Kit had a diamond coating over his entire (car) body. I think they called it OmniCoating or something 80's high-tech sounding like that.
In one episode, i think they discovered an achillies heal where part of Kit was not properly protected... we almost lost him on that one.
Anyhow, this is soooo 80s...
Didn't Neil Stephenson teach us not to coat with diamonds, but build with them? Molecule ([begin debate now on whether diamond is a moleclue or not]) by molecule. I want 4inch think diamond windows. I don't care if their brittle, the matricies will be built in a fault redundant manner...
I have no idea what the hell they are talking about, but even I read this in one of the abstracts:
The web link graph has a nested block structure: the vast majority of hyperlinks link pages on a host to other pages on the same host, and many of those that do not link pages within the same domain. We show how to exploit this structure to speed up the computation of PageRank by a 3-stage algorithm whereby (1)~the local PageRanks of pages for each host are computed independently using the link structure of that host, (2)~these local PageRanks are then weighted by the ``importance'' of the corresponding host, and (3)~the standard PageRank algorithm is then run using as its starting vector the weighted aggregate of the local PageRanks. Empirically, this algorithm speeds up the computation of PageRank by a factor of 2 in realistic scenarios. Further,
we develop a variant of this algorithm that efficiently computes many different ``personalized'' PageRanks, and a variant that efficiently recomputes PageRank after node updates.
What they mean by 'personalized' I can't tell you as I have not read through the entire PDF. But I wouldn't chastise the slashdot editors over this. If there is some sort of differential algorithm that can be applied to the larger PageRank to create smaller personalized PageRanks, it might not be so far fetched to think this could be done in realtime on an as-needed basis, at some point int he future using these algorithm improvements.
I know that's a lot of optimism for a slashdot comment, but call me the krazy kat that I am.
Surely, they must be. Together, our combined slashdot brain power can fine some sort of damning evidence proving the Microsoft collusion in this.
I have faith in all of you.
Doesn't MS own part of SCO? If linux is going to die, WE MUST PIN IT ON MICROSOFT! Otherwise we won't have the Martyr effect we need.
This won't hurt IBM. They still plan on selling big mainframes with their own software on it (largely helped on by free linux developers contributions). So what if IBM gets free slave labor and offers nothing in return other than cutting out the little linux consultants with their IBM Consulting Group behemoth.
We don't care about IBM and how they exploit free software developers. Or Apple for that matter and their use expliotation of FreeBSD. We honeslt don't care about SCO. The heart of this is somehow MS is FORCING SCO TO DO THIS. They obviously are blackmailing them. WE MUST FIND THE PROOF!
I eagerly await facts supporting what we all know must be true....
They are not trying to protect users from downloading infected files. That's impossible because of the way IRC/DCC works.
KaZaA has nothing to do with this, nor can their programmers add anything useful.
What they are attempting to do is shut down the nervous system of Fizzer. Fizzer uses IRC networks to communicate with it's "master" (for lack of better word). The infected machines sign on to random irc networks, and go to specific channels, awaiting orders. From that point they can be told to ping or flood, or dump their key logs...etc.
Also, this virus is spreading primarily through good old fashion e-mail. Same as a hundred other virus, it sends a familiar looking subject/body with a.scr,.com,.exe,.pif attached.
This is not true. The only thing a browser could do with XML is display the XML, in IE it would auto-format it using CSS into a nice 'tree' view of the XML. No idea what the Mozilla's do.
In order to render the _DATA_ in the XML document as you would see it in Word, would take a custom XSL transform (WordML to XHTML/CSS2). You could reference this XSL file at the top of the XML document, and IE again would execute the transform for you (don't know about mozilla).
However I'm not sure if you could even do it with full CSS2. I'm sure there are still things browser can't do that common word editors take for granted (Header/Footers come to mind, though I could think of some ways to hack aorund with with CSS2 and #Media directives). I guess Drop cases are in CSS2, I wonder about other things we simply take for granted when we format in a WYSIWYG document editor. Either way, rendering it _EXACTLY_ as you see it in Word would take rather serious xsl transform and excellent understand of CSS.
