPasswordSafe, and the master password is only in my head. I should probably write some stuff down, put it in an envelope, and put that in the safety deposit box.
Thank you for the information. Most of us, myself included, don't really understand how PKI works.
Part of the problem is that it SHOULD be widespread, even pervasive. But it's sufficiently expensive that it's limited to businesses. Most people would look at the expense and wonder why the heck they should spend that much money, when their email "works" as it is. Others know why, but it's still a lot of money, and go with PGP. Then some of us try PGP, and don't have enough friends that care or understand, and our keys wither with only a few signatures.
S/MIME has a single point of failure - the CA. They can be presented with a warrant, or worse still, a National Security Letter, and your privacy is all gone.
The Web of Trust of PGP doesn't give anyone else your private key. It only gives attestation to your identity. Even if one of your contacts was wretched villainous scum he can't compromise your key, the worst he can do is issue transitive trust (ab)using your trust of him.
That's all because the Republicans are the RIGHT wing, and therefore whatever they do is RIGHT. Whatever Bush does is RIGHT, because he's President and he's a Republican. By the same token, whatever Clinton did, and whatever the next Democratic President does, will be an abuse of power, because he/she's a Democrat, and that WRONG reverses the President's RIGHT, making it even worse.
And if you can't follow and buy into this clear chain of logic, you must be a liberal treasonous traitor.
What's really scary is that most times it's not put this simply or sarcastically, but apparently nearly half the nation has bought into this drivel.
But then early this year, McCain kissed the right a$$, and has been anointed by the same kingmakers that anointed Bush. The press is reporting on the angst and horseracing aspects of Clinton vs Obama, and is writing them off in November, "because irreparable damage has been done during the extended primary season," snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Hello President McCain... Bomb Iran, bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
> I can't "downgrade" a 747 into a vending machine
Of course you can: 1: Pull 747 up to gate. 2: Allow cockpit crew to leave, keep flight attendants. 3: Cancel engine maintenance contract, keep galley contracts. 4: PROFIT!! (not really, but couldn't resist)
To use: 1: Walk down jetway into 747, take a seat. 2: Push flight attendant button. 3: Flight attendant wheels cart to your seat, prepared to dispense peanuts, mini-pretzels, or soda. 4: Take you peanuts, mini-pretzels, or soda and exit the aircraft.
I didn't say that a downgraded 747 made a very good, convenient, or profitable vending machine, but with a few organic parts, (the flight attendants and ground service for the galley) it can make one. Perhaps a parallel for Diebold voting machines.
I hear what you're saying, but the image I get make me think, "Cavorite."
I also wonder that the surface area is getting sufficiently small that I would expect light pressure to be scaling downward too, though this is in the direction that square/cube effects are helping us. As an alternative I might suggest deploying fans, black on one side and silver on the other, like a classic radiometer. Then twist each fan blade at the base, to catch the sun with the desired angle. The fans themselves could likely be made like tree leaves, with veins made of memory metal and the surface some sort of plastic film. Crush it dark-side-out for launch, expose it to sunlight on-orbit, and it would auto-deploy.
Sounds like the RW nature only works for the lifetime of the goat. At the death of the goat, Goat-Skin+RW then needs to undergo the "archival" process, otherwise known as "tanning", in order to become a long-term storage medium. I see the major limiter to the "RW" nature being a rise in background noise with each write, a problem more commonly referred to as, "scarring."
The guys who are using it are following orders, and may not even be aware of the implications of their weapons. The people who suffer more are the ones who have to live in the place, after it's been peppered with DU.
The ones who DON'T have to live with the consequences are the ones who gave the orders to use the stuff, in the first place.
Can't believe that this long into the thread, and nobody has mentioned OOXML. Obviously your data needs to be in an open and documented format, so that it has the best chance of being read and the metadata properly interpreted later. Since it's an ISO standard, OOXML must be the obvious choice to meet requirements.
Slashdot Mirror
From TFBF (Beta Features):
> ODF 1.2 Support
>
> OpenOffice.org 3.0 already supports the features of the upcoming version 1.2 of
> the ISO standard OpenDocument Format (ODF). ODF 1.2 includes a powerful formula
> language as well as a sophisticated metadata model based on the W3C standards
> RDF and OWL. ODF is being mandated and adopted in a growing number of countries.
> In addition; ODF is being implemented by many vendors for many different
> applications.
When criticism is leveled against MS Office 2007 for not complying with ISO OOXML, even in the newest code level, there is the rightful counter that OOffice is no better at compliance with ISO ODF.
This appears to correct that problem.
My /home is nfs4, the server is on a UPS, and the disk(s) on the server are raid-1.
