Microsoft has said that the ISO process was what prevented OOXML from receiving support in the same time frame.
Seems to me that they knew full well that ODF is a working standard that they could easily support (since they're going to support it). If they truly thought OOXML was so great, they could have spent the development time on OOXML instead, but they realize that it's not implementable.
Microsoft voluntarily chose to waste the time in the ISO process, to the detriment of the product, the shareholders, the customers, and the standards process.
For the record, I don't see how the ISO process slowed product development. It's not like the coders are the same people who are stuffing the ISO voting committees, so they do have time to code. And Companies routinely implement pre-final standards, with an update to implement the final version.
But I wouldn't mind if #5 is a full blown Metal Gear Raiden.
For all the hate about Raiden, I thought that it was only due to the shock of the size of his role, and hate about his appearance. His character wasn't fully fleshed out, so I don't know if I hate him for his youthfully naive attitude to the missions. I found the playability and greater athleticism made him a good character to play, compared to the slow as molasses Snake. It was annoying to fight Liquid as he jumps all over the room, while Snake barely trots along.
Snake's greatest attribute is his gruff character, and bewildered comments ("..."). If the same level of character development was spent on Raiden, maybe he wouldn't be such a universally hated character in the Metal Gear world.
Although it is being presented as Microsoft doing some good contributed to the project, I wonder if we could compare Gates Foundation money will flow to OLPC after the XP version is for sale. That could be the kind of non-profit pressure that would make the change of heart towards adoption of Microsoft software seem more understandable.
Comparing the money involved, OLPC = $200, OLPC + XP = $207, and Windows XP Home = $199. Hard to really explain why there is such a desire for Microsoft to cut the costs so deep just to get involved in this project. I'm sure it's not corporate altruism.
Is there really such a move towards a common UI as long as the major distributions have distribution-specific customization? Of course, the distributions have every right to do them, and many of them are helpful. They also serve as some of the most visible differentiators between the distributions.
But I don't think that a common UI will be achievable when there are significant differences out-of-the-box even among flavors of the same desktop environment.
Just based on personal observation, I notice most young people don't skip ads, but rather start watching another program. Their hyper short-term attention spans drive them to find new content instead of finishing the content they were originally watching. A teen will watch 10 minutes of 5 different shows in an hour, without having to use the skip button on the dvr at all.
Older people, with greater attention spans, want to continue the program they were watching, and thus use the technology to skip the ads in order to watch the entire program.
For all the pros/cons on using a web site editor package vs writing code in a text editor, there's one issue that's been overlooked - how to manage links in a website with a large degree of depth and complexity.
As much as it may work in principle to build highly optimized pages by hand markup, it must be a nightmare to make any changes to something as tightly constructed as a hardwired web site.
no, not single player games, but party games. A couple of Microphones, a ps2, and Karaoke Revolution will go a long ways to getting shy people to let loose.
It seems that there are modern day ports of LOGO and Robot Odyssey, both of which were pretty influential in my early education and gravitated me towards computer science ever since.
Disclaimer, I haven't actually tried the software in the links above.
Companies price mid tier products in a way to protect the price of more expensive products. With X4 out for a while, the temptation is to drop the price on them in order to drive customer interest. By introducing an X3 at a slightly cheaper price, the buying mentality changes.
Customers who look at an X3 and think "oh an X4 is only $5 more" will buy an X4 at the higher price. No need to drop the price.
Buyers who really need to save money and go with the X3, but AMD gets near X4 revenue for them, so they don't have to write off the whole chip as a loss when the yield is off.
Always be suspicious when the midtier product is introduced after the high end product is already out - you usually end up overpaying for either one.
How come the studios don't stop him from making movies? It's not like they're drowning in the money he's raking in with Bloodrayne. They have focus groups that must be universally telling them that fans of the original property don't want to see his movies. And the reviews, well the reviews speak for themselves.
"est" says that it is the absolute and there are no planets younger than it, known or unknown. The modifier of known clarifies this statement, because we do not know if this particular planet is the absolute youngest planet in existence. Only the youngest one known to us.
The only way this is true is if there is a definition for what defines when a planet is formed and at this very second it can be proven there are no others. Obviously this cannot be done. Thus, both Known and Discovered are necessary and one does not imply the other.
Although the eetimes article in the link says the encryption was broken easily, the way they developed the attack does not seem to be easy in any sense of the word. They analyzed the chip using high powered microscopes and slicing off layers to analyze the gates involved in the encryption. If that's considered "easy", then I'd sure like to see what eetimes considers "hard".
ever look at the kind of data stored in an online CRM, like salesforce.com? complete sales records, every email to every client, all the product defect issues. Maybe the SEC and the IRS may decide to look at raw data and not wait for the auditor report to come back.
