I think you're imagining things. I never mentioned CSI. I did mention "Law & Order: SVU," a show which does not promote "hatred of homosexuality." Since you can't even distinguish between the two shows, I'm going to assume that you have never seen "SVU" (or "Will & Grace," which treats homosexuals as protagonists) and that I've just been trolled. Nice one.
I heard that on German TV, they used hidden cameras to film whatever it was that crawled into your panties and twisted them into a bind.
"American TV" includes over-the-air networks, on which you can show movies of substantial artistic merit, uncut, with swear words and everything (another example: "Schindler's List" aired uncut on NBC in 1997, including a scene with a naked boob!!); cable networks, on which you can show anything you want (like South Park's "we can say 'shit'" episode); and premium cable networks, which differ from regular cable networks only in their higher monthly fee and lack of advertisements.
I've visited other countries, but I didn't spend my time abroad ogling boobies on television.
Fox inserts "Viewer discretion is advised" in front of every show in their prime-time line-up, and they air plenty of controversial stuff. "Will & Grace" on NBC has been running for years and includes many gay characters. "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" deals with all sorts of sexual deviants.
You can't show boobs or use profanity on network TV, but you can still discuss certain subjects in prime time and attract millions of viewers.
Premium networks like HBO and Cinemax can show whatever they like and happily show R-rated or more explicit programs. Christians are free to not watch them.
"These XML files are in plain text; the only thing binary about them is binary attachments (such as PNG files) that are referenced in the document itself."
This statement is vague. Before I see a "BZZT WRONG" reply, I'll rephrase it.
"These XML files are plain text; the only thing binary about the contents of.docx files are binary attachments (such as PNG files) that are stored separately from the document body and referenced in the document body as external files."
Microsoft Office Word "12" will write.docx files, which are ZIP-compressed XML files. These XML files are in plain text; the only thing binary about them is binary attachments (such as PNG files) that are referenced in the document itself.
Please read this blog, by a real Microsoft software engineer who actually accepts and responds to questions from concerned citizens like yourself..docx files are not blobs wrapped in XML tags; they are actual bundles of human-readable files just like OpenOffice.org files.
And if you still want to play lawyer, here are some posts that you can visit and leave comments on or even TrackBack to your own blog. You can USENET-style-reply to this comment, but if you want your questions answered then take them to a Microsoft software engineer.
One of those people was the submitter of this article, who handed a submission with a title of "Office + OpenDoc, Never Say Never" to an editor who approved it as-is. The editor corrected the headline at some point after I posted my original comment (and a few others did the same).
The original title of this article was "Office + OpenDoc, Never Say Never." The editor corrected the headline, so all the posts saying "Hey, I remember OpenDoc as something different" are now complaining about nothing.
Isn't "OpenDoc" a much older standard than OpenDocument that never quite caught on? I remember being so jazzed as an OS/2 user that OS/2 Warp 4 would support OpenDoc, then... well, we all know what happened to OS/2 after that.
In any case, blah blah open standards good blah blah down with proprietary crap.
CNBC since its inception has put a stock ticker on the bottom of its screen to mimic the stock tickers that have been in every brokerage since before the invention of television.
I think Bloomberg, which is largely a financial news channel, started the trend of "shrink the video picture to a tiny corner of the screen."
Except for weather alerts, I never saw a news channel run a persistent ticker before September 11, 2001. The ticker was a good idea on 9/11 when everyone was struggling to know what was going on, and it still makes a good idea when you need to have information like school closings, weather warnings, 911 interruptions, etc., on the screen all the time. I agree with you that excessive ticker usage just leads to a polluted look.
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No. It means they've been married 16.
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IMDb trivia page for Needham (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on 04:12 PM October 17th, 2005 (#13811674) Spouse Karen Needham (22 July 1989 - present) 2 children Does that mean she is only 16?
I have to agree: any message with the "Highest priority" flag (X-Priority: 1) should be treated like spam. I consider it as the equivalent of putting a message in ALL CAPS BECAUSE ALL CAPS MEANS IMPORTANT. It's also a very common spam tactic, right up there with post-dating the message to make it appear at the very top of your sorted-by-date-descending message list.
Outlook supports a "Low priority" flag as well as the oft-abused "High priority" flag. I have never seen a message from one person to another explicitly marked as "low priority."
Under Tools > Options > Advanced > General Settings, there's a checkbox and text box that might serve to work around this. Check "Mark message read after displaying for (5) seconds," then change the default (5) to 90000. Now you'll have to leave a message highlighted for more than a day before it gets automatically marked as "read."
