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  1. patented and copyrighted on Microsoft Opening Office XML Formats · · Score: 1

    This makes it GPL incompatible. In the USA Period.

    No Software patents here, and all I have to do to get around the copyright is recreate the facts in the material using my own presentation.

  2. Re:Hold on... on Microsoft Opening Office XML Formats · · Score: 1

    So long as you don't compile the reference schemas into you GPL product there's nothing that Microsoft can do.

    Just like if I dynamically link my commercial close source app against a GPL library (e.g. mesa) there's nothing that the FSA can do.

  3. Re:No, *I* am Spartacus! on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    Well, this is how <A href-"http://www.powerquest.com/">this</a> site looks under lynx + /. lameness, not like <a href="http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/dailysucker/ ">the suckers</a> <a href="http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/powerquest.j pg">will have you think</a>...

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  4. Re:No, *I* am Spartacus! on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    that's what they said about Jesus, absolute genius when it came to spelling.

  5. Re:No, *I* am Spartacus! on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    'but there was a dot.com company'

    Like this one

  6. Re:Insightful??? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    I think I'm serious.

    Woman drivers, what do you expect.

  7. Re:No, *I* am Spartacus! on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't be in business if it wasn't good.
    Microsoft screwed up, look how much money they make.

  8. Re:No, *I* am Spartacus! on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    It also costs them nothing more if you use a screen reader or IE instead of Lynx.

    Show me a Dev who can code something that's got a good look and feel to bobby and 902 compliance etc... as quickly as a web monkey can knock something up in flash.

    Oh, and they have to cost 'less' by you mark.

    "And less to hire web devs...."

    So, it begs the question What the fuck are you on about?

  9. Re:No, *I* am Spartacus! on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    It should teach you that people can ignore you and still function perfectly haply and even make and probably make more money that if they had catered for you.

    When was the last time you purchased taylor made shoes?

  10. Re:Insightful??? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man found molesting child was eating apples.

    That's head line new, a man was arrested whilst eating apples.

    You watch too much FOX.

  11. double morons on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You don't even have to be using Lynx to get put away in the UK.

  12. Re:Script Data Structures in place of XML on W3C launches Binary XML Packaging · · Score: 1

    I'm currently writing some C code and I'm using char* pointers and C structures instead of XML,
    you should see how fast my app runs.

    I believe this is the way the linux kernel does things.

    XML is good for data interchange between anonymous sources any other use is more or less an abuse.

  13. Europe. on Zimmermann Enters Debate on Microsoft Encryption · · Score: 1

    Ok, so Europe smurope or whatever...
    You can keep on extending your copyrights as long as you want, but so long as here in Europe we don't we get to copy all the stuff you pay for.

    Yes, Elvis has just entered the public domain.

  14. Re:copyright on Zimmermann Enters Debate on Microsoft Encryption · · Score: 1

    Isn't that exactly what the bug in Microsoft's code is? a fault that makes it easier to brute-force.

  15. copyright on Zimmermann Enters Debate on Microsoft Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How else are we supposed to get access to all these works in 150 years time (or 50 in some countries) when the copyright expires on them.

  16. There's always the warcraft mod. on Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games · · Score: 1

    wait until groupLargeEnough()

    IF playerCanSeeMe() THEN
    IF coverNear() && rand() > 0.5 THEN
    takeCover();
    ELSE
    standUp();
    shoot();
    ENDIF
    ELSE
    advanceTowardsPlayer();
    ENDIF

    most games nowadays are so predictable that you can work out the NPC after the first couple of levels and cream the rest,

    It would be really nice if the AI included look at what the other NPC's are doing take appropriate action, if only half life has have included it I wouldn't have wasted so many grenades trying to kill my own NPC's.

  17. Re:games on IBM Desktop Linux Pledge, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    Cedega? wine should have much better d3x9 support in the next week or so.

    I've almost finished off swapchains today, and I'm about to write a plugable render manager so that you can choose between performance, compatibility or memory usage and your not stuck with PBuffers when you ATI card support render to texture.

    Current issues are:

    The Shader code still needs to be migrated from d3d8 and shader 2.0 code needs writing. (WineD3D will creates nice stubs so that apps will still run)

    An issue with the vertex pipeline crashing or not working under some circumstances.

    Slight performance issues (though not that much worse than Cedega), the plugable render managers should sort that out.

    A minor? issue with wrapping coords.

    And Queries don't return real data yet, but that's kinda accademic.

    Many of the demos I've been running work find under wine, but won't run under cedega.

    Oh, and you get the source code with wine so it shouldn't be too hard to fix any problems you have...

  18. Re:.88%? on Firefox Continues Gains against IE · · Score: 1

    I think the GP's point was the the least popular sites say popup-pron or gimiwarez are going to be visited more by firefox users because IE would have choked on popups or diallers before you found what you were looking for.

  19. I see you point.. on Firefox Continues Gains against IE · · Score: 1

    Exactly, what's the point of monitoring the whole world when you know that people who take informed decisions aren't going to believe your marketing and hype anyway.

    I think they should have picked sites visited by people with sub 100 IQs, maybe TV guides or FOX (since all the geeks supernova their TV anyway and /. for their news).

    So in this case we have the worst case scenario, the corporations pander to Joe Sixpack, ignore the moderates and are the rich.

  20. Re:At least they have the guts... on Chinese DVD Makers Sue Over Royalties · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, which fat cat in China is getting richer because of this.

  21. Re:Seems kinda silly to me. on Streaming a Database in Real Time · · Score: 1

    'Wouldn't you want to track the status of an alert saying "this Humvee is off course"?'

    It depends on you application, unless your running a black-box the best course of action would be to relay the message to the driver of the Humvee.

    It's also real handy when you get asked to produce the data in court.

  22. Re:EJB? on No More Players for World of Warcraft - For Now · · Score: 1

    Oracle JDevleop and Java support built into the heart of Oracle, it must be .net centric, and all the consultants fresh out of the banks that suggested Oracle also said use .NET not Java.

  23. Re:and you will have to desolder the flash on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1

    You can clamp a surface mount,
    can't you get flash chips that store a working version and a known good version and can overwrite the working version more or less instantly by setting a pin high.

  24. XMLSPY. on Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL · · Score: 1

    Support for XSL wasn't bad a few years ago, and it even better now, maybe not of you sub XMLSPY's quite good and it runs under wine.

  25. not that many. on Environment Variables - Dev/Test/Production? · · Score: 1

    I've had far more problems because of 'bad' developers who do things use single character variable names, fail to add up accounting systems or code using local dates so that we have to make sure out SQL servers run US local.

    Embedded systems and blackbox development all have there problems, but you should be able recognise them and compensate, having a few experienced engineers on the team will help everything go smoothly (and tell you when it's not)

    First off,

    Make sure your procedures are reasonally well tied down, automation helps a lot since people always forget to cross the t's.

    Then make sure that you development environment is robust, put in good revision management software and make sure it intergrates properly with the feature tracking and bug software.

    Make sure the flow of communication between production and QA, QA and developement is good, if possible try to give production 'some' access to the bug-feature tracking system.

    Finally,
    Make sure that as much as possible is proofed, bugs should have test cases (where possible), and releases should be 'delta' and have rollbacks. Try to test the rollout before going gold. You don't need the entire production environment just a few boxes.

    In the past I've done sandboxed and VM based testing, I've also used a small server in the production environment to test rollouts and preform regression testing that the software could switch to allow the clients QA team to perform testing.

    Portability and migration issues never amount to the problems you get from poor initial design, programmers who don't get enough sleep or failing to hire enough experienced employees.