In my experience, engineering school isn't geared specifically for content. It's designed to teach you some basics (electronics, math, logic, assembly language in my case), and everything done above and beyond that was designed to teach you how to solve problems. I may not know how to build an amplifier anymore, but I do know how to build a circuit, simulate it, how to adjust properties, and develop an answer.
I think the same thing goes with Calculus - Everything you did in math was done to give you the 'aha' moment that occurs when you learn derrivatives. You suffered endlessly computing deltas manually, but then you learned what a derivative is, and all of a sudden your world changed. There are other ways to solve problems. And when you realized that, then your approach to math suddenly changed - it's not about slogging through a procedure to get the answer, but to look at problems and see new ways of solving them.
The importance of college isn't what you learn there. It's whether you learn HOW to learn.
OEM video is for gamers in the first place. OEM video is just fine for what it is - people who use computers at work on office documents, presentations, and web browsing.
No matter what GPU is on the on-board video, it won't be enough for gamers.
They also reference the troubled Real ID program, saying that the debate has centered around forms of ID rather than the central issue of authentication.
I think the issue is neither forms of ID nor authentication. People readily carry similar forms of ID and perform similar usages of authentication all the time in private enterprise.
The real issue is whether you choose want to have any one organization to own all the identification information, and if anyone truly believes it will be confined to be used only for the sole purposes as it was originally prescribed.
Microsoft found out the hard way that the public doesn't like this idea much with passport. Now the more recent technologies such as cardspace, openid, and other such frameworks talk more of how you can distribute identity among different providers or control parts of it on your own without creating the gigantic single provider of identity.
the primary difference is the elevation of privleges. Malware and viruses on Windows have no problem taking over the whole machine, because regardless of what user is running the malware, the whole box can be taken over because the user has full admin privleges.
For a *nix environment, even if malware got in through the user's browser, it still needs an escalation of privleges to do real bad harm. Without it, the damage is largely contained to the data in the user's directory.
I thought the whole evolution of technology starts with proving that the design works. If the design is valid, then miniaturizing the design can take place over time. If the initial design doesn't work at all, then don't worry about miniaturizing it later.
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Microsoft has said that the ISO process was what prevented OOXML from receiving support in the same time frame.
Seems to me that they knew full well that ODF is a working standard that they could easily support (since they're going to support it). If they truly thought OOXML was so great, they could have spent the development time on OOXML instead, but they realize that it's not implementable.
Microsoft voluntarily chose to waste the time in the ISO process, to the detriment of the product, the shareholders, the customers, and the standards process.
For the record, I don't see how the ISO process slowed product development. It's not like the coders are the same people who are stuffing the ISO voting committees, so they do have time to code. And Companies routinely implement pre-final standards, with an update to implement the final version.
There's a local rag here in Silicon Valley that did a similar article on musicians who created the tracks for Guitar Her
But I wouldn't mind if #5 is a full blown Metal Gear Raiden.
For all the hate about Raiden, I thought that it was only due to the shock of the size of his role, and hate about his appearance. His character wasn't fully fleshed out, so I don't know if I hate him for his youthfully naive attitude to the missions. I found the playability and greater athleticism made him a good character to play, compared to the slow as molasses Snake. It was annoying to fight Liquid as he jumps all over the room, while Snake barely trots along.
Snake's greatest attribute is his gruff character, and bewildered comments ("..."). If the same level of character development was spent on Raiden, maybe he wouldn't be such a universally hated character in the Metal Gear world.
has the Japanese government considered offering pre-release Gundam merchandise only to students who complete an engineering degree?
Although it is being presented as Microsoft doing some good contributed to the project, I wonder if we could compare Gates Foundation money will flow to OLPC after the XP version is for sale. That could be the kind of non-profit pressure that would make the change of heart towards adoption of Microsoft software seem more understandable.
Comparing the money involved, OLPC = $200, OLPC + XP = $207, and Windows XP Home = $199. Hard to really explain why there is such a desire for Microsoft to cut the costs so deep just to get involved in this project. I'm sure it's not corporate altruism.
Is there really such a move towards a common UI as long as the major distributions have distribution-specific customization? Of course, the distributions have every right to do them, and many of them are helpful. They also serve as some of the most visible differentiators between the distributions.
But I don't think that a common UI will be achievable when there are significant differences out-of-the-box even among flavors of the same desktop environment.
between channel surfing and ad skipping?
Just based on personal observation, I notice most young people don't skip ads, but rather start watching another program. Their hyper short-term attention spans drive them to find new content instead of finishing the content they were originally watching. A teen will watch 10 minutes of 5 different shows in an hour, without having to use the skip button on the dvr at all.