That's the only reason i have gamepad controllers for my PC. The concept of 'standardizing' them just means get the hardware manufacturers to agree on common number of button/analog sticks/d-pads...whatever. So that for each game, I don't have to go through an elabortate mapping tool, or make sure i have the most well known controller. I'd like to be able to pick "PC Controller Standard 1.0" from a list and be done. I'm sure developers wouldn't mind being able to say "tested with a standard controller by company X".
ie, think of some sort of API that allows game developers to implement said api, and magically have their software appear in this match-finding app. Like the old GameSpy application but with plugin support for new games.
One less thing for a game maker to worry about building, testing, and putting in their game. As for games, think about Sport games, First Person Shooters, and RTS games, where you are looking to find a quick pickup of X player or some server with a good ping time.
To a certain extent, this was tried with DirectPlay, but DirectPlay was too little, too late, and over architected. Hopefully, this is simply a shell that specific some base interfaces the games should support, and a well known location for them to register themselves.
You gotta wonder where the vibrations on a two stroke engine mounted inside the bike frame are going to go....
I'm not against it, i'm just saying, certain female population may find riding bickes are enjoyable as the first victorian females did... for prehaps not so obvious reasons.
First, i have no idea what the words "decide" and "pet" are doing in my comments. All I can say is I haven't yet made it to Starbucks.
Second, the slashdot story says this is from "InternetWorld" yet the link is to a site called "InternetNews". They appear to NOT have the same publisher/owner. Is this a typo?
I also found an article (much better) on InfoWorld which contains more details, and is by someone who actually used the product.
Third, and I missed this before, check out this quote from the InternetNews article:
"Although it's still early in the review process, it does look as though XP XML has been so seriously crippled as to be useless to anyone but the big content management and collaboration system providers," Edwards said. "Reports are that when saving to XML, [Office 2003] strips out the presentation and formatting information, leaving near raw content
"Looks like" "Reports are". Did this guy EVEN USE THE PRODUCT?
Christs, we should be allowed to Moderate the sources of articles. This is a pretty lousy article, and if it's indictive of InternetNews, i'd rather not hear any more stories from them.
Fourthly, I notice on my GoogleNews page that the google autogenerated this InternetNews story as the top link. this is no doubt why we have to deal with it on slashdot.
-Malakai
Re:The authors of the article didn't bother to RTF
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It does this in two ways. One, you can bind a Schema of your own to a Word.DOT file and anything created using that template must validate against the Schema. Then when you save the data as xml, the xml doc will conform to the schema. You can still markup the document in word, but the SAve As XML (Data Only) will mimic the schema. You would have to Save as WordML to get formating you added (which you shouldn't have added if your using a schema anyhow).
Two, there's a new application called InfoPath (formerly XDocs). InfoPath is primarily designed for getting the data. Esentially XML enabled forms. The forms are easy to constuct based off XSD's. InfoPath and then (obviously) hand that data to word to be format (like a resume) or to Excel to be analyzed.
Taken from a real review of the XML/Office features:
Once valid, the document can be saved as XML in two ways. The default is to create
WordML, which preserves Word's styles and formatting in an XML name-space that's separate from the one bound to the schema-controlled data. You can optionally save through an XSLT transformation which, in a publish-to-the-Web scenario, could translate WordML formatting into HTML/CSS formatting. Alternatively, if you tick the Save as Data option, you can instead save just the raw XML data. In that case, you can bind one or more XSLT stylesheets to the document, each of which can generate WordML styles and formatting.
If you "Save as XML" in Office 11, then by default the data is saved as WordML. WordML is an xml version of MS internal storage format (basically RTF). OpenOffice could quite easily write an interpreter for WordML. Hell, I could write an WYSIWYG editor for WordML in a day. If that. It's pretty simple if you understand the basics of RTF.
It's only when you Save as XML with the "Data Only" checkbox that you get into striping formating (and rightly so). Word WARNS you about this. In addition, you can specify your own XSD to save to. And word will VALIDATE this for. Not to mention, you can use a word tool to map elements of Word documents to elements of your schema. DAMN COOL.
