Thanks for the analysis. And to you and the other guy commenting, I thought the purpose of the schema URI's were exactly to provide places where the respective schemas could be retrieved, but I guess I was wrong about that. It was never meant as an attack just because it's an XML document generated by Microsoft software, I just found it... funny.:-)
But that makes me wonder why they're made to look like URL's when they don't actually represent valid ones.:-S Sounds illogical. If they were just made to uniquely represent schemas, why on earth make them follow the URL syntax with "http://" and everything?? What's supposed to be transferred with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol again? Something like "schema://blahblah" would look more logical to me.
Just to give you an idea of how it might look in the most simple case possible. This is a XML Document saved from Word 2003. Yes, it's not retail yet, but it's the RTM version.:-)
All settings (fonts, line spacing, etc) are using defaults and it contains the text "Hello World". No line breaks are removed. It spits out this mess.:-)
I find it funny that the schema URL's for the various namespaces don't point to existing URL's.
OK, I thought you wrote that because it was too complex to use. If you do understand it and it's just a wish that they should consider improving the UI, you should mention that in their forum (temporarily down when writing this). Then you make both your voice heard, and also give them a chance to improve the software to work more like you wish it to. Of course, if you'd never consider switching to that IM regardless that, there would be no point.
Hmm, but it would take a heck of a long time to fill up that pipeline so it was used to 100%, and it seems hard to make optimal use of it. Imagine a simple failed branch prediction. Eeeeempty pipeline and fiiiill it up again.:-S
It places high demands on the rest of the architecture to make an optimal use of such a super long pipeline.
But maybe it's worth it then, even when considering the problems with it.
I'm sure Miranda is great for IM power users who have an account with every major service and manipulate their "away" or "busy" status separately for each service
Actually, Miranda is great for me who originally just used it for ICQ. Nothing else. Now I also use it to communicate with some MSN contacts. I never set my away or busy status separately for each service and have never seen a reason to.
Anyway, all I can say is that you and your sister is missing a good utility. It takes approximately 1 minute to figure out what the question "import old database" means (it means "bring in my contacts"). But it's your choice to stay with whatever you're using now of course.
Miranda's interface should also be much less cluttered than ICQ's for example, and it has no banners and extra addon features built into the interface that confuse the user. Can't speak for other IM's like MSN though since I haven't used those.
... the words of a lisp programmer after a quick glance?:-)
That reminded me of the old MS-DOS days (eep!) where you got so used to the short file name rules, that it took a fraction of a second to see that the file name IBFDATA01.BIN was one character too long, and you became equally quick to shorten names to optimal length while still being as descriptive as possible.:-)
No, because something better came. I think p2p will be around for a long time to come, until something better comes to pirate software/media or unload servers of legal (huh??) software.:-)
Yes, IMHO, the BT client isn't very good since it doesn't even let you serve more than one file in the same instance of the client unless I'm missing something. I know there are third party clients for this though.
I think the event at 9/11 might be among the most negative events that have affected USA and probably far beyond what Osama bin Laden and his company had hoped for. I'm not sure he succeeded in the main goal with the act since the purpose of terrorism is almost always to create respect through fear. However, what they managed to do during the few seconds of the act, is to create enormous effects on the american society that is also reaching to other parts of the world. That terrorist act must have been one of the shortest, yet most affecting, event in recent history. When I think about it, only the nuclear bombs (released by USA ironically enough) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to put an effective end to WW2 (in an arguably good way...) comes into mind. These were similar split-second events that changed the way how we think.
I understand that removable media always run a much greater risk of going bad as they're exhibited to all sorts of possibly harmful effects. However, I'd really like to see "CD-like" discs that last at least for around 20 years to give us plenty of time to at least transfer them to more modern media when they arrive. The problem right now is pretty bad since the media degrades much quicker than new technology arrives, with CD's already becoming unreadable when we haven't even fully made the switch to DVD's yet. I'm sure there are other perhaps more reliable removable media available, but they aren't as widely accepted, and I find the problem actually rather silly since reliability on removable media should come as a top priority, with those often being used exactly for storing old data not immediately needed on a hard drive -- as an archival media.
If this test will lead to an insight in making more reliable CD's or DVD's, where those can be somehow certified with a special "Archival Quality" tag, I'm sure they would sell a lot even to a greater price. I'd completely switch to them at least, since I burn CD's to make them last for a longer time than a year or two. Switching to tapes or something like that isn't very useful, since everyone I might bring my CD's to would need a tape drive.:-P
By the way, this link goes to its SourceForge page where you can find a download and other goodies like forums and the bug tracker. I guess it's the temporary home page while guliverki reconstructs the main page at gabest.org.