Older people, with greater attention spans, want to continue the program they were watching, and thus use the technology to skip the ads in order to watch the entire program.
Ubuntu is a distribution, not a company. Canonical is the company.
For all the pros/cons on using a web site editor package vs writing code in a text editor, there's one issue that's been overlooked - how to manage links in a website with a large degree of depth and complexity.
As much as it may work in principle to build highly optimized pages by hand markup, it must be a nightmare to make any changes to something as tightly constructed as a hardwired web site.
no, not single player games, but party games. A couple of Microphones, a ps2, and Karaoke Revolution will go a long ways to getting shy people to let loose.
Disclaimer, I haven't actually tried the software in the links above.
Companies price mid tier products in a way to protect the price of more expensive products. With X4 out for a while, the temptation is to drop the price on them in order to drive customer interest. By introducing an X3 at a slightly cheaper price, the buying mentality changes.
Customers who look at an X3 and think "oh an X4 is only $5 more" will buy an X4 at the higher price. No need to drop the price.
Buyers who really need to save money and go with the X3, but AMD gets near X4 revenue for them, so they don't have to write off the whole chip as a loss when the yield is off.
Always be suspicious when the midtier product is introduced after the high end product is already out - you usually end up overpaying for either one.
I hope you enjoy using GNU Hurd.
"taste". Maybe geeking out is great fun for personal use, but the family probably doesn't want the front room looking like a NASA control center.
I never realized that the "Springtime for Hitler" scam in The Producers was for real!
How come the studios don't stop him from making movies? It's not like they're drowning in the money he's raking in with Bloodrayne. They have focus groups that must be universally telling them that fans of the original property don't want to see his movies. And the reviews, well the reviews speak for themselves.
"est" says that it is the absolute and there are no planets younger than it, known or unknown. The modifier of known clarifies this statement, because we do not know if this particular planet is the absolute youngest planet in existence. Only the youngest one known to us. The only way this is true is if there is a definition for what defines when a planet is formed and at this very second it can be proven there are no others. Obviously this cannot be done. Thus, both Known and Discovered are necessary and one does not imply the other.
Youngest KNOWN Planet Discovered
Although the eetimes article in the link says the encryption was broken easily, the way they developed the attack does not seem to be easy in any sense of the word. They analyzed the chip using high powered microscopes and slicing off layers to analyze the gates involved in the encryption. If that's considered "easy", then I'd sure like to see what eetimes considers "hard".
ever look at the kind of data stored in an online CRM, like salesforce.com? complete sales records, every email to every client, all the product defect issues. Maybe the SEC and the IRS may decide to look at raw data and not wait for the auditor report to come back.
In my experience, engineering school isn't geared specifically for content. It's designed to teach you some basics (electronics, math, logic, assembly language in my case), and everything done above and beyond that was designed to teach you how to solve problems. I may not know how to build an amplifier anymore, but I do know how to build a circuit, simulate it, how to adjust properties, and develop an answer.
I think the same thing goes with Calculus - Everything you did in math was done to give you the 'aha' moment that occurs when you learn derrivatives. You suffered endlessly computing deltas manually, but then you learned what a derivative is, and all of a sudden your world changed. There are other ways to solve problems. And when you realized that, then your approach to math suddenly changed - it's not about slogging through a procedure to get the answer, but to look at problems and see new ways of solving them.
The importance of college isn't what you learn there. It's whether you learn HOW to learn.
OEM video is for gamers in the first place. OEM video is just fine for what it is - people who use computers at work on office documents, presentations, and web browsing.
No matter what GPU is on the on-board video, it won't be enough for gamers.
The real issue is whether you choose want to have any one organization to own all the identification information, and if anyone truly believes it will be confined to be used only for the sole purposes as it was originally prescribed.
Microsoft found out the hard way that the public doesn't like this idea much with passport. Now the more recent technologies such as cardspace, openid, and other such frameworks talk more of how you can distribute identity among different providers or control parts of it on your own without creating the gigantic single provider of identity.
the primary difference is the elevation of privleges. Malware and viruses on Windows have no problem taking over the whole machine, because regardless of what user is running the malware, the whole box can be taken over because the user has full admin privleges.
For a *nix environment, even if malware got in through the user's browser, it still needs an escalation of privleges to do real bad harm. Without it, the damage is largely contained to the data in the user's directory.
I thought the whole evolution of technology starts with proving that the design works. If the design is valid, then miniaturizing the design can take place over time. If the initial design doesn't work at all, then don't worry about miniaturizing it later.