ODT format is basically a set of XML files packed into a ZIP archive. One of them is "the biggie" (content.xml) and others are for supporting it. Images etc are saved/packed in subdirs. Now - to open it, OOo apps should unpack the whole package and parse XML keeping all its contents in memory (presumably, but highly likely). Maybe not a big deal if all you handle is two page memo but keep in mind that OOo's spreadsheet and database(!) programs work the same way. And for something like 20-30 page specs sheet on a sub-1GHz machine OOo works noticeably faster when handling DOC format documents than handling its "native" ODT documents. Saving/autosaving can be a pain too (as you should dump all you document to XML and pack it. Unlike MSOffice where storage formats work as database).
All in all - OOo's file formats are a nice and simple solution for exchanging reasonably sized documents (if you don't mind usual XML-namespace-hell structure) but for editing/working on larger documents/spreadsheets you may find yourself using MSOffice document formats (from within OOo). Pity they don't provide their own "scratch-pad/database-in-a-file" formats.
New photo format from MS! Yay! I'm sure digicam makers will _gladly_ embrace it after Microsoft fucked them over with FAT patent royalties enforcement.
This new set of MS software (Vista, New Office) that they've been working hard on for the last 5 years looks really impressive! It can even beat.. I dunno.. Intel Itanium CPU in adoption speed and popularity! Good luck to them!
(Long sound of ship-horn. Bubbles)/me goes to Apple store to salivate a bit more over higher-end MacBooks
One note though - during the time I used AVG it detected exactly _zero_ email viruses of 5 or 6 I got - even when I specifically asked it to scan attachment EXEs. Ok - quite probably other AVs are no better since it is the nature of such viruses to propagate within hours of being released and AV updates take days. Now I just run without any AV. Yes, corporate environment may differ but I just wanted to point it out.
Well, it seems that I gonna piss against the wind...:( I like glossy screens. Ok - I did not work on glossy-LCD-screen for any serious time, but they look _cool_, way better than matte screens. Go to your local computer shop (where they have several notebooks turned on) and see for yourself. Matte screens may be ok by themselves but next to glossy screen.... check what all the people are looking at. Dunno about GUI, but photos, videos etc kick ass on glossy screens. Much better colors. As for glare - I work in dimly lit rooms anyway. What glare?
I'm not much of a gamer but - well - my current Radeon 8500 looses it on most modern games (though I'm still happy with it in IL2 and GPL, that I mostly play). So I thought for some about a new video card (and a bloody new MB apparently since they decided to kill AGP, bastards). Nothing over $100-150 - just something with support for modern features and reasonable performance. Nice article for me....
But hey!! Check out power consumption figures! They state 85 watts in idle and 145.6 watts under load for their "winner" card (Radeon X1300). W.T.F.?! That's like three times more than my 90nm AMD64 CPU, right? You know what - go to hell. Call me back when you have something reasonable with passive cooling.
I predict that we will have fusion power not before oil reserves are exhausted - too much money/politics/everything involved. Can't be allowed. If we have fusion power production tomorrow - what would all those arabs do? Huh?
No it wouldn't. I'm sure I have seen more japanese movies than indian movies, read more books by japanese authors than by indian authors, and I have seen exactly zero animations from India. Etc. I'm sure I'm in absolute majority.
Seriously - what kind of pop-culture and to what countries India sells?
Good point. Why not market it as "Wii" in CJK and as "Revolution" in 3rd world countries (i.e. US. Kidding...)
I understand that in Japan "Revolution" (Rebouryushin?) may be a tad of a jawbreaker but why not two names?
OTOH -/. had laughs about almost any other new trademark (Celeron, Duron, Athlon, GeForce etc etc). But it all settles and I don't think any of us find those names funny anymore (right?). Maybe after all (shock!) marketing guys are better at marketing than us, huh?
Swampfront house you mean? Global warming does not mean you'll have italian climate in norway - you will have deserts where it was warm before and stinking swamps where it was not.
