I realize this is redundant by now, but I think this is important enough to warrant a few duplicated posts.
For Microsoft's XML format to be useful (and even worth implementing), it's going to require some advantages above and beyond what plain text formatting offers. The only completely useless XML format would be:
<document> This is my document. Second paragraph. </document>
I make the assumption that at least some tags are applied, such as some sort of paragraph tags and the like. I may be going out on a limb here, but I would even assume that their final XML format will produce documents identical to.doc files. I would also assume that I could pass this file off to Joe in marketing, and he would see a document identical to the one I saw.
What I'm getting at is that style has to be held somewhere. If the XML file has no style associated with it, then congratulations, Microsoft, you did it right. But if Word can display the right formatting, then so can anyone else. (Assuming Word doesn't store the styles in a proprietary format, which I don't think is beyond them.)
But why am I even writing this? From the article:
However, Mark McWilliams, a software engineer and Office 2003 beta tester, said he has seen nothing to indicate that Office 2003 removes formatting information from files saved in.xml. He noted that he opened a heavily formatted.doc Microsoft Word file, saved the file as XML, and later opened the file in Word 2003, "The opened XML document looks exactly like the original.doc file," he said. "And if I open up the XML file in a text editor, I can see that all of the formatting is properly maintained in the XML file."
I think the important thing about teaching XHTML is to avoid the mistakes of HTML. For example, if you're teaching XHTML, you don't want to spend a class teaching your students the ins and outs of table-based layout.
XHTML and HTML look similar, but the mindset of XHTML is completely different. Any XHTML course would have to emphasize CSS just as strongly. We're working towards seperation of content and style here. HTML assumes you're going to use linebreaks for formatting, and transparent GIFs for spacing, and dozens of other tricks that make all your pages a headache to work with.
Heh, I've never run a display at more than 1024x768. I've used a 15" Acer monitor with my Linux machine for some time, the 12" LCD on my iBook, and my old 17" Apple Studio Display. I get sort of lost and confused at anything higher than that.
Anyway, I'm all for bringing back 832x624. Anybody remember those Apple setups?;) Enough for an extra icon horizonally! Isn't technology amazing?
Apple uses a.plist file to add certain things to the Dock. It does stuff like "Change the pathname of this Dock app", or "Insert this app after the Finder". It was probably applied after your update.
I believe it's located in the Dock.app bundle, if anybody wants to poke around.
My Cultural Anthropology class had an assigned reading on "Doublespeak": Language, Appearance, and Reality: Doublespeak in 1984, by William D. Lutz of Rutgers University. It reviews gems like TV's with "nonmulticolor capability", and "ballistically induced aperture in the subcutaneous environment" (a bullet hole).
Lutz, along with being a Professor of English, was involved with the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Public Doublespeak (that's a mouthful), as well as the editor of the Quarterly Review of Doublespeak.
The NCTE has only a placeholder page for their Quarterly Review, but it does offer some useful information on their mailing list. A search for "doublespeak" on the same site brings back many hits for their George Orwell Award.
I've had the same question, and a product search on NewEgg.com brought up three results from ABIT and none from anybody else. I'm thinking about buying the KD7-E in the near future.
It looks to be a powerful board, but I would be making the switch from SDRAM to DDR, which doubles the cost of the upgrade to get any acceptable amount of RAM.
Several people have mentioned "printing more money" in response to my original post. I never implied that printing money is the answer to the problems that people are seeing. Quite the opposite, really. What I criticize is the capitalist mindset, and the point when money becomes a barrier to progress.
Resources are available. Assuming Russia would not blindly squander them, why shouldn't they be provided? Their "payment" is research and advancement in space technology, which could benefit us all.
I am upset that their are people who cannot get an education or even feed themselves because of a lack of money (just to touch the tip of the iceburg). Yes, people can get scholarships. Yes, they can go to food kitchens, etc. But these "solutions" are only there because someone else is willing to foot the bill.
It seems to me that education and food are pretty basic human rights. Take a step back and look at our society. There are people who struggle very hard to maintain these two very important pieces of their lives and the lives of those they support. That doesn't strike anyone else as completely asinine?
Picture it without the money and the ego and the greed. People work all day to keep the human ecosystem going, and they still get the "rewards" of food, clothing, etc.
"But what about the extras? Shouldn't I be able to buy myself a cruise if I work hard? Shouldn't I be able to lease that new car and buy a new PDA?"
"Shouldn't I watch my family and friends starve to death in some third-world country that most Americans have never heard of?"
I don't claim to have any answers. I wish I did.. Just asking people to maybe consider things a little differently.
The global dependence on money is appalling and ridiculous. Money as motivation will only bring the human race so far, and probably in the wrong direction. What happens now, when such a major player in the space race is forced to resign because they cannot secure enough meaningless currency to further scientific research in space? It is a terrible waste of human potential.
Future generations will look at us as petty and shortsighted, squandering finite resources we have no claim to with regards only to our own instant gratification. That is, if there are any resources left for the human race to survive on after a few hundred years.
Cynical? Not me. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to drive my SUV through a red light while talking on a cell phone.
