Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE): While this was created in 2005, Microsoft hopes for SSE to gain momentum and compete with the RSS standard in 2006. SSE extends the RSS 2.0 specification from unidirectional to bidirectional information flows. Microsoft even released it under the Creative Commons license, the same license covering RSS 2.0.
My first thought: "This sounds like a future MS Server attack vector to me". Please Microsoft (I know there are a few of you here), think of security first when you implement this in IIS. You don't need another black eye and I don't need another headache. Call me troll, call me jaded, call me disillusioned, call me a realist - I don't care. Just please implement it right.
Why aren't the programmers that worked on any given buggy module ever named?
Do you know how many people that would be for WMF? It's been around as a file format almost 20 years. I bet there's at least a hundred people who have touched the MS WMF parsing code. Find who whote the exploitable lines of code you say? Fine, spend the time going back through that 20 years of versioning to blame someone for code they probably wrote over a decade ago - a process that would take longer than patching the exploit. That'll be effective.
A better idea would be deprecating the WMF format itself. If you ask me, it should have died years ago but MS kept it alive because of MS Office clipart. Other than that, nobody uses the format.
How is having a DRM ebook different than having an actual book on this point? If you bought a real book, you wouldn't be able to post it on the web, so why should this be any different?
Copying to the internet (piracy) isn't the point. In 15 years, when the current file formats for ebooks are dead or waaaay depricated, handing that book to your kid to read will be a bitch. Sure most people moan about not being able to transfer books between such-and-such pieces of hardware as it is, but possibly not being able to use it in a decade or so is what's kept me away from non-plain text formats.
Forget military use (killing), how would this work as a survivor searching tool (saving lives) after earthquakes and such? I bet DARPA won't let us "private secor" folk make it useful though. You know: "because people could use it for terror and someone might be killed by that terrorist. Save lives wih a weapon - stupid liberals"
This is part of the star process and why some musicians cringe at a certain level of fame. Take a band starting out: they work for years doing gigs playing and refining say 15-25 original songs. They get a recording contract and release an album a year (to stay relevant) for four years. Within a couple of albums, they have released the songs that took them two or three years of constant hard work to perfect (playing them live, practices, writing sessions) and now need to churn out a new album's worth of music in only one year. If they have been smart, they have been writing new material along the way and have had plenty of opportunity to try them out on audiences. Unfortunately, a lot of people will not be smart and waste the time:
a) partying b) playing only their 'hits' at shows c) making 'appearances' at hollywood type events d) traveling to and from the above things e) figured they would write it all in the studio (limited time - $$) f) all of the above
From having explored a few artistic talents of my own and having known a couple of (in)famous people, I can assure you it's a similar burnout process for other things such as TV, painting, game development, etc. Working for years to 'make it' and neglecting to work after you have 'made it' is the biggest trap there is in any kind of fame.
With lawyers, of course, it is Q&A, so one of the most common space fillers is to repeat the prior answer as part of your next question.
A group of old attorney friends of mine used to call it Matlocking: "Everything was going fine, until Nate started matlocking during the depo. I thought the court reporter was going to kill him after 20 minutes of typing everything twice". Kind of like monologueing in the incredibles.
Some think it lends a know-it-all air of authority to the questioner, but after many a drunken discussion with them it's just a way for the questioner to get time to think or (in the case of one friend) remember what the witness actually said. These guys were work-comp attorneys, so they were a bit oddball and irreverent in the first place. Boy, did they havesome great parties;)
With more Women online, my chances of getting laid are now bigger!
You got it wrong man! We gotta stop this! How long until your next deathmatch is spent camping the catering talking to chix? How long until your HUD has smart looking drapes? I tell you, the internet was made by the military to let us men blow shit up virtually and they can pry my mouse from my cold dead hands when women...
Good point. Ok, we'll let the cute ones use it. And the ones who put out. But that's it! Oh, and Sal's girlfriend too. Sorry Sal.
With power that big, we could go back to the days of plugging our monitor into the PC's power supply, right? I kinda miss those days. It was easy to just attach the monitor's power supply cable to the video cable with some zip ties and have everything tidy. Now that I have a dual display system and lots of USB hoopla, every cable that can be kept tidy helps.
Don't bother with a normal laserjet or inkjet. Get a solid envelope printer like the PB DA400. Prints envelopes up to 13"x15". Bowes is expensive, but they have good service. I've used several printers like this on and this one. All seem to work well with the normal printer caveats of jams and running out of ink eventually.
After that, the most common form of biodiesel supply is oil palms.
If you've ever seen the middle of the United States you would swear it was made completely of corn, a prime biodiesel source. In the US we grow so much of it due to subsidies that it's in most of what we eat. Here, that's pretty much what biodiesel equates to: Nebraska... er... Corn.
Not that this makes it any better of solution for the UK, but it's been a huge part of the US energy debate since the 70s.
The idea of using the misspelled words will not work for someone using a screen reader.
Good point. There must be some way to get a screen reader to read off letters tough. That would work for the mis-spelling only example. "O n i a d P t a t e g" maybe?...gotta download a screen reader to test...
Searching for word names of numbers is almost as easy as solving the math. I have a few standard functions in my code library that translate words to numbers and back in at least three languages. I can bet most other programmers do too. Good idea, but some random mis-spellings of the words would make it better. For example:
Challenge: "sevn t1mes thrree"
Response: "21" Humans are good at figuring out missspelled words and what they are. I guess someone could use a spell check library, but massaging it to hack might be more trouble than it's worth.