Sweat? Try to take a 100%/100% distance in GPL (Grand Prix Legends) or even any other sufficiently realistic racing sim. My... everything! - ankles, arms, neck - hurts like hell after that. Not to mention psychical load.
Depends on anime. And again - if you want to learn Japanese to watch anime (and "consume" other media-production) and - as you claim - it all "sounds nothing like a normal conversation", then what's the point to learn "normal conversation" style?
What if your primary reason to learn it _is_ games and anime?
Also - I find it is quite probably a good idea to pump tons of conversations (by native speakers of course) through your brain _before_ you start learning any foreign language. Reasoning - you will have quite certain idea how that language _should_ sound and in case of Japanese things like tonal stress will come very naturally. Otherwise you will obtain your own very wrong ideas about rhythms and sounds (probably through transliterating the words to your native tongue). Then you will need to relearn everything not even from zero level but from negative or otherwise your language "knowledge" will be wasted. And relearning is hard. I speak from my experience with English (not my native language). So in short - I think "parroting" the sound of Japanese is a good idea (even from anime as it is the most available source of Japanese).
I hope this goes too. Now one can safely "sneak" Macs into workplace. And when people see that MacOSX is equally suitable for developing/running business software, i.e. when "Macs are for graphic designers" meme starts dying... That could be valuable. Especially since I guess MacOSX will run circles around Vista on same hardware regarding speed, capability and general well-builtness.
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ODT format is basically a set of XML files packed into a ZIP archive. One of them is "the biggie" (content.xml) and others are for supporting it. Images etc are saved/packed in subdirs. Now - to open it, OOo apps should unpack the whole package and parse XML keeping all its contents in memory (presumably, but highly likely). Maybe not a big deal if all you handle is two page memo but keep in mind that OOo's spreadsheet and database(!) programs work the same way. And for something like 20-30 page specs sheet on a sub-1GHz machine OOo works noticeably faster when handling DOC format documents than handling its "native" ODT documents. Saving/autosaving can be a pain too (as you should dump all you document to XML and pack it. Unlike MSOffice where storage formats work as database).
All in all - OOo's file formats are a nice and simple solution for exchanging reasonably sized documents (if you don't mind usual XML-namespace-hell structure) but for editing/working on larger documents/spreadsheets you may find yourself using MSOffice document formats (from within OOo). Pity they don't provide their own "scratch-pad/database-in-a-file" formats.
So - for once, Microsoft is kinda right here.
Sure I can:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp
New photo format from MS! Yay! I'm sure digicam makers will _gladly_ embrace it after Microsoft fucked them over with FAT patent royalties enforcement.
This new set of MS software (Vista, New Office) that they've been working hard on for the last 5 years looks really impressive! It can even beat.. I dunno.. Intel Itanium CPU in adoption speed and popularity! Good luck to them!
/me goes to Apple store to salivate a bit more over higher-end MacBooks
(Long sound of ship-horn. Bubbles)
One note though - during the time I used AVG it detected exactly _zero_ email viruses of 5 or 6 I got - even when I specifically asked it to scan attachment EXEs. Ok - quite probably other AVs are no better since it is the nature of such viruses to propagate within hours of being released and AV updates take days. Now I just run without any AV. Yes, corporate environment may differ but I just wanted to point it out.
Well, it seems that I gonna piss against the wind... :(
I like glossy screens. Ok - I did not work on glossy-LCD-screen for any serious time, but they look _cool_, way better than matte screens. Go to your local computer shop (where they have several notebooks turned on) and see for yourself. Matte screens may be ok by themselves but next to glossy screen.... check what all the people are looking at. Dunno about GUI, but photos, videos etc kick ass on glossy screens. Much better colors. As for glare - I work in dimly lit rooms anyway. What glare?