In addition (As if that isn't enough) when you save, in either way, you have the option of specifiying a XSL style sheet. It'll go ahead and transform the output for you as part of the save.
Then only thing the OpenOffice people are upset about is that MS didn't buy into the OASIS/OpenOffice Document Specification. Tough shit. I'll write them an XSL that'll work again WordML to solve that for them. Lazy bastards.
-malakai
The article is blantantly wrong...
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Read some other articles, or better yet get ahold of a beta and try it out. The authors of this articles will feel like schmucks when they realize what they missed.
First off, by default, if you save the word document as XML, it gets saved as WordML,which preserves Word's styles and formatting in an XML name-space that's separate from the one bound to the schema-controlled data.
If you check off the checkbox "Data Only" then you will lose all formating and your own XSD will be used to map this document into XML data.
WordML looks like a XML'ified RTF language. It would be trival to create an XSL stylesheet that transforms WordML into HTML/CSS with all formating (that HTML is capable of) which directly mimics MS Word. OpenOffice could also eat WordML quite easily and have all the formating/style of Word.
What the authors of this article are REALLY bithing at, is the fact that MS didn't buy into the OpenOffice Document Specification from OASIS. MS prolly sees OASIS as the US sees the UN. Defunct, not needed.
If you describe your data using XML semantics, and all it takes to convert from semantic style A to B is some XSL, then who cares about forcing everyone to use one specific format.
-malakai
The authors of the article didn't bother to RTFM..
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The point of the Office 2003 "Save as XML" with the "Data Only" checkbox is _NOT_ a poor mans Save As XHTML. It's decide to allow the data of the document and pet placed into an XML document based on a schema. You literally can make your own schema file/XSD, and use a tool inside Word to map the elements of a Word document to elements of the schema. If you simply map a paragraph to a string you will lose formating. Unless of course you define in your schema how you'd like to store formating information. But that is generally an overkill.
Think of a resume. you could define an XSD for a resume, and be able to save resumes against this XSD, as validated pure XML.
Now, if you want to produce a document, using an XML syntax but want to combine both data and presentation, then you want WordML.
WordML uses Word's own tags to markup the word document. I was going to show you an example of WordML but i don't feel like escaping allt he greater-than/less-than signs. Anyhow, WordML contains all the formating and everything necessary to display a Word document as it is supposed to look.
I think this Open Office guy is looking for a devil in Office 11 that isn't there. That or he didn't read the friggin manual.
All you need is a ship capable of sustaining 1g of acceleration for somewhere between 1 and 5 years, and when you return to earth hundreds of years will have past. I used to have a URL to a table that showed with 25 years of 1g acceleration you'd be outside the known universe, and if you round-tripped it, when you returned to your starting point, the sun will have been billions of years dead.
Scary how acceleration and relativity add up for a funky mix.
One way future going time machines would be much easier to build than perfecting cryogenics in my uneducated opinion.
Well, you say that which such authority you must have been part of the team that designed and built it.
1) Clear flyable weather. While you can detect the thermal blooms of launch, you can't rely on that for tracking, thus the need for a ranging laser. Will this work if you've got 5-10k ft of cloud cover to visually confirm the target? How about minor-major turbulance?
The system uses a deformable mirror to compensate for phase distortion that occurs naturally in the atomsphere. This was one of the biggest achievments they made back in the early 90's. The whole system has a number of controllable that allow it to adaptively compensate for not only variance but turbulence. See here: http://www.spie.org/web/oer/december/oer_dec95_1.h tml
Also, at 40k feet, this is ABOVE the cloud layer. Once you detect the heat bloom, and there will be a large heat bloom as the missles are essentially standing on pillars of fire, the system begines to prep and waits for the missle to break through the cloud layer, at which point it can target it, measure the return radition from the targeting laser, compensate for distance/atmosphere, and take a shot at it.
2) Total aerial supremancy. As with AWACS, you'll need to dominate the skies to the point where SAMs are not making the plane suddenly jink and miss the shot at the wrong time
This thing is 'parked' in a figure 8 pattern at above 40k feet. SAMs can't reach it. AWACS hangs out at above 29k because of the radar it uses and the value of said radar at 29k. And yeah, duh, you want to keep some sort of enemy fighters away from them. This is a non-issue for the US right now. We have air superiority.