Maybe something that mis-spells words in the first place might work. Say, provide the wrong letters: Challenge: "Oniad Ptateg" (hint: America ) Response: "NTSS"
but I believe it is possible to write off donations against tax. In this case, it would be possible for a company to fund the administration of a charity at zero cost
INACPA (I'm not an accountant)... It would take the employees to file their yearly loss (because of hours "worked" at the charity instead of a job) as a charitable write-off because a charity (or other non-profit) cannot contribute to itself. Most donations that can be written off in the US have tangible value (cars, money, food), so writing off an employee's loss of income would be near impossible since it has no tangible value. Your company might be able to "donate" you to a charity and write off your salary though I bet.
There were only a handful of automobiles (all of them "experimental") on the North American continent when the first documented reports emerged (1880s)
Not taking sides here, but how long has the highway the "lights" are "coming from" been there? Carriages had lantern light for centuries. With metal focus elements since the early 1800s I think. "Vehicle light" might be a better term then. Merely a theory.
the field shift is kind interesting considering it is accelerating. And acceleration can't occur without an outside force acting on it.
Here's some better info on the magnetic field. I doubt an outside force needs to be involved with something as dynamic as the mantle. It's pretty much a world of it's own within ours.
Excuse me for sounding dumb, but what is Ruby on Rails? I've heard a lot about it recently, but haven't the slightest clue what it is. A little bit of background would be most appreciated.
This is the exact reason that Lex Luthor keeps superman around.
You should get a copy of Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again and read it. It is such a nice finisher for the franchises involved. Dark and brutal but true to the core of the stories (comic companies do that waaaayyyy better than films).
There are lots of people here saying "how could you sell out" types of things because MS funded your study. I honestly don't think you're selling out - you had a job and did it as fairly as you could I'm betting. Not many of us would have the panache to even try that. We get to read the results and agree or not.
My question is, how could we get Ms/Oracle/Red Hat/Novell/(other tech rival) to jointly fund a report? To my knowledge, there haven't been any reports from a jointly funded by rivals point of view (I'm sure someone here will try to point one out, but magazine/web "shootouts" don't count to me). How could we as customers help create a situation where competitors saying "let's see who's better - together" would be viable? I ask you because you've been through the setup process for a review and have perspective which most of us lack.
mostly because people can patent even a Turd shape over there
Actually, the turd would probably fall under copyright. The method for shaping said turd would be patentable though. Not that I disagree with you at all. I agree. The idea that the turd would fall under a "seperate set" of laws illustrates how convoluted the laws have become.
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A better idea would be deprecating the WMF format itself. If you ask me, it should have died years ago but MS kept it alive because of MS Office clipart. Other than that, nobody uses the format.
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Forget military use (killing), how would this work as a survivor searching tool (saving lives) after earthquakes and such? I bet DARPA won't let us "private secor" folk make it useful though. You know: "because people could use it for terror and someone might be killed by that terrorist. Save lives wih a weapon - stupid liberals"
a) partying
b) playing only their 'hits' at shows
c) making 'appearances' at hollywood type events
d) traveling to and from the above things
e) figured they would write it all in the studio (limited time - $$)
f) all of the above
From having explored a few artistic talents of my own and having known a couple of (in)famous people, I can assure you it's a similar burnout process for other things such as TV, painting, game development, etc. Working for years to 'make it' and neglecting to work after you have 'made it' is the biggest trap there is in any kind of fame.
Some think it lends a know-it-all air of authority to the questioner, but after many a drunken discussion with them it's just a way for the questioner to get time to think or (in the case of one friend) remember what the witness actually said. These guys were work-comp attorneys, so they were a bit oddball and irreverent in the first place. Boy, did they havesome great parties ;)
Good point. Ok, we'll let the cute ones use it. And the ones who put out. But that's it! Oh, and Sal's girlfriend too. Sorry Sal.
With power that big, we could go back to the days of plugging our monitor into the PC's power supply, right? I kinda miss those days. It was easy to just attach the monitor's power supply cable to the video cable with some zip ties and have everything tidy. Now that I have a dual display system and lots of USB hoopla, every cable that can be kept tidy helps.
Don't bother with a normal laserjet or inkjet. Get a solid envelope printer like the PB DA400. Prints envelopes up to 13"x15". Bowes is expensive, but they have good service. I've used several printers like this on and this one. All seem to work well with the normal printer caveats of jams and running out of ink eventually.
Not that this makes it any better of solution for the UK, but it's been a huge part of the US energy debate since the 70s.
Thanks for the link. The Wiki has more info than the official site even.
I noticed a typo in the mis-spell example. The response should have been "UTSS". Sorry about that... damned phone calls while I'm "busy" posting.
Challenge: "sevn t1mes thrree"
Response: "21"
Humans are good at figuring out missspelled words and what they are. I guess someone could use a spell check library, but massaging it to hack might be more trouble than it's worth.
Maybe something that mis-spells words in the first place might work. Say, provide the wrong letters:
Challenge: "Oniad Ptateg" (hint: America )
Response: "NTSS"
Try one of these. I have an older one and it's pretty durable.
My question is, how could we get Ms/Oracle/Red Hat/Novell/(other tech rival) to jointly fund a report? To my knowledge, there haven't been any reports from a jointly funded by rivals point of view (I'm sure someone here will try to point one out, but magazine/web "shootouts" don't count to me). How could we as customers help create a situation where competitors saying "let's see who's better - together" would be viable? I ask you because you've been through the setup process for a review and have perspective which most of us lack.