Yes, this is the best media player I've found for Windows so far. A key feature in my opinion is its built-in SVCD support. Also, the built-in subtitle support isn't too bad either. It has replaced the following media players for me:
- PowerDVD (I don't need any real powerful features to watch SVCD's which I'm sure MPC might still lack) - Windows Media Player - QuickTime - RealPlayer
Christian Ghisler replaced the front page of www.ghisler.com yesterday, but still allowed visitors to get in via a link. I guess the decision on how to support the protest is up to the participant.
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Whoa! Thanks for reminding me, matey! Yaarrr! :-D
I just need to check my inbox to be reminded why I'm paranoid about things like this. :-P
Thanks for the analysis. And to you and the other guy commenting, I thought the purpose of the schema URI's were exactly to provide places where the respective schemas could be retrieved, but I guess I was wrong about that. It was never meant as an attack just because it's an XML document generated by Microsoft software, I just found it... funny. :-)
:-S Sounds illogical. If they were just made to uniquely represent schemas, why on earth make them follow the URL syntax with "http://" and everything?? What's supposed to be transferred with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol again? Something like "schema://blahblah" would look more logical to me.
But that makes me wonder why they're made to look like URL's when they don't actually represent valid ones.
Thanks for the clarification; I thought they needed to point to valid URL's, since they used the format of URL's.
Gah! Just mod me into oblivion; someone else posted the same mess while I was composing the post. :-P
Just to give you an idea of how it might look in the most simple case possible. This is a XML Document saved from Word 2003. Yes, it's not retail yet, but it's the RTM version. :-)
:-)
/2003/auxHint" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C1488 2" w:macrosPresent="no" w:embeddedObjPresent="no" w:ocxPresent="no" xml:space="preserve"><o:DocumentProperties><o:Titl e>Hello World</o:Title><o:Author>Familjen</o:Author><o:Las tAuthor>Familjen</o:LastAuthor><o:Revision>1</o:Re vision><o:TotalTime>1</o:TotalTime><o:Created>2003 -09-18T15:32:00Z</o:Created><o:LastSaved>2003-09-1 8T15:33:00Z</o:LastSaved><o:Pages>1</o:Pages><o:Wo rds>2</o:Words><o:Characters>11</o:Characters><o:C ompany> </o:Company><o:Lines>1</o:Lines><o:Paragraphs>1</o :Paragraphs><o:CharactersWithSpaces>12</o:Characte rsWithSpaces><o:Version>11.5604</o:Version></o:Doc umentProperties><w:fonts><w:defaultFon ts w:ascii="Times New Roman" w:fareast="Times New Roman" w:h-ansi="Times New Roman" w:cs="Times New Roman"/></w:fonts><w:styles><w:versionOfBuiltInSty lenames w:val="4"/><w:latentStyles w:defLockedState="off" w:latentStyleCount="156"/><w:style w:type="paragraph" w:default="on" w:styleId="Normal"><w:name w:val="Normal"/><w:rPr><wx:font wx:val="Times New Roman"/><w:sz w:val="24"/><w:sz-cs w:val="24"/><w:lang w:val="SV" w:fareast="SV" w:bidi="AR-SA"/></w:rPr></w:style><w:styl e w:type="character" w:default="on" w:styleId="DefaultParagraphFont"><w:name w:val="Default Paragraph Font"/><w:semiHidden/></w:style><w:sty le w:type="table" w:default="on" w:styleId="TableNormal"><w:name w:val="Normal Table"/><wx:uiName wx:val="Table Normal"/><w:semiHidden/><w:rPr><wx:fon t wx:val="Times New Roman"/></w:rPr><w:tblPr><w:tblI nd w:w="0" w:type="dxa"/><w:tblCellMar><w:top w:w="0" w:type="dxa"/><w:left w:w="108" w:type="dxa"/><w:bottom w:w="0" w:type="dxa"/><w:right w:w="108" w:type="dxa"/></w:tblCellMar></w:tblPr></w:style>< w:style w:type="list" w:default="on" w:styleId="NoList"><w:name w:val="No List"/><w:semiHidden/></w:style></w:styles><w:docP r><w:view w:val="web"/><w:zoom w:percent="100"/><w:doNotEmbedSystemFonts/><w:atta chedTemplate w:val=""/><w:defaultTabStop w:val="1304"/><w:hyphenationZone w:val="425"/><w:punctuationKerning/><w:characterSp acingControl w:val="DontCompress"/><w:optimizeForBrowser/><w:va lidateAgainstSchema/><w
All settings (fonts, line spacing, etc) are using defaults and it contains the text "Hello World". No line breaks are removed. It spits out this mess.
I find it funny that the schema URL's for the various namespaces don't point to existing URL's.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<?mso-application progid="Word.Document"?>
<w:wordDocument xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/ 2003/wordml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:sl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibra ry/2003/core" xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/c ore" xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word
OK, I thought you wrote that because it was too complex to use. If you do understand it and it's just a wish that they should consider improving the UI, you should mention that in their forum (temporarily down when writing this). Then you make both your voice heard, and also give them a chance to improve the software to work more like you wish it to. Of course, if you'd never consider switching to that IM regardless that, there would be no point.