3) Target overload. If there are a "lot" of thermal blooms, how long will it take to determine which one is shooting the real missle?...
It waits for a missle to break through the cloud layer. If something busts through the cloud layer, at this time it's first come first get shot down. If 100 are launched, and there's only 2 ABL's flying around, yeah, some will get through. But i don't think the people saved from the 20 or so that get shot down are going to complain.
4) Equipment. How long to reload between shots? Fast enough to take a second shot? What sort of stress does this put on the plane and the internal equipment? If you do miss, can you still track the missed target
Military secret, but "experts" guesstimate less than a minute.
5) Limited range. From the description it can cover a few hundred square miles....
It's range is again secret but it's assumed to be "100s of kilometers". I'm not going to do the math, but covering say a circular range of 200 miles, at 40k feet gives your a ground coverage of a much larger aspect. Throwing a few of these over North Korea could neuter them on the spot.
that this picture here has threee times as many hits on it than the rest of the site (pre slashdotting too).
I bet she's just one of the caterers too.
-Malakai
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We're not doing it now because the tech isn't yet ready. Certain aspects of the nano-tubes tech has been seen to work in a lab, but it's not at a production level by any measure.
NASA should be commended for giving grants to do this research (twice), event though NASA and the government should NOT be the ones who build this.
If you would do a poll now asking the average American whether a space elevator could be done, I'm willing to bet a month's salary that the result will be: "90% think it's a ridiculous idea and it can never be done." and answers like "That's all science fiction, we better stick to our rockets, and by the way spacefaring is very complex it can't be done just by stepping into an elevator."
Keep your $1,700 bucks and keep your ridiculous satistical assumptions based on your view of your little world. They don't help us here. Quit trying to find reasons to blame others.
Because today's gov and NASA contractors still have a lot of expensive rocketry missions in store
And thats still usefull, a space elevator isn't going to get us to the Mars without some other propulsion. And I'd HATE to see all projects put on hold while we wait for the new Space Elevator to be developed, which will take 15-20 years with cost/project overruns. Everyone keep doing what your doing and if the Space elevator pans out we'll be even better off.
It makes me so sad when I see what we could achieve even within our lifetime, but our world's inherent corruption prevents it from becoming a reality...
Get off your ass, out of your parents basement, and DO IT. Try, aim, shoot, whatever it is go for it. Others have, why not you? Don't think you have the cash? Raise some. Don't have the talent? Read books. Go back to school. Go to school for the first time, just stop whining about how it's everyone elses fault (and those dumb "John Q Public" people) that you aren't out conquering some new solar system in your kilrathi fighter....
You mean how do you change it's default start page for "Media Guide"? You can't as far as I know. Consider this the ad it uses to pay for it's development which allowed you to download and run for free.
No information is sent to the site, other than a cookie if you have cookies enabled for windowsmedia.com.
No usage information is sent if you remove the check from that checkbox under the Privacy tab.
If you want to see a media player abuse it's power, download and run Real Player. I get pop-up adds from Gator corp and even worse vendors when I start-up real player. True, it lets me change my start page, but i'm still forced X number of popups per day.
Oh praytell, what wonderfull backdoors exist and in which MS products? In recent memory i can recall only the Front Page "view source" exploit that was listed as a 'backdoor' but wasn't. You needed author permission to access the website vti_admin directory anyhow to use that ISAPI dll.
their "click-thru" licensing of mediaplayer also lets your box "phone home".
Would you feel better if it was a radio button or or slider rather than a clickable button? Also, it is about as malacious as Winamp, in that you have to allow it to phone home, and you can choose to allow it to report anonymous statistics (just like winamp). I don't see people with pitchforks calling for nullsoft's (er... AOL i guess) heads.
the first time they screw up, they'll be glad there was a back door
Doubtful. A backdoor is never needed. There's no backdoor to losing the Administrator password on an NT box, yet you can reset it with physical access. Would people be thankfull if there was one? I doubt it, you'd probably have an ape shit.
if they can't trust you to refrain from abusing any back door you put in, they shouldn't be using you anyway!!! Now, does this mean that I'm going to start putting back doors in? Probably. At least when the product/code/app is going to be used by less-than-clued-in end users who are likely to screw up things to the point where some "emergency entrance hatch" is required.