I suspect there's some obscure.js file you can modify to change the behavior to match Outlook's, but that's my first reaction based on my knowledge of Thunderbird's dialog boxes.
In Thunderbird, turn on the "read" column, which displays a green dot for messages that are unread and a tiny black dot for messages that are read. Click the dot to toggle the unread/read state.
As for flagging messages for follow-up, I prefer to use the "flagged" property of a message which every IMAP client seems to honor. Mail.app, Thunderbird, etc., let me set up my own virtual folder which can show me all the messages I've flagged (ever, today, in the last week). Opera M2 and Gmail let you set up multiple types of flags, but I get along fine with just one.
Because the iPod has no wireless. Don't you remember that as one of the reasons why they were "lame" from day one? $30 for a remote matches Apple's usual accessory charge for an iPod gizmo anyway.
Mac zealots use AAC because it's the default format for importing music into iTunes. It is to the Mac community what WMA is to the Windows zealot community.
Everyone who has tried to "sue McDonald's for making them fat" did so just for the "free" publicity. They've all been laughed out of court. You'd have better luck suing Apple for bundling iTunes with their iPod.
No, they put the iPod nano under a chair and sat on the chair once. Woo hoo. The nano gets scratched up when you do the following test that Ars Technica didn't ever think to try:
10 REM BASED ON APPROXIMATE ONE-MONTH LIGHT USAGE 20 FOR I FROM 1 TO 100 30 TAKE IPOD NANO OUT OF TROUSERS POCKET 40 PUT IPOD NANO INTO TROUSERS POCKET 50 NEXT I
Gmail is still beta. It's not fair to compare it against anything until it gets released for real. What kind of moron trusts their personal e-mail to a beta application?
Click the name of a podcast on Yahoo! Podcasts. There is a link called "User Reviews" where people can leave blurbs about (among other things) the audio quality, new episode frequency, etc. It's not entirely what you wanted, but it's something.
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I think you're imagining things. I never mentioned CSI. I did mention "Law & Order: SVU," a show which does not promote "hatred of homosexuality." Since you can't even distinguish between the two shows, I'm going to assume that you have never seen "SVU" (or "Will & Grace," which treats homosexuals as protagonists) and that I've just been trolled. Nice one.
I heard that on German TV, they used hidden cameras to film whatever it was that crawled into your panties and twisted them into a bind.
"American TV" includes over-the-air networks, on which you can show movies of substantial artistic merit, uncut, with swear words and everything (another example: "Schindler's List" aired uncut on NBC in 1997, including a scene with a naked boob!!); cable networks, on which you can show anything you want (like South Park's "we can say 'shit'" episode); and premium cable networks, which differ from regular cable networks only in their higher monthly fee and lack of advertisements.
I've visited other countries, but I didn't spend my time abroad ogling boobies on television.
Fox inserts "Viewer discretion is advised" in front of every show in their prime-time line-up, and they air plenty of controversial stuff. "Will & Grace" on NBC has been running for years and includes many gay characters. "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" deals with all sorts of sexual deviants.
You can't show boobs or use profanity on network TV, but you can still discuss certain subjects in prime time and attract millions of viewers.
Premium networks like HBO and Cinemax can show whatever they like and happily show R-rated or more explicit programs. Christians are free to not watch them.
"These XML files are in plain text; the only thing binary about them is binary attachments (such as PNG files) that are referenced in the document itself."
.docx files are binary attachments (such as PNG files) that are stored separately from the document body and referenced in the document body as external files."
This statement is vague. Before I see a "BZZT WRONG" reply, I'll rephrase it.
"These XML files are plain text; the only thing binary about the contents of
No.
.docx files, which are ZIP-compressed XML files. These XML files are in plain text; the only thing binary about them is binary attachments (such as PNG files) that are referenced in the document itself.
.docx files are not blobs wrapped in XML tags; they are actual bundles of human-readable files just like OpenOffice.org files.
Microsoft Office Word "12" will write
Please read this blog, by a real Microsoft software engineer who actually accepts and responds to questions from concerned citizens like yourself.
And if you still want to play lawyer, here are some posts that you can visit and leave comments on or even TrackBack to your own blog. You can USENET-style-reply to this comment, but if you want your questions answered then take them to a Microsoft software engineer.
The myth of the Binary Key, a myth which you still believe as fact
Comments from some dude about OpenDocument
Some background on the reasons why Microsoft chose an XML format, and information on how their choices predate and differ from OpenDocument
License wankery
License wankery, part 2
Follow-up on comments regarding license wankery
One of those people was the submitter of this article, who handed a submission with a title of "Office + OpenDoc, Never Say Never" to an editor who approved it as-is. The editor corrected the headline at some point after I posted my original comment (and a few others did the same).