Hmm.. 130% improvement then...
:-D
A turbo button would be nice today. 2.8 GHz without, but... 6.5 GHz with turbo!
Hmm, but it would take a heck of a long time to fill up that pipeline so it was used to 100%, and it seems hard to make optimal use of it. Imagine a simple failed branch prediction. Eeeeempty pipeline and fiiiill it up again. :-S
It places high demands on the rest of the architecture to make an optimal use of such a super long pipeline.
But maybe it's worth it then, even when considering the problems with it.
I'm sure Miranda is great for IM power users who have an account with every major service and manipulate their "away" or "busy" status separately for each service
Actually, Miranda is great for me who originally just used it for ICQ. Nothing else. Now I also use it to communicate with some MSN contacts. I never set my away or busy status separately for each service and have never seen a reason to.
Anyway, all I can say is that you and your sister is missing a good utility. It takes approximately 1 minute to figure out what the question "import old database" means (it means "bring in my contacts"). But it's your choice to stay with whatever you're using now of course.
Miranda's interface should also be much less cluttered than ICQ's for example, and it has no banners and extra addon features built into the interface that confuse the user. Can't speak for other IM's like MSN though since I haven't used those.
... the words of a lisp programmer after a quick glance? :-)
:-)
That reminded me of the old MS-DOS days (eep!) where you got so used to the short file name rules, that it took a fraction of a second to see that the file name IBFDATA01.BIN was one character too long, and you became equally quick to shorten names to optimal length while still being as descriptive as possible.
There's a D?
D Programming Language Reference
No, because something better came. I think p2p will be around for a long time to come, until something better comes to pirate software/media or unload servers of legal (huh??) software. :-)
Yes, IMHO, the BT client isn't very good since it doesn't even let you serve more than one file in the same instance of the client unless I'm missing something. I know there are third party clients for this though.
Yes, this is unfortunately true if only one guy in the world is serving the file you're looking for with BT at the moment.
Seems so. Read up here to check. :-)
I think the event at 9/11 might be among the most negative events that have affected USA and probably far beyond what Osama bin Laden and his company had hoped for. I'm not sure he succeeded in the main goal with the act since the purpose of terrorism is almost always to create respect through fear. However, what they managed to do during the few seconds of the act, is to create enormous effects on the american society that is also reaching to other parts of the world. That terrorist act must have been one of the shortest, yet most affecting, event in recent history. When I think about it, only the nuclear bombs (released by USA ironically enough) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to put an effective end to WW2 (in an arguably good way...) comes into mind. These were similar split-second events that changed the way how we think.
Nothing new should need to be set up since there's already a TLD for this: .name
.name info could be better protected for privacy.
:-)
But your idea sounds good to me, where
That would at least give that stupid underused TLD a purpose.
I understand that removable media always run a much greater risk of going bad as they're exhibited to all sorts of possibly harmful effects. However, I'd really like to see "CD-like" discs that last at least for around 20 years to give us plenty of time to at least transfer them to more modern media when they arrive. The problem right now is pretty bad since the media degrades much quicker than new technology arrives, with CD's already becoming unreadable when we haven't even fully made the switch to DVD's yet. I'm sure there are other perhaps more reliable removable media available, but they aren't as widely accepted, and I find the problem actually rather silly since reliability on removable media should come as a top priority, with those often being used exactly for storing old data not immediately needed on a hard drive -- as an archival media.
:-P
If this test will lead to an insight in making more reliable CD's or DVD's, where those can be somehow certified with a special "Archival Quality" tag, I'm sure they would sell a lot even to a greater price. I'd completely switch to them at least, since I burn CD's to make them last for a longer time than a year or two. Switching to tapes or something like that isn't very useful, since everyone I might bring my CD's to would need a tape drive.
By the way, this link goes to its SourceForge page where you can find a download and other goodies like forums and the bug tracker. I guess it's the temporary home page while guliverki reconstructs the main page at gabest.org.
Yes, this is the best media player I've found for Windows so far. A key feature in my opinion is its built-in SVCD support. Also, the built-in subtitle support isn't too bad either. It has replaced the following media players for me:
- PowerDVD (I don't need any real powerful features to watch SVCD's which I'm sure MPC might still lack)
- Windows Media Player
- QuickTime
- RealPlayer
All in a sub-Megabyte package.
- Haddock 0011 Pea Gallows
- Beer Cube
lol
The titles are even more weird than the music. I wonder what they're based on. OK, now I need to listen to "Insurance Century". See ya!
1. Horizontal scrolling required
:-P
Just wait for Microsoft to introduce their horizontal scroll wheel and make it ok to design websites on the width as well.
Christian Ghisler replaced the front page of www.ghisler.com yesterday, but still allowed visitors to get in via a link. I guess the decision on how to support the protest is up to the participant.
The Total Commander site has been reopened again and was closed yesterday. Wrote about it in my journal.