You are the epitomy of what is wrong with many developers today. You hate your users with a passion much like some land owner has towards his 'peasant' workers. Grow up, listen to your users, respect them and advise them, and with all honesty work towards middle ground.
I don't know, he seems to have bowed gracefully on the death of Bob.
Our failures tend to result from markets being too small. Microsoft Bob was a product a couple of years ago that used on-screen cartoon characters to carry out tasks for people. Unfortunately, the software demanded more performance than typical computer hardware could deliver at the time and there wasn't an adequately large market. Bob died.
The letter seems more like a platform to reiterate common gripes Linux users have with the MS empire. I can't see how anyone who was part of constructing that letter thought it would do any good in the way it was written. It's as if it was written by a French diplomat.
The letter alleges that an email alias at xbox.com might not be staffed due to the "dumping" of xbox's and the poor fiscal performance of the xbox "division".
Also, the letter places restrictions on MS if MS sees fit to given them a key. The mountain in this case, is told which path it should crawl on to get to Mohammad.
It's somewhat comical, and sad at the same time. Either way, useless. If MS _DID_ give them a key, it would be for a specific build/version/signature only. And that just won't make these guys happy.
I recommend the authors of this letter read up a little on basic diplomacy. My recommendations:
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Kit had a diamond coating over his entire (car) body. I think they called it OmniCoating or something 80's high-tech sounding like that.
In one episode, i think they discovered an achillies heal where part of Kit was not properly protected... we almost lost him on that one.
Anyhow, this is soooo 80s...
Didn't Neil Stephenson teach us not to coat with diamonds, but build with them? Molecule ([begin debate now on whether diamond is a moleclue or not]) by molecule. I want 4inch think diamond windows. I don't care if their brittle, the matricies will be built in a fault redundant manner...
-Malakai
What they mean by 'personalized' I can't tell you as I have not read through the entire PDF. But I wouldn't chastise the slashdot editors over this. If there is some sort of differential algorithm that can be applied to the larger PageRank to create smaller personalized PageRanks, it might not be so far fetched to think this could be done in realtime on an as-needed basis, at some point int he future using these algorithm improvements.
I know that's a lot of optimism for a slashdot comment, but call me the krazy kat that I am.
-Malakai
Surely, they must be. Together, our combined slashdot brain power can fine some sort of damning evidence proving the Microsoft collusion in this.
I have faith in all of you.
Doesn't MS own part of SCO? If linux is going to die, WE MUST PIN IT ON MICROSOFT! Otherwise we won't have the Martyr effect we need.
This won't hurt IBM. They still plan on selling big mainframes with their own software on it (largely helped on by free linux developers contributions). So what if IBM gets free slave labor and offers nothing in return other than cutting out the little linux consultants with their IBM Consulting Group behemoth.
We don't care about IBM and how they exploit free software developers. Or Apple for that matter and their use expliotation of FreeBSD. We honeslt don't care about SCO. The heart of this is somehow MS is FORCING SCO TO DO THIS. They obviously are blackmailing them. WE MUST FIND THE PROOF!
I eagerly await facts supporting what we all know must be true....
-Malakai
yes i'm friggin kidding.
They are not trying to protect users from downloading infected files. That's impossible because of the way IRC/DCC works.
.scr, .com, .exe, .pif attached.
KaZaA has nothing to do with this, nor can their programmers add anything useful.
What they are attempting to do is shut down the nervous system of Fizzer. Fizzer uses IRC networks to communicate with it's "master" (for lack of better word). The infected machines sign on to random irc networks, and go to specific channels, awaiting orders. From that point they can be told to ping or flood, or dump their key logs...etc.
Also, this virus is spreading primarily through good old fashion e-mail. Same as a hundred other virus, it sends a familiar looking subject/body with a
-Malakai
in car entertainment centers don't kill people. Morons who try and watch movies while driving kill people.