The original title of this article was "Office + OpenDoc, Never Say Never." The editor corrected the headline, so all the posts saying "Hey, I remember OpenDoc as something different" are now complaining about nothing.
Office 12 will not write .doc by default, but rather an XML-based format called .docx. More information is available at the Microsoft Office XML Formats blog.
Isn't "OpenDoc" a much older standard than OpenDocument that never quite caught on? I remember being so jazzed as an OS/2 user that OS/2 Warp 4 would support OpenDoc, then... well, we all know what happened to OS/2 after that.
In any case, blah blah open standards good blah blah down with proprietary crap.
CNBC since its inception has put a stock ticker on the bottom of its screen to mimic the stock tickers that have been in every brokerage since before the invention of television.
I think Bloomberg, which is largely a financial news channel, started the trend of "shrink the video picture to a tiny corner of the screen."
Except for weather alerts, I never saw a news channel run a persistent ticker before September 11, 2001. The ticker was a good idea on 9/11 when everyone was struggling to know what was going on, and it still makes a good idea when you need to have information like school closings, weather warnings, 911 interruptions, etc., on the screen all the time. I agree with you that excessive ticker usage just leads to a polluted look.
No. It means they've been married 16.
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IMDb trivia page for Needham
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by Anonymous Coward on 04:12 PM October 17th, 2005 (#13811674)
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Karen Needham (22 July 1989 - present) 2 children
Does that mean she is only 16?
I have to agree: any message with the "Highest priority" flag (X-Priority: 1) should be treated like spam. I consider it as the equivalent of putting a message in ALL CAPS BECAUSE ALL CAPS MEANS IMPORTANT. It's also a very common spam tactic, right up there with post-dating the message to make it appear at the very top of your sorted-by-date-descending message list.
Outlook supports a "Low priority" flag as well as the oft-abused "High priority" flag. I have never seen a message from one person to another explicitly marked as "low priority."
Under Tools > Options > Advanced > General Settings, there's a checkbox and text box that might serve to work around this. Check "Mark message read after displaying for (5) seconds," then change the default (5) to 90000. Now you'll have to leave a message highlighted for more than a day before it gets automatically marked as "read."
.js file you can modify to change the behavior to match Outlook's, but that's my first reaction based on my knowledge of Thunderbird's dialog boxes.
I suspect there's some obscure
In Thunderbird, turn on the "read" column, which displays a green dot for messages that are unread and a tiny black dot for messages that are read. Click the dot to toggle the unread/read state.
As for flagging messages for follow-up, I prefer to use the "flagged" property of a message which every IMAP client seems to honor. Mail.app, Thunderbird, etc., let me set up my own virtual folder which can show me all the messages I've flagged (ever, today, in the last week). Opera M2 and Gmail let you set up multiple types of flags, but I get along fine with just one.
Just because you don't want to do something doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
Open Source: Where the customer is always stupid.
Because the iPod has no wireless. Don't you remember that as one of the reasons why they were "lame" from day one? $30 for a remote matches Apple's usual accessory charge for an iPod gizmo anyway.
Mac zealots use AAC because it's the default format for importing music into iTunes. It is to the Mac community what WMA is to the Windows zealot community.
All iPods with a Dock connector work with the FrontRow remote. All you need is their new "Universal Dock" with a remote receiver.
Everyone who has tried to "sue McDonald's for making them fat" did so just for the "free" publicity. They've all been laughed out of court. You'd have better luck suing Apple for bundling iTunes with their iPod.
No, they put the iPod nano under a chair and sat on the chair once. Woo hoo. The nano gets scratched up when you do the following test that Ars Technica didn't ever think to try:
10 REM BASED ON APPROXIMATE ONE-MONTH LIGHT USAGE
20 FOR I FROM 1 TO 100
30 TAKE IPOD NANO OUT OF TROUSERS POCKET
40 PUT IPOD NANO INTO TROUSERS POCKET
50 NEXT I
I'd rather use an MP3 player that can survive being placed in a pocket than one that looks like it was run over by a car repeatedly.
Gmail is still beta. It's not fair to compare it against anything until it gets released for real. What kind of moron trusts their personal e-mail to a beta application?
Click the name of a podcast on Yahoo! Podcasts. There is a link called "User Reviews" where people can leave blurbs about (among other things) the audio quality, new episode frequency, etc. It's not entirely what you wanted, but it's something.