The problem you have with Word is you don't know how to use it. It can do all the things you say and more. It can create hierarchical sections (like h1, h2, h3).
No it can't. It can fake it, and it does a good job of faking it about 80% of the time. 20% of the time the underlying lack of nesting comes out like pus from a forgotten wound and ruins my nice clean shirt.
My personal copy of Word 97 has features I use that I've still yet to find in Open Office 3.
So? OO is one of those word processors that has copied the horrible Word document structure. It's just Word in drag as far as I'm concerned.
I'd rather edit text in raw HTML, using TECO, on paper tape.
Attempting to enforce more structure than the users want will only cause them to not use the product or just use it "wrong".
Who said anything about attempting to force them to use more structure? There's pure HTML editors that are as easy to use as any word processor, that don't shove nested objects down your throat. Having proper nesting available doesn't mean forcing people to hew to a strict DOM.
It's an appaling word processor, providing absolutely minimal structuring for documents... its paragraph-based structure is almost as primitive as the early macro-based text formatters of the '60s and '70s, and years behind the formatters of the late '70s and '80s. HTML is more sophisticated, with formal nested objects that don't do things like breaking a nested list if you insert a paragraph in the middle of one of the bullets.
Worse, since Word compatibility is so important, virtually all word processors that have come out since Word became dominant have copied the abysmal layout and document structure model.
Open systems: systems based on unencumbered specifications for interfaces and protocols, usually with multiple interoperating implementations.
Closed systems: systems that are restricted in who can interoperate with and implement them, for example they may require commercial licensing.
Standards: Specifications for interfaces and protocols.
Open source systems: systems for which a freely redistributable implementation exists.
Not all systems fall clearly into the "open" or "closed" camp... these are really extremes along a continuum.
An open source system is usually not a closed system, but it may be if it is encumbered by patents or licensing that limits its use. An open source system may or may not be an open system... for example, a system with a single implementation where the specification for the interfaces and protocols is defined by that implementation should probably not be considered an open system, even if it's open source.
Open standards: I would assume this means standards that are unencumbered by licensing issues, anyone can implement them. Standards by definition are "open" to some degree simply by being standards, so qualifying the term with "open" means you're making a stronger statement than just "it's a standard".
Not that someone riding a motorcycle is working any harder, adds Graham, but because he's sitting astride it, he appears to be making an effort.
Also, the guy on the motorcycle isn't riding it on the bloody sidewalk, taking up as much of the sidewalk as two or three people abreast.
imagine something that worked like the Segway, but that you rode with one foot in front of the other, like a skateboard. That wouldn't seem nearly as uncool.
Try riding a skateboard on a busy sidewalk, some time, and see how far that "cool" takes you. I remember when I was at Berkeley and getting around on my skateboard I had to watch for campus cops whenever I got on university grounds... because they were banned.
And skateboards don't take up as much space, and you can stop and pick them up when you have to go up stairs.
people go to search engines to search for something specific rather than general idle reading, that's a different type of reader (and one that isn't as valuable).
The guy who uses a clipping service IS that kind of reader, whether you like it or not. Having him buy someone else's newspaper, or go to someone else's website, isn't in your interests no matter what kind of reader you'd *prefer* he be.
Google cached them all and made it possible to read all of them without ever going to my site.
Theoretically, yes, but unless you've got some really oddball content or you somehow got a reputation for truly awesomely broken and spammy advertising, maybe one person in 100 will use Google's cache at all, and of those maybe one person in 100 will do so consistently. Clicking on the Google cache link and getting an out-of-date framed page with broken links is just not as useful as going to the real site.
Nah, that was a patent dispute. Those are a dime a dozen. You can't move without tripping over a submarine patent.
This isn't a company developing software on their own and then discovering some troll has patented something obvious they depend on. This is a company buying a complete product, and forgetting to actually make sure the product they thought they were buying was listed in the contract.
Didn't we just have this a few years ago... oh no, that was SCO forgetting to actually buy UNIX from Novell. I wonder how many other companies will turn out not to own the software they think they own?
I said you can't load prices of products onto the machine without some sort of network connection or sneakernet
Small business, single register, whoever's entering codes and prices, if there's even a scanner (and there usually isn't) they'd be doing data entry at that register itself, after hours, because it's the only computer in the store.
And once you have a network connection or sneakernet, the system could be exploited through that.
I gave you the IP address for my PowerMac running Mac OS 9 and unpatched IE 3 or whatever version ran on a Mac in 1997. Exploit that.