The same moron will die when he tries use WAP to buy a book from Amazon while cruising the Autobahn at 120
Honestly though, if your "cousin" had died while doing this, i'd recm'd you submit his story here. I'd sure vote for him.
-malakai
This is not true. The only thing a browser could do with XML is display the XML, in IE it would auto-format it using CSS into a nice 'tree' view of the XML. No idea what the Mozilla's do.
In order to render the _DATA_ in the XML document as you would see it in Word, would take a custom XSL transform (WordML to XHTML/CSS2). You could reference this XSL file at the top of the XML document, and IE again would execute the transform for you (don't know about mozilla).
However I'm not sure if you could even do it with full CSS2. I'm sure there are still things browser can't do that common word editors take for granted (Header/Footers come to mind, though I could think of some ways to hack aorund with with CSS2 and #Media directives). I guess Drop cases are in CSS2, I wonder about other things we simply take for granted when we format in a WYSIWYG document editor. Either way, rendering it _EXACTLY_ as you see it in Word would take rather serious xsl transform and excellent understand of CSS.
-malakai
That's the only reason i have gamepad controllers for my PC. The concept of 'standardizing' them just means get the hardware manufacturers to agree on common number of button/analog sticks/d-pads...whatever. So that for each game, I don't have to go through an elabortate mapping tool, or make sure i have the most well known controller. I'd like to be able to pick "PC Controller Standard 1.0" from a list and be done. I'm sure developers wouldn't mind being able to say "tested with a standard controller by company X".
-malakai
ie, think of some sort of API that allows game developers to implement said api, and magically have their software appear in this match-finding app. Like the old GameSpy application but with plugin support for new games.
One less thing for a game maker to worry about building, testing, and putting in their game. As for games, think about Sport games, First Person Shooters, and RTS games, where you are looking to find a quick pickup of X player or some server with a good ping time.
To a certain extent, this was tried with DirectPlay, but DirectPlay was too little, too late, and over architected. Hopefully, this is simply a shell that specific some base interfaces the games should support, and a well known location for them to register themselves.
-malakai
-malakai
You gotta wonder where the vibrations on a two stroke engine mounted inside the bike frame are going to go....
I'm not against it, i'm just saying, certain female population may find riding bickes are enjoyable as the first victorian females did... for prehaps not so obvious reasons.
-malakai
Second, the slashdot story says this is from "InternetWorld" yet the link is to a site called "InternetNews". They appear to NOT have the same publisher/owner. Is this a typo?
I also found an article (much better) on InfoWorld which contains more details, and is by someone who actually used the product.
Third, and I missed this before, check out this quote from the InternetNews article:
"Looks like" "Reports are". Did this guy EVEN USE THE PRODUCT?
Christs, we should be allowed to Moderate the sources of articles. This is a pretty lousy article, and if it's indictive of InternetNews, i'd rather not hear any more stories from them.
Fourthly, I notice on my GoogleNews page that the google autogenerated this InternetNews story as the top link. this is no doubt why we have to deal with it on slashdot.
-Malakai
It does this in two ways. One, you can bind a Schema of your own to a Word .DOT file and anything created using that template must validate against the Schema. Then when you save the data as xml, the xml doc will conform to the schema. You can still markup the document in word, but the SAve As XML (Data Only) will mimic the schema. You would have to Save as WordML to get formating you added (which you shouldn't have added if your using a schema anyhow).
Two, there's a new application called InfoPath (formerly XDocs). InfoPath is primarily designed for getting the data. Esentially XML enabled forms. The forms are easy to constuct based off XSD's. InfoPath and then (obviously) hand that data to word to be format (like a resume) or to Excel to be analyzed.
-malakai
InternetNews is authored by morons.
-malakai
If you "Save as XML" in Office 11, then by default the data is saved as WordML. WordML is an xml version of MS internal storage format (basically RTF). OpenOffice could quite easily write an interpreter for WordML. Hell, I could write an WYSIWYG editor for WordML in a day. If that. It's pretty simple if you understand the basics of RTF.