I would definitely pay one cent to skip a commercial. That would be awesome functionality.. 90% of commercials don't apply to me (tampons, home appliances, new cars, the list goes on). The other 10% very rarely show me things I haven't seen a million times before.
For one dollar, I could probably skip an entire month's worth of commercials. Where do I sign?
The special features on the new Fellowship of the Ring DVD set has a bit to say on Massive as well. Pretty interesting stuff.. I hope at some point we get to see the various testing stages of these battles, when they didn't quite work out as expected. =) (The earlier comment about "actors" running away from each other as an example.)
I've been borrowing my boss's old Palm IIIx on and off for the past few weeks. The first word that comes to mind is "indispensable". Who needs a brain when you've got a Palm? I carry it with me where ever I go, and I don't have to worry about forgetting things anymore.
The Calendar, To Do List, and Memos are invaluable. I've only begun to play around with the Mail synchronization. The prospect of jotting down quick e-mails when I'm on the go and sending them as soon as I sit at my desk gives me little goosebumps. Mmm..
As other people have mentioned: I'm sure it's not as useful to people who don't have many appointments. I'm a student, but work schedules me for various jobs and it's nice to keep track on that information in a Palm instead of a stack of papers.
If you're going to die, you might as well die happy. If I'm diagnosed with something terminal, I'm not going to spend the last days of my life sulking around. What a waste that would be..
That's odd.. I have the same setup, and I have no problems watching DVDs in Mac OS X 10.2. I can even watch a normal-sized (~320x240) DivX movie full-screen with very few dropped frames.
I notice the same slowdown browsing in Mozilla. Explorer is slightly faster, but more prone to locking up randomly...
Personally, I prefer Linux for server stuff. The hardware is less expensive and more customizable, the OS is free, and I know I can update software packages without breaking anything. There's also less overhead from the rest of the system. (I don't know about yours, but my web server doesn't really need an Aqua GUI.)
Mac OS X 10.2 runs slow on every G3 I've seen, including my iBook (which, admittedly, is only 500MHz with a 67MHz bus). G4 Macs are a totally different story. On those machines, I've found OS X to be snappy and responsive. Even the 450MHz G4 tower I use at work runs well.
This topic is already stuffed to the gills with comments, but I like the prospect of Redundant mods.
E-mail was never intended to be a file transfer system. People need to be educated on using something like a file transfer protocol for transferring files. Makes sense, no?
I suppose I can deal with one image every so often, but I'd much rather receive a URL where I can view the picture. My university sets a quota on my Inbox. I don't need it filling up with data that is handled far better with some other application.
Seriously, has the human population been reducing the amount of ozone-depleting activities? I didn't anticipate hearing this kind of news in my lifetime.
I realize this is coming off as extremely sarcastic, but I thought we were still pumping out the carbon monoxide at apocalyptic rates.
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cd /usr/src/linux
perl -i -e 's/^PATCHLEVEL = 4$/PATCHLEVEL = 2/' Makefile
All the benefits of 2.4, with the beautiful, symmetric numbering of 2.2.
I think the important thing about teaching XHTML is to avoid the mistakes of HTML. For example, if you're teaching XHTML, you don't want to spend a class teaching your students the ins and outs of table-based layout.
XHTML and HTML look similar, but the mindset of XHTML is completely different. Any XHTML course would have to emphasize CSS just as strongly. We're working towards seperation of content and style here. HTML assumes you're going to use linebreaks for formatting, and transparent GIFs for spacing, and dozens of other tricks that make all your pages a headache to work with.
Heh, I've never run a display at more than 1024x768. I've used a 15" Acer monitor with my Linux machine for some time, the 12" LCD on my iBook, and my old 17" Apple Studio Display. I get sort of lost and confused at anything higher than that.
;) Enough for an extra icon horizonally! Isn't technology amazing?
Anyway, I'm all for bringing back 832x624. Anybody remember those Apple setups?
But I'll happily accept donation machines to get the ball rolling. ;)
Apple uses a .plist file to add certain things to the Dock. It does stuff like "Change the pathname of this Dock app", or "Insert this app after the Finder". It was probably applied after your update.
I believe it's located in the Dock.app bundle, if anybody wants to poke around.
My Cultural Anthropology class had an assigned reading on "Doublespeak": Language, Appearance, and Reality: Doublespeak in 1984, by William D. Lutz of Rutgers University. It reviews gems like TV's with "nonmulticolor capability", and "ballistically induced aperture in the subcutaneous environment" (a bullet hole).
Lutz, along with being a Professor of English, was involved with the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Public Doublespeak (that's a mouthful), as well as the editor of the Quarterly Review of Doublespeak.
The NCTE has only a placeholder page for their Quarterly Review, but it does offer some useful information on their mailing list. A search for "doublespeak" on the same site brings back many hits for their George Orwell Award.
Apple's G4 PowerBooks have had gigabit Ethernet for quite some time, 12" model excluded. So has every PowerMac G4 in the past, oh, two years, I think.