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Hey dude, don't be afraid You were made for something better To comment on thing you understand Then you begin, to make/. better
And any time you feel inane, hey dude, refrain Don't carry a chip upon your shoulder For well you know your trolls aren't very cool And/. won't mod you higher mod mod mod- mod mod- mod mod mod mod...
The only place where mosquitoes are involved here is that they're exposing the volunteers to mosquitoes to infect them with parasites that are weakened (in their body) through quinine. That part, that is, using mosquitoes to infect the people with parasites, is the part that's not commercially viable... the company in Rockville is using externally weakened parasites... weakened OUTSIDE the body by radiation... no mosquitoes involved.
The available documentation for Noble Ape is fairly shallow and opaque, it describes a simple scripting language, and some high leve discussion about space, time, and so on... but that's about it. Where's the AI? How exactly does the model simulate an ape, what's the relationship of the model to ApeScript? Where, in short, is the FAQ?
Without a network, the register can't import product prices or export quantities sold.
If you're a small store with one register (which is the typical environment you'll find this kind of system) where are you importing prices *from*, or exporting them *to*? Even if you have a network in your store, there's no reason to connect it to the Internet. If it's running Windows 3.1 or MS-DOS it's probably running raw Lan Manager, and doesn't even have a TCP/IP stack loaded.
The PowerMac on my scanner is at 10.0.0.144, and it's got no default router set. How are you going to attack it?
My first Macintosh was just Macintosh, not Macintosh Anything, 128K, model M00001. No network interface or slot for one, let alone a network stack. Last I checked with the guy I gave it to, a couple years back, it was still working.
Yes, Virginia, once upon a time there were many computers without any networking support at all. Really. They still work. They don't just stop working when they go EOL.
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I've gotten mail that's an Excel spreadsheet with the text entered into all the cells. So I believe you.
The problem you have with Word is you don't know how to use it. It can do all the things you say and more. It can create hierarchical sections (like h1, h2, h3).
No it can't. It can fake it, and it does a good job of faking it about 80% of the time. 20% of the time the underlying lack of nesting comes out like pus from a forgotten wound and ruins my nice clean shirt.
My personal copy of Word 97 has features I use that I've still yet to find in Open Office 3.
So? OO is one of those word processors that has copied the horrible Word document structure. It's just Word in drag as far as I'm concerned.
I'd rather edit text in raw HTML, using TECO, on paper tape.
Attempting to enforce more structure than the users want will only cause them to not use the product or just use it "wrong".
Who said anything about attempting to force them to use more structure? There's pure HTML editors that are as easy to use as any word processor, that don't shove nested objects down your throat. Having proper nesting available doesn't mean forcing people to hew to a strict DOM.
It's an appaling word processor, providing absolutely minimal structuring for documents... its paragraph-based structure is almost as primitive as the early macro-based text formatters of the '60s and '70s, and years behind the formatters of the late '70s and '80s. HTML is more sophisticated, with formal nested objects that don't do things like breaking a nested list if you insert a paragraph in the middle of one of the bullets.
Worse, since Word compatibility is so important, virtually all word processors that have come out since Word became dominant have copied the abysmal layout and document structure model.
This is a pre-emptive move to keep Joe's Crab Shack from expanding into electronics kits in their kid's meals.
Open systems: systems based on unencumbered specifications for interfaces and protocols, usually with multiple interoperating implementations.
Closed systems: systems that are restricted in who can interoperate with and implement them, for example they may require commercial licensing.
Standards: Specifications for interfaces and protocols.
Open source systems: systems for which a freely redistributable implementation exists.
Not all systems fall clearly into the "open" or "closed" camp... these are really extremes along a continuum.
An open source system is usually not a closed system, but it may be if it is encumbered by patents or licensing that limits its use. An open source system may or may not be an open system... for example, a system with a single implementation where the specification for the interfaces and protocols is defined by that implementation should probably not be considered an open system, even if it's open source.
Open standards: I would assume this means standards that are unencumbered by licensing issues, anyone can implement them. Standards by definition are "open" to some degree simply by being standards, so qualifying the term with "open" means you're making a stronger statement than just "it's a standard".
Not that someone riding a motorcycle is working any harder, adds Graham, but because he's sitting astride it, he appears to be making an effort.
Also, the guy on the motorcycle isn't riding it on the bloody sidewalk, taking up as much of the sidewalk as two or three people abreast.
imagine something that worked like the Segway, but that you rode with one foot in front of the other, like a skateboard. That wouldn't seem nearly as uncool.
Try riding a skateboard on a busy sidewalk, some time, and see how far that "cool" takes you. I remember when I was at Berkeley and getting around on my skateboard I had to watch for campus cops whenever I got on university grounds... because they were banned.