It's only when you Save as XML with the "Data Only" checkbox that you get into striping formating (and rightly so). Word WARNS you about this. In addition, you can specify your own XSD to save to. And word will VALIDATE this for. Not to mention, you can use a word tool to map elements of Word documents to elements of your schema. DAMN COOL.
In addition (As if that isn't enough) when you save, in either way, you have the option of specifiying a XSL style sheet. It'll go ahead and transform the output for you as part of the save.
Then only thing the OpenOffice people are upset about is that MS didn't buy into the OASIS/OpenOffice Document Specification. Tough shit. I'll write them an XSL that'll work again WordML to solve that for them. Lazy bastards.
-malakai
Read some other articles, or better yet get ahold of a beta and try it out. The authors of this articles will feel like schmucks when they realize what they missed.
First off, by default, if you save the word document as XML, it gets saved as WordML,which preserves Word's styles and formatting in an XML name-space that's separate from the one bound to the schema-controlled data.
If you check off the checkbox "Data Only" then you will lose all formating and your own XSD will be used to map this document into XML data.
WordML looks like a XML'ified RTF language. It would be trival to create an XSL stylesheet that transforms WordML into HTML/CSS with all formating (that HTML is capable of) which directly mimics MS Word. OpenOffice could also eat WordML quite easily and have all the formating/style of Word.
What the authors of this article are REALLY bithing at, is the fact that MS didn't buy into the OpenOffice Document Specification from OASIS. MS prolly sees OASIS as the US sees the UN. Defunct, not needed.
If you describe your data using XML semantics, and all it takes to convert from semantic style A to B is some XSL, then who cares about forcing everyone to use one specific format.
-malakai
The point of the Office 2003 "Save as XML" with the "Data Only" checkbox is _NOT_ a poor mans Save As XHTML. It's decide to allow the data of the document and pet placed into an XML document based on a schema. You literally can make your own schema file/XSD, and use a tool inside Word to map the elements of a Word document to elements of the schema. If you simply map a paragraph to a string you will lose formating. Unless of course you define in your schema how you'd like to store formating information. But that is generally an overkill.
Think of a resume. you could define an XSD for a resume, and be able to save resumes against this XSD, as validated pure XML.
Now, if you want to produce a document, using an XML syntax but want to combine both data and presentation, then you want WordML.
WordML uses Word's own tags to markup the word document. I was going to show you an example of WordML but i don't feel like escaping allt he greater-than/less-than signs. Anyhow, WordML contains all the formating and everything necessary to display a Word document as it is supposed to look.
I think this Open Office guy is looking for a devil in Office 11 that isn't there. That or he didn't read the friggin manual.
-Malakai
All you need is a ship capable of sustaining 1g of acceleration for somewhere between 1 and 5 years, and when you return to earth hundreds of years will have past. I used to have a URL to a table that showed with 25 years of 1g acceleration you'd be outside the known universe, and if you round-tripped it, when you returned to your starting point, the sun will have been billions of years dead.
Scary how acceleration and relativity add up for a funky mix.
One way future going time machines would be much easier to build than perfecting cryogenics in my uneducated opinion.
-malakai
The system uses a deformable mirror to compensate for phase distortion that occurs naturally in the atomsphere. This was one of the biggest achievments they made back in the early 90's. The whole system has a number of controllable that allow it to adaptively compensate for not only variance but turbulence. See here: http://www.spie.org/web/oer/december/oer_dec95_1.
Also, at 40k feet, this is ABOVE the cloud layer. Once you detect the heat bloom, and there will be a large heat bloom as the missles are essentially standing on pillars of fire, the system begines to prep and waits for the missle to break through the cloud layer, at which point it can target it, measure the return radition from the targeting laser, compensate for distance/atmosphere, and take a shot at it.
This thing is 'parked' in a figure 8 pattern at above 40k feet. SAMs can't reach it. AWACS hangs out at above 29k because of the radar it uses and the value of said radar at 29k. And yeah, duh, you want to keep some sort of enemy fighters away from them. This is a non-issue for the US right now. We have air superiority.