I've had the same question, and a product search on NewEgg.com brought up three results from ABIT and none from anybody else. I'm thinking about buying the KD7-E in the near future.
It looks to be a powerful board, but I would be making the switch from SDRAM to DDR, which doubles the cost of the upgrade to get any acceptable amount of RAM.
Several people have mentioned "printing more money" in response to my original post. I never implied that printing money is the answer to the problems that people are seeing. Quite the opposite, really. What I criticize is the capitalist mindset, and the point when money becomes a barrier to progress.
Resources are available. Assuming Russia would not blindly squander them, why shouldn't they be provided? Their "payment" is research and advancement in space technology, which could benefit us all.
I am upset that their are people who cannot get an education or even feed themselves because of a lack of money (just to touch the tip of the iceburg). Yes, people can get scholarships. Yes, they can go to food kitchens, etc. But these "solutions" are only there because someone else is willing to foot the bill.
It seems to me that education and food are pretty basic human rights. Take a step back and look at our society. There are people who struggle very hard to maintain these two very important pieces of their lives and the lives of those they support. That doesn't strike anyone else as completely asinine?
Picture it without the money and the ego and the greed. People work all day to keep the human ecosystem going, and they still get the "rewards" of food, clothing, etc.
"But what about the extras? Shouldn't I be able to buy myself a cruise if I work hard? Shouldn't I be able to lease that new car and buy a new PDA?"
"Shouldn't I watch my family and friends starve to death in some third-world country that most Americans have never heard of?"
I don't claim to have any answers. I wish I did.. Just asking people to maybe consider things a little differently.
It is about money. So much revolves around it, when in reality it is just an abstraction, an idea.
If not money, then what is it about, pray tell? Enlighten me with your breathtaking wisdom.
The global dependence on money is appalling and ridiculous. Money as motivation will only bring the human race so far, and probably in the wrong direction. What happens now, when such a major player in the space race is forced to resign because they cannot secure enough meaningless currency to further scientific research in space? It is a terrible waste of human potential.
Future generations will look at us as petty and shortsighted, squandering finite resources we have no claim to with regards only to our own instant gratification. That is, if there are any resources left for the human race to survive on after a few hundred years.
Cynical? Not me. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to drive my SUV through a red light while talking on a cell phone.
I would definitely pay one cent to skip a commercial. That would be awesome functionality.. 90% of commercials don't apply to me (tampons, home appliances, new cars, the list goes on). The other 10% very rarely show me things I haven't seen a million times before.
For one dollar, I could probably skip an entire month's worth of commercials. Where do I sign?
Does this mean Will Ferrell isn't really Santa? =(
The special features on the new Fellowship of the Ring DVD set has a bit to say on Massive as well. Pretty interesting stuff.. I hope at some point we get to see the various testing stages of these battles, when they didn't quite work out as expected. =) (The earlier comment about "actors" running away from each other as an example.)
(Adding to bloated threads is fun!)
I've been borrowing my boss's old Palm IIIx on and off for the past few weeks. The first word that comes to mind is "indispensable". Who needs a brain when you've got a Palm? I carry it with me where ever I go, and I don't have to worry about forgetting things anymore.
The Calendar, To Do List, and Memos are invaluable. I've only begun to play around with the Mail synchronization. The prospect of jotting down quick e-mails when I'm on the go and sending them as soon as I sit at my desk gives me little goosebumps. Mmm..
As other people have mentioned: I'm sure it's not as useful to people who don't have many appointments. I'm a student, but work schedules me for various jobs and it's nice to keep track on that information in a Palm instead of a stack of papers.
If you're going to die, you might as well die happy. If I'm diagnosed with something terminal, I'm not going to spend the last days of my life sulking around. What a waste that would be..
Heh, not funny.. That's what my university's ITS department has decided to migrate to. =(
Like I said: OS X on my G3 is slow.
I notice the same slowdown browsing in Mozilla. Explorer is slightly faster, but more prone to locking up randomly...
Personally, I prefer Linux for server stuff. The hardware is less expensive and more customizable, the OS is free, and I know I can update software packages without breaking anything. There's also less overhead from the rest of the system. (I don't know about yours, but my web server doesn't really need an Aqua GUI.)
Just kidding. But now that I have your attention:
Mac OS X 10.2 runs slow on every G3 I've seen, including my iBook (which, admittedly, is only 500MHz with a 67MHz bus). G4 Macs are a totally different story. On those machines, I've found OS X to be snappy and responsive. Even the 450MHz G4 tower I use at work runs well.
This topic is already stuffed to the gills with comments, but I like the prospect of Redundant mods.
E-mail was never intended to be a file transfer system. People need to be educated on using something like a file transfer protocol for transferring files. Makes sense, no?
I suppose I can deal with one image every so often, but I'd much rather receive a URL where I can view the picture. My university sets a quota on my Inbox. I don't need it filling up with data that is handled far better with some other application.
Seriously, has the human population been reducing the amount of ozone-depleting activities? I didn't anticipate hearing this kind of news in my lifetime.
I realize this is coming off as extremely sarcastic, but I thought we were still pumping out the carbon monoxide at apocalyptic rates.