I agree, but the only I see to really allow for good backwards compatibility while simultaneously allowing for new features would be maybe have the document file carry two copies of the document, one formatted in a way that the older one can read, and another with all the pretty formatting when needed. I'm sure there's probably an easier way, plus the older version would have to be able to read it as well.
This brings up an interesting point though, what is changing in the document format so much that the older versions can't make sense of it? I can't think of that many new features that would limit it incredibly, who knows.
With Word XP I can open files from Word 2.x for Windows and on up, including 4.0 and up for Macintosh. I can also open WP 5.x and up documents, rtf, etc.
I use RTF for most documents, as with my experiences, most people on all different platforms can view artf files.
So, yeah, if you use their latest and greatest document format you might run into problems in the future, but there is really no need to unless you are using some whacked out formatting.
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There aren't 3 million words in the dictionary, most have around 600,000. There are many many wordlists all over, but according the website from the article posting, wordlists don't count.
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Assumming about 3,000,000 words in the English Language (http://www.wordorigins.org/number.htm), then we get about 8,999,997,000,000 possible two word combinations (correct that number if needed.) So, I would say it is some time before that is exhausted.
There is also a somewhat easy to prevent google from picking up the posted whack: post it as an image.
I think it must be pretty hard to do this well...
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From the following from google's site, it seems that not only is the number of pages that link to another page taken into account, but the rank of the pages doing the linking. If this is done using 100 weblogs to try to boost the ratings, I highly doubt that would have the same effect as a link from some highly reputable website, etc.
From my own experience, a properly worded search + feeling lucky is about 90% accurate in finding what I'm looking for.
Taken from: http://www.google.com/technology/index.html
PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
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It's not really a challenge, I found a bulletin board once where there a few hundred posted a day, and most people could come up with about 10-20 unique ones in half an hour or so. I did it myself, got real bored with it and decided it was quite a waste of time.
I don't know about needing to be in peak physical condition, we shot John Glenn up there when he was pretty old, he might have be in better shape than most people his age, but I bet he wasn't in that great of shape.
what if (in an alternate universe) Blizzard had gone bankrupt and the Battle.net service shut down? Without projects like bnetd, there would be no way to play these games multiplayer over the internet.
What if Amoco went bankrupt and my illegal gasoline distribution center that pumps oil from their pipelines was shut down? Without my illegal gasoline distribution center, there would be no way to use Amoco fuels in your vehicles!
Yeah no kidding. I'm considering becoming a troll myself. I've posted 400+ comments on/., I've been a member for a long time (user # 14792), and frankly, in the past year or so, I have had very few meaningful dialogues, or seen very few meaningful dialogues here on/.. It's going down the tubes. The comments used to contain more useful information than the article. Now all the comments are "it's a hoax, that's stupid, this is stupid, I'm too dumb to read the article, etc." What happened to intelligent conversation on/.? Someone posts something asking a simple question, they get flamed into the great beyond for not being l33t enough to know everything about everything. Bah./. is no longer the nice friendly community it used to be.
Whatever happened to focusing on the positive? Using moderation points to mod up the good posts. After all, reading the good stuff is more important than filtering out the crap. I do that on my own by browsing at +3.
Yeah you stupid mother flurcking piece of poo face moderators, don't you know how to read a whole flurcking comment before you moderate it? Come on. What a joke. I wish I was a moderator all the time so I could mod all the good posts -1 offtopic of -1 overrated, and all the funny posts +9999 funny, cuz funny stuff is all that matters.
Just because the instructor changed the book, doesn't mean you have to buy the new one. Most of my profs will tell you that if you have the older edition, just keep it, as not much changed. I've actually seen instructors complain just as much as students about the publishers coming out with new versions every year.
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I use adsubtract, I didn't even know there were new ads, let alone any ads at all, I plain forgot they existed =]
I don't know about your school, but all the ones I have been to have all the software you need in all the labs and libraries on the computers there. If you're living in a dorm, it's not like it'll kill ya to spend a couple of hours on campus in the library/lab would it?
I get it for free through my university =P I'm sure someone, somewhere is paying for it though, probably me, but certainly not the same price that most people are.
I recall hearing that bird's eyes work at very high frequencies, does that mean our houses are blinking like Christmas trees to them? That's an interesting thought =]
Agreed, non lethal weapons should carry the same rules that lethal weapons do, or at least, somewhere near that strict. (i.e. you can use them to assist in the apprehension of an unwilling detainee).