I don't really care that much about TV, but would prefer not to lose it. If it were on ext3 I'd have it journal=data, or is that data=journal, anyway, full data journaling instead of just metadata. Incidentally, my raid-1 is set up that way, both for reliability and because I'd read that it's actually faster for an nfs server.
It might be a win for me even today on my meager 300G MythTV media partition. I'm currently using xfs for that, but every now and then I hear about bad things on xfs with a power failure, and other times I hear that it can be physically hard on the hard drive. (excess head motion?) Of course other times I hear that xfs is the best thing since sliced bread, and is usable for ANY purpose with just a little tuning.
I transcode my Myth stuff on an ext3 partition, and occasionally get complaints about the large data size without having the right options set. But it works.
But if we want to pick nits, Li ion cells also self-discharge, given time. So imagine your drill is sitting in the basement for a month or two between uses, plugged in. The battery charges, and the charger shuts off. The battery self-discharges, the charger comes on and tops it off, then shuts off. Repeat previous step until you use the tool next time. Plus Li ion also wear out with heat and cycling, so leaving it plugged in is slowly wearing it out. I've heard that you get the best lifetime out of Li ion by leaving it at 1/3 charge when not in use, then fully charge it for use. (or was that 2/3 charge?)
Cheap is relative.
Fossil fuels are becoming more rare, and their price is going up.
Technology is making advances for other energy sources, so their prices are going down.
Besides, as someone else mentions, there are already tremendous hidden subsidies in place for current sources. The same issue comes up with rail transport, because rail subsidies are explicit while air and road subsidies are hidden.
Net metering isn't the problem here. The problem is making sure you're not driving back into the grid when they meant to bring it down for service. If the guy in the cherry picker working up on the pole thinks your wires are cold, it's awfully rude (and dangerous) for him to find out that they're not.
This issue here is the difference between blowing yourself up and blowing someone else up, someone else who is otherwise uninvolved in your hacking.
> Once moonlight to followed suit you could have a multi-platform (yes with proper 64bit plugins) ...
> SWF player that out performed Adobe's with the full backing of the industry monopoly.
> Any bets on how long the 'extinguish' phase will take?
"Extinguish" is a two-phase operation. Phase 1 is to extinguish Adobe. Phase 2 is to trot out the patents and extinguish Moonlight and desktop Linux.
You may not blast yourself to extinction, but you can certainly blast away your ability to run a technological civilization. At that point you'll also be so busy making war that you won't have a heck of a lot of time or energy for basic exploration.
> For all we know, we could come across as paragons to them for never having an out-and-out nuclear war.
It's a bit early to make that statement. We've merely avoided all-out nuclear war for about 50 years. The opportunities are still all-too present.
IMHO it's simple: The energies required for an interplanetary civilization, let alone an interstellar civilization, are SO great that if a species has more than the slightest tendency to make war with itself, it will extinguish either itself or its technological base. We are orders of magnitude away from the spare energy required to be an interplanetary civilization, and we're having a tough time keeping a lid on things.
Even if you want to posit homogeneous aliens who only make war on others, interstellar separation would likely be enough to cause enough differentiation to end that uniformity. So far hyperspace and warp drive is the stuff of Star ****, and travelling the hard, slow way kind of prevents tight-knit interstellar civilizations.
Plus space is downright hostile. Maybe with enough energy we could conquer the radiation/duration problems of interplanetary flight, but once again interstellar flight is more orders of magnitude beyond that. (Any idea what the radiation levels are like outside the Heliopause? I don't, but I find it hard to believe they'd be lower.)
Allowing this administration off scott-free for all that they have done is itself a dangerous precedent. At the same time, I can accept that an impeachment during an election cycle is also a bad idea.
Therefore, they should introduce Articles of Impeachment immediately after the November elections.
Of course it will go nowhere, there simply won't be time. But at least the attempt will have been begun, and that's better than the nothing that we've been doing. Even if it's impossible to prove malfeasance, the alternative then becomes misfeasance. Especially in the blatant quantities we've been seeing, either is grounds for impeachment.
We're not talking about any sort of historical figure here.
Maybe the bar changes for this sort of thing once you're a public figure.
Maybe such information does have historical import and needs to be preserved.
But in this case, we don't have to answer those questions, because this is not a public figure.
In such a case, the wishes of the deceased would come first, followed by the feelings of the family.
Have you explicitly stated that wish, so that your survivors know it, or can know it? Or are they supposed to know it through mental telepathy? Write it down, put in an envelope, mark it, "In the event of my death", and put it in a safe place where others will find it at the right time. Of course realize that what I said is not legally binding, and your survivors can glance at it and then do exactly as they please. If you want it to be legally binding, consult an attorney.