I'm not much of a gamer but - well - my current Radeon 8500 looses it on most modern games (though I'm still happy with it in IL2 and GPL, that I mostly play). So I thought for some about a new video card (and a bloody new MB apparently since they decided to kill AGP, bastards). Nothing over $100-150 - just something with support for modern features and reasonable performance. Nice article for me....
But hey!! Check out power consumption figures! They state 85 watts in idle and 145.6 watts under load for their "winner" card (Radeon X1300). W.T.F.?! That's like three times more than my 90nm AMD64 CPU, right? You know what - go to hell. Call me back when you have something reasonable with passive cooling.
I predict that we will have fusion power not before oil reserves are exhausted - too much money/politics/everything involved. Can't be allowed. If we have fusion power production tomorrow - what would all those arabs do? Huh?
10 PRINT "DUDE" ' Corrected
20 PRINT "SWEET"
30 GOTO 10
RUN
I also note that at least 1/2 of the four Americans...
I bow to your math skills!
No it wouldn't. I'm sure I have seen more japanese movies than indian movies, read more books by japanese authors than by indian authors, and I have seen exactly zero animations from India. Etc. I'm sure I'm in absolute majority.
Seriously - what kind of pop-culture and to what countries India sells?
But Japan is #2 country in economy and dare I say, cultural export, in the world.
Given that US pop-culture is PC-riddled mix of psychological complexes that puts Japan as the most interesting culture-exporting country in the world.
So dye beech! :)
Al Gore? Internet? I believe that he created not millions, not billions, but trillions (hand)jobs!
Good point. Why not market it as "Wii" in CJK and as "Revolution" in 3rd world countries (i.e. US. Kidding...)
/. had laughs about almost any other new trademark (Celeron, Duron, Athlon, GeForce etc etc). But it all settles and I don't think any of us find those names funny anymore (right?). Maybe after all (shock!) marketing guys are better at marketing than us, huh?
I understand that in Japan "Revolution" (Rebouryushin?) may be a tad of a jawbreaker but why not two names?
OTOH -
Just use the word "console". If asked "which console?" say "Nintendo. Nintendo Revolution".
Only on /. ....
GCC for "average home user"?!?! Man... do you sniff it or do you smoke it?
Yikes! Don't sneak up on me like that!
Swampfront house you mean? Global warming does not mean you'll have italian climate in norway - you will have deserts where it was warm before and stinking swamps where it was not.
Sweat? Try to take a 100%/100% distance in GPL (Grand Prix Legends) or even any other sufficiently realistic racing sim. My... everything! - ankles, arms, neck - hurts like hell after that. Not to mention psychical load.
Oh, come on! There's a lot of experience with exactly this mode of operation in the target market.
Do you want them working as advertised?
Depends on anime. And again - if you want to learn Japanese to watch anime (and "consume" other media-production) and - as you claim - it all "sounds nothing like a normal conversation", then what's the point to learn "normal conversation" style?
Do not try to learn anything from games or anime.
What if your primary reason to learn it _is_ games and anime?
Also - I find it is quite probably a good idea to pump tons of conversations (by native speakers of course) through your brain _before_ you start learning any foreign language. Reasoning - you will have quite certain idea how that language _should_ sound and in case of Japanese things like tonal stress will come very naturally. Otherwise you will obtain your own very wrong ideas about rhythms and sounds (probably through transliterating the words to your native tongue). Then you will need to relearn everything not even from zero level but from negative or otherwise your language "knowledge" will be wasted. And relearning is hard. I speak from my experience with English (not my native language). So in short - I think "parroting" the sound of Japanese is a good idea (even from anime as it is the most available source of Japanese).
Cooorpoooraaaateee peeeneeetraaatiooon!
I hope this goes too. Now one can safely "sneak" Macs into workplace. And when people see that MacOSX is equally suitable for developing/running business software, i.e. when "Macs are for graphic designers" meme starts dying... That could be valuable. Especially since I guess MacOSX will run circles around Vista on same hardware regarding speed, capability and general well-builtness.