And skateboards don't take up as much space, and you can stop and pick them up when you have to go up stairs.
Just following Taco's lead.
One of the first MBR-infecting virused was "Stoned".
Wikipedia entry.
people go to search engines to search for something specific rather than general idle reading, that's a different type of reader (and one that isn't as valuable).
The guy who uses a clipping service IS that kind of reader, whether you like it or not. Having him buy someone else's newspaper, or go to someone else's website, isn't in your interests no matter what kind of reader you'd *prefer* he be.
Google cached them all and made it possible to read all of them without ever going to my site.
Theoretically, yes, but unless you've got some really oddball content or you somehow got a reputation for truly awesomely broken and spammy advertising, maybe one person in 100 will use Google's cache at all, and of those maybe one person in 100 will do so consistently. Clicking on the Google cache link and getting an out-of-date framed page with broken links is just not as useful as going to the real site.
However, would you like it if, instead of visiting your site every day, they visited a central site that listed the stories on it instead.
You mean like google?
They still have to buy the newspaper or visit the website to read the actual story.
What is this, a game company making a game fun, first?
They must be Indy, yes no?
You ever use IBM's *first* personal computer, the model 5100?
Nah, that was a patent dispute. Those are a dime a dozen. You can't move without tripping over a submarine patent.
This isn't a company developing software on their own and then discovering some troll has patented something obvious they depend on. This is a company buying a complete product, and forgetting to actually make sure the product they thought they were buying was listed in the contract.
Your story is an exceptionally good analogy, except for the fact that SCO never developed Unix nor had any relationship with IBM
Where did I mention IBM? Oh, I didn't!
Didn't we just have this a few years ago... oh no, that was SCO forgetting to actually buy UNIX from Novell. I wonder how many other companies will turn out not to own the software they think they own?
I said you can't load prices of products onto the machine without some sort of network connection or sneakernet
Small business, single register, whoever's entering codes and prices, if there's even a scanner (and there usually isn't) they'd be doing data entry at that register itself, after hours, because it's the only computer in the store.
And once you have a network connection or sneakernet, the system could be exploited through that.
I gave you the IP address for my PowerMac running Mac OS 9 and unpatched IE 3 or whatever version ran on a Mac in 1997. Exploit that.
Hey dude, don't be a prat /. better
It's an analogy, it's just a metaphor
Remember, to let your brain engage
Then you can start, to make
Hey dude, don't be afraid /. better
You were made for something better
To comment on thing you understand
Then you begin, to make
And any time you feel inane, hey dude, refrain /. won't mod you higher
Don't carry a chip upon your shoulder
For well you know your trolls aren't very cool
And
mod mod mod- mod mod- mod mod mod mod...
OK, UNDERSTAND the fine article.
The only place where mosquitoes are involved here is that they're exposing the volunteers to mosquitoes to infect them with parasites that are weakened (in their body) through quinine. That part, that is, using mosquitoes to infect the people with parasites, is the part that's not commercially viable... the company in Rockville is using externally weakened parasites... weakened OUTSIDE the body by radiation... no mosquitoes involved.
The "vaccine" is the parasite itself... oh just RTFA.
The available documentation for Noble Ape is fairly shallow and opaque, it describes a simple scripting language, and some high leve discussion about space, time, and so on... but that's about it. Where's the AI? How exactly does the model simulate an ape, what's the relationship of the model to ApeScript? Where, in short, is the FAQ?
Without a network, the register can't import product prices or export quantities sold.
If you're a small store with one register (which is the typical environment you'll find this kind of system) where are you importing prices *from*, or exporting them *to*? Even if you have a network in your store, there's no reason to connect it to the Internet. If it's running Windows 3.1 or MS-DOS it's probably running raw Lan Manager, and doesn't even have a TCP/IP stack loaded.
The PowerMac on my scanner is at 10.0.0.144, and it's got no default router set. How are you going to attack it?
My first Macintosh was just Macintosh, not Macintosh Anything, 128K, model M00001. No network interface or slot for one, let alone a network stack. Last I checked with the guy I gave it to, a couple years back, it was still working.
Yes, Virginia, once upon a time there were many computers without any networking support at all. Really. They still work. They don't just stop working when they go EOL.
Well, we really don't know what will happen to XP installs after 2014, or whether someone will be able to re-activate an XP re-installation then.
I can always go back and install Windows 2000.
Someone would just get a certificate that managed to put the ".badguy.com" part starting at byte 255 of some string.
Null is not a legal character in a domain name, even if you're using UTF strings. It shouldn't be allowed in a certificate.