It waits for a missle to break through the cloud layer. If something busts through the cloud layer, at this time it's first come first get shot down. If 100 are launched, and there's only 2 ABL's flying around, yeah, some will get through. But i don't think the people saved from the 20 or so that get shot down are going to complain.
Military secret, but "experts" guesstimate less than a minute.
It's range is again secret but it's assumed to be "100s of kilometers". I'm not going to do the math, but covering say a circular range of 200 miles, at 40k feet gives your a ground coverage of a much larger aspect. Throwing a few of these over North Korea could neuter them on the spot.
-Malakai
that this picture here has threee times as many hits on it than the rest of the site (pre slashdotting too).
I bet she's just one of the caterers too.
-Malakai
NASA should be commended for giving grants to do this research (twice), event though NASA and the government should NOT be the ones who build this.
Keep your $1,700 bucks and keep your ridiculous satistical assumptions based on your view of your little world. They don't help us here. Quit trying to find reasons to blame others.
And thats still usefull, a space elevator isn't going to get us to the Mars without some other propulsion. And I'd HATE to see all projects put on hold while we wait for the new Space Elevator to be developed, which will take 15-20 years with cost/project overruns. Everyone keep doing what your doing and if the Space elevator pans out we'll be even better off.
Get off your ass, out of your parents basement, and DO IT. Try, aim, shoot, whatever it is go for it. Others have, why not you? Don't think you have the cash? Raise some. Don't have the talent? Read books. Go back to school. Go to school for the first time, just stop whining about how it's everyone elses fault (and those dumb "John Q Public" people) that you aren't out conquering some new solar system in your kilrathi fighter....
-Malakai
You mean how do you change it's default start page for "Media Guide"? You can't as far as I know. Consider this the ad it uses to pay for it's development which allowed you to download and run for free.
No information is sent to the site, other than a cookie if you have cookies enabled for windowsmedia.com.
No usage information is sent if you remove the check from that checkbox under the Privacy tab.
If you want to see a media player abuse it's power, download and run Real Player. I get pop-up adds from Gator corp and even worse vendors when I start-up real player. True, it lets me change my start page, but i'm still forced X number of popups per day.
Windows Media 9 is tame.
-malakai
Would you feel better if it was a radio button or or slider rather than a clickable button? Also, it is about as malacious as Winamp, in that you have to allow it to phone home, and you can choose to allow it to report anonymous statistics (just like winamp). I don't see people with pitchforks calling for nullsoft's (er... AOL i guess) heads.
Doubtful. A backdoor is never needed. There's no backdoor to losing the Administrator password on an NT box, yet you can reset it with physical access. Would people be thankfull if there was one? I doubt it, you'd probably have an ape shit.
You are the epitomy of what is wrong with many developers today. You hate your users with a passion much like some land owner has towards his 'peasant' workers. Grow up, listen to your users, respect them and advise them, and with all honesty work towards middle ground.
-malakai
That and the fact Bob was marketed by his Bride to Be Melinda French, I say he managed Face pretty well in that ocasion.
-malakai
The letter seems more like a platform to reiterate common gripes Linux users have with the MS empire. I can't see how anyone who was part of constructing that letter thought it would do any good in the way it was written. It's as if it was written by a French diplomat.
The letter alleges that an email alias at xbox.com might not be staffed due to the "dumping" of xbox's and the poor fiscal performance of the xbox "division".
Also, the letter places restrictions on MS if MS sees fit to given them a key. The mountain in this case, is told which path it should crawl on to get to Mohammad.
It's somewhat comical, and sad at the same time. Either way, useless. If MS _DID_ give them a key, it would be for a specific build/version/signature only. And that just won't make these guys happy.
I recommend the authors of this letter read up a little on basic diplomacy. My recommendations:
"Save face" concept is a way to solve conflicts and avoid embarrassing or discomforting the parties involved.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
If you're going to submit a story about a letter written to MS, please, LINK TO THE LETTER
/. editors to fault with this, as CNet didn't link to the letter either.
Can't hold the
-malakai
I always wondered why people could figure out the Anchor tag. is it that hard?
-malakai