Although, now that I think about it, I would much prefer the cops had nothing but non lethal weapons, otherwise they are given a sort of 'instant executive right' to dole out the death penalty as they see fit, and I wouldn't quite consider 1 cop with a gun a jury of my peers.
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This brings up an interesting point though, what is changing in the document format so much that the older versions can't make sense of it? I can't think of that many new features that would limit it incredibly, who knows.
I use RTF for most documents, as with my experiences, most people on all different platforms can view artf files.
So, yeah, if you use their latest and greatest document format you might run into problems in the future, but there is really no need to unless you are using some whacked out formatting.
There aren't 3 million words in the dictionary, most have around 600,000. There are many many wordlists all over, but according the website from the article posting, wordlists don't count.
Assumming about 3,000,000 words in the English Language (http://www.wordorigins.org/number.htm), then we get about 8,999,997,000,000 possible two word combinations (correct that number if needed.) So, I would say it is some time before that is exhausted.
There is also a somewhat easy to prevent google from picking up the posted whack: post it as an image.
From my own experience, a properly worded search + feeling lucky is about 90% accurate in finding what I'm looking for.
Taken from: http://www.google.com/technology/index.html
PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
It's not really a challenge, I found a bulletin board once where there a few hundred posted a day, and most people could come up with about 10-20 unique ones in half an hour or so. I did it myself, got real bored with it and decided it was quite a waste of time.
Uhm.. MX is the common accepted abbreviation for Mail Exchange, it's used in DNS entries, etc.
I think the analogy has been stretched beyond its capacity.
As long as they aren't hijacking Amoco's tankers, I think they'll be alright.
I don't know about needing to be in peak physical condition, we shot John Glenn up there when he was pretty old, he might have be in better shape than most people his age, but I bet he wasn't in that great of shape.
What if Amoco went bankrupt and my illegal gasoline distribution center that pumps oil from their pipelines was shut down? Without my illegal gasoline distribution center, there would be no way to use Amoco fuels in your vehicles!
You're blaming the wrong party here buddy.
There was a forum somewhere on /. for this once, but it wasn't really publicized.
Yeah no kidding. I'm considering becoming a troll myself. I've posted 400+ comments on /., I've been a member for a long time (user # 14792), and frankly, in the past year or so, I have had very few meaningful dialogues, or seen very few meaningful dialogues here on /.. It's going down the tubes. The comments used to contain more useful information than the article. Now all the comments are "it's a hoax, that's stupid, this is stupid, I'm too dumb to read the article, etc." What happened to intelligent conversation on /.? Someone posts something asking a simple question, they get flamed into the great beyond for not being l33t enough to know everything about everything. Bah. /. is no longer the nice friendly community it used to be.
Whatever happened to focusing on the positive? Using moderation points to mod up the good posts. After all, reading the good stuff is more important than filtering out the crap. I do that on my own by browsing at +3.
Yeah you stupid mother flurcking piece of poo face moderators, don't you know how to read a whole flurcking comment before you moderate it? Come on. What a joke. I wish I was a moderator all the time so I could mod all the good posts -1 offtopic of -1 overrated, and all the funny posts +9999 funny, cuz funny stuff is all that matters.
Just because the instructor changed the book, doesn't mean you have to buy the new one. Most of my profs will tell you that if you have the older edition, just keep it, as not much changed. I've actually seen instructors complain just as much as students about the publishers coming out with new versions every year.
I use adsubtract, I didn't even know there were new ads, let alone any ads at all, I plain forgot they existed =]
I don't know about your school, but all the ones I have been to have all the software you need in all the labs and libraries on the computers there. If you're living in a dorm, it's not like it'll kill ya to spend a couple of hours on campus in the library/lab would it?
If you want to warez your books, sell them to students instead of your bookstore, everyone wins in that deal. =]
I get it for free through my university =P I'm sure someone, somewhere is paying for it though, probably me, but certainly not the same price that most people are.
I won't bother explaining, read the other comments posted.
better just break the LED, never know if any of that light is still getting around your duct tape.
I recall hearing that bird's eyes work at very high frequencies, does that mean our houses are blinking like Christmas trees to them? That's an interesting thought =]
I think that most cameras actually run at about 30 Hz.
Although, now that I think about it, I would much prefer the cops had nothing but non lethal weapons, otherwise they are given a sort of 'instant executive right' to dole out the death penalty as they see fit, and I wouldn't quite consider 1 cop with a gun a jury of my peers.