No such wishes appear to have been expressed in the current case.
Wishes were expressed, and your grandfather fulfilled them.
In the case here, there appear to be no wishes to fulfill. In such a case I would think that the family's wishes, within appropriate legal frameworks, apply. On the other hand, if the first thing you see in the guy's home directory is a file named, "In_the_event_of_my_death", then I'd think that it expresses the wishes of the deceased, even though it may have no legal standing. Still, that file should be the first, and perhaps only, thing read.
Along this line, I keep all of my passwords in pwsafe/MyPasswordSafe, and the master password is only in my head. I should probably write some stuff down, put it in an envelope, and put that in the safety deposit box.
Thank you for the information. Most of us, myself included, don't really understand how PKI works.
Part of the problem is that it SHOULD be widespread, even pervasive. But it's sufficiently expensive that it's limited to businesses. Most people would look at the expense and wonder why the heck they should spend that much money, when their email "works" as it is. Others know why, but it's still a lot of money, and go with PGP. Then some of us try PGP, and don't have enough friends that care or understand, and our keys wither with only a few signatures.
S/MIME has a single point of failure - the CA. They can be presented with a warrant, or worse still, a National Security Letter, and your privacy is all gone.
The Web of Trust of PGP doesn't give anyone else your private key. It only gives attestation to your identity. Even if one of your contacts was wretched villainous scum he can't compromise your key, the worst he can do is issue transitive trust (ab)using your trust of him.
That's all because the Republicans are the RIGHT wing, and therefore whatever they do is RIGHT. Whatever Bush does is RIGHT, because he's President and he's a Republican. By the same token, whatever Clinton did, and whatever the next Democratic President does, will be an abuse of power, because he/she's a Democrat, and that WRONG reverses the President's RIGHT, making it even worse.
And if you can't follow and buy into this clear chain of logic, you must be a liberal treasonous traitor.
What's really scary is that most times it's not put this simply or sarcastically, but apparently nearly half the nation has bought into this drivel.
But then early this year, McCain kissed the right a$$, and has been anointed by the same kingmakers that anointed Bush. The press is reporting on the angst and horseracing aspects of Clinton vs Obama, and is writing them off in November, "because irreparable damage has been done during the extended primary season," snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Hello President McCain... Bomb Iran, bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
> I can't "downgrade" a 747 into a vending machine
Of course you can:
1: Pull 747 up to gate.
2: Allow cockpit crew to leave, keep flight attendants.
3: Cancel engine maintenance contract, keep galley contracts.
4: PROFIT!! (not really, but couldn't resist)
To use:
1: Walk down jetway into 747, take a seat.
2: Push flight attendant button.
3: Flight attendant wheels cart to your seat, prepared to dispense peanuts, mini-pretzels, or soda.
4: Take you peanuts, mini-pretzels, or soda and exit the aircraft.
I didn't say that a downgraded 747 made a very good, convenient, or profitable vending machine, but with a few organic parts, (the flight attendants and ground service for the galley) it can make one. Perhaps a parallel for Diebold voting machines.
I hear what you're saying, but the image I get make me think, "Cavorite."
I also wonder that the surface area is getting sufficiently small that I would expect light pressure to be scaling downward too, though this is in the direction that square/cube effects are helping us. As an alternative I might suggest deploying fans, black on one side and silver on the other, like a classic radiometer. Then twist each fan blade at the base, to catch the sun with the desired angle. The fans themselves could likely be made like tree leaves, with veins made of memory metal and the surface some sort of plastic film. Crush it dark-side-out for launch, expose it to sunlight on-orbit, and it would auto-deploy.
Sounds like the RW nature only works for the lifetime of the goat. At the death of the goat, Goat-Skin+RW then needs to undergo the "archival" process, otherwise known as "tanning", in order to become a long-term storage medium. I see the major limiter to the "RW" nature being a rise in background noise with each write, a problem more commonly referred to as, "scarring."
Won't argue, but I'd rather see the ones who gave the orders get theirs.
The guys who are using it are following orders, and may not even be aware of the implications of their weapons.
The people who suffer more are the ones who have to live in the place, after it's been peppered with DU.
The ones who DON'T have to live with the consequences are the ones who gave the orders to use the stuff, in the first place.
Heck, our society needs a whole library of Nam-Shubs. Some religions would only be a start.
I liked the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter: Witch.
Only problem with hers was that you only figured out what the heck she meant after the fact. THEN it's obvious, but not before.
Can't believe that this long into the thread, and nobody has mentioned OOXML. Obviously your data needs to be in an open and documented format, so that it has the best chance of being read and the metadata properly interpreted later. Since it's an ISO standard, OOXML must be the obvious choice to meet requirements.