More specifically, their XML Binary Characterization page.
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group is tasked with gathering information about uses cases where the overhead of generating, parsing, transmitting, storing, or accessing XML-based data may be deemed too great for a particular application, characterizing the properties that XML provides as well as those that are required by the use cases, and establishing objective, shared measurements to help judge whether XML 1.x and alternate (binary) encodings provide the required properties.
Read any good EULAs lately? They now seem to contain a clause which prohibits posting reviews, opinions or other information of the software without the consent of the author/publisher of said software
Although he was not refering to "Windows" in the same context, I think Douglas Adams summed it up best with this line:
"The thing he realized about the windows was this: because they had been converted into openable windows after they had first been designed to be impregnable, they were, in fact, much less secure than if they had been designed as openable windows in the first place."
Not only would this be a problem for individual companies, but it could shift the preception in a lot of international reciprocal agreements in respect to copyrighhts.
I'd bet half a billion doughnuts that requirements weren't properly gathered or documented. Testing and usability were probably left until the latter part of the project as well.
Plus, it wouldn't have been 508 compliant. Section 508 is still a US Gov't mandate, isn't it?
Because it's not specificly about Rational. It's about Eclipse. Eclipse was Open Sourced in 2001 by IBM and IBM-Rational is to be standardized on Eclipse since last year. See how it all ties in?
While I have to agree with your assessment of a lot of Rational's products, I think the OP was referring to Eclipse rather than Rational. Eclipse has been open sourced since 2001. Many of the plug-ins are GPL/CPL. Many/.'ers may not be developers but most seem to have a OSS bent, or at least they used to.
The ring goes on the finger, not through the nose. The marriage certificate is not a deed to the soul. I ask how you are and you say "fine", I know you're lying but I'm going to run with that.
I told my wife all these things before we got married. She is still cool with that. Mind you, her "pet name" for me is still "asshole". 80% of the time, I'm pretty sure she is joking.
You'll like this link on FOLED. Fleible Organic Light Emitting Device Nevermind the stuff about "an intellectual property portfolio that contains over 100 issued U.S. patents, over 50 U.S. patents pending and numerous international patents issued and pending."
I'm not sure that the prediction of market ready OLEDs by '08 is overly optomistic. It was only in '00/01 that there was an announcemet that there would be a 2.5 inch prototype to be available "soon". It was just last year we were discussing on/. the production of OLED units by an "inkjet" style process.
This seems to follow the development track of this technology.
I have also seen another type of planning that is lacking, the planning for success. What if your small in-house project become wildly successful? Yes, it can happen. How do you follow up? Are you ready to meet the challenge?
Sometimes the only way to fail lays in the failure in planning for success.
There is an article on Stickyminds this week about applying different requirements managemewnt techniques to different types of projects. The title is "Why Software Quality Assurance Practices Become Evil!". It is also quite relevent to this topic.
Are your organization's software quality assurance practices (SQA) working well? Would some developers even say they cause discomfort or are destructive? If so, maybe you are focusing too much on the processes and not enough on the underlying principles.
Bob goes into the doctor's office and has some tests run. The doctor comes back and says "Bob, I'm not going to beat around the bush. You have AIDS."
Bob is devastated. "Doc, what can I do?"
"Eat 1 sausage, 1 head of cabbage, 20 unpeeled carrots drenched in hot sauce, 10 Jalapeno peppers, 40 walnuts and 40 peanuts, 1/2 box of Raisin Bran, and top it off with a gallon of prune juice."
Bob asks, "Will that cure me, Doc?"
Doc says, "No, but it should leave you with a better understanding of what your ass is for."
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Then why, when it runs in Windows(TM), do we call it "Normal"?
More specifically, their XML Binary Characterization page.
Read any good EULAs lately?
They now seem to contain a clause which prohibits posting reviews, opinions or other information of the software without the consent of the author/publisher of said software
That's two references to "drawn and quartered". Doesn't anyone believe in a good old-fashioned public stoning anymore?
I'm sorry but " some decent security and the 'net do not equate. Everything is suspect and should be considered the ultimate "caveat emptor"
Perhaps it was a result of Google Hacking?
They may not want to be seen as the exploration tool of choice.
In English it's £200.
In American it's $376.62 USD
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No, I don't work there. I work in Adaptive Computer Technology support. We've had some positive results with these.
Not only would this be a problem for individual companies, but it could shift the preception in a lot of international reciprocal agreements in respect to copyrighhts.
I'd bet half a billion doughnuts that requirements weren't properly gathered or documented.
Testing and usability were probably left until the latter part of the project as well.
Plus, it wouldn't have been 508 compliant.
Section 508 is still a US Gov't mandate, isn't it?
Oh, bugger.
I knew that last line would draw something O/T.
Guess one shouldn't try for a little levity some days.
Because it's not specificly about Rational.
It's about Eclipse.
Eclipse was Open Sourced in 2001 by IBM and IBM-Rational is to be standardized on Eclipse since last year.
See how it all ties in?
IBM are still the "good guys", aren't they?
While I have to agree with your assessment of a lot of Rational's products, I think the OP was referring to Eclipse rather than Rational. /.'ers may not be developers but most seem to have a OSS bent, or at least they used to.
Eclipse has been open sourced since 2001. Many of the plug-ins are GPL/CPL.
Many
There is a plug-in for C/C++.
Good reference.
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The ring goes on the finger, not through the nose.
The marriage certificate is not a deed to the soul.
I ask how you are and you say "fine", I know you're lying but I'm going to run with that.
I told my wife all these things before we got married. She is still cool with that.
Mind you, her "pet name" for me is still "asshole".
80% of the time, I'm pretty sure she is joking.
Did you try the Furby Autopsy?
You'll like this link on FOLED.
Fleible Organic Light Emitting Device
Nevermind the stuff about "an intellectual property portfolio that contains over 100 issued U.S. patents, over 50 U.S. patents pending and numerous international patents issued and pending."
I'm not sure that the prediction of market ready OLEDs by '08 is overly optomistic. /. the production of OLED units by an "inkjet" style process.
It was only in '00/01 that there was an announcemet that there would be a 2.5 inch prototype to be available "soon".
It was just last year we were discussing on
This seems to follow the development track of this technology.
I have also seen another type of planning that is lacking, the planning for success.
What if your small in-house project become wildly successful? Yes, it can happen.
How do you follow up?
Are you ready to meet the challenge?
Sometimes the only way to fail lays in the failure in planning for success.
I was thinking it was more like Schrodinger's cat. In this case, the cyanide capsule being the indication that the project could fail.
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Bob goes into the doctor's office and has some tests run. The doctor comes back and says "Bob, I'm not going to beat around the bush. You have AIDS."
Bob is devastated. "Doc, what can I do?"
"Eat 1 sausage, 1 head of cabbage, 20 unpeeled carrots drenched in hot sauce, 10 Jalapeno peppers, 40 walnuts and 40 peanuts, 1/2 box of Raisin Bran, and top it off with a gallon of prune juice."
Bob asks, "Will that cure me, Doc?"
Doc says, "No, but it should leave you with a better understanding of what your ass is for."