This is not a new feature - all office versions I have ever used had this. And, while not removing all traces of the document, they rendered it completely unusable.
This is definitely an area in which the open source products need to catch up!
BTW, the only reliable way to recover at least most of the content of Office-self-shredded documents that I have found was to open them with OpenOffice.org, which does a much better job at reading partly corrupted files.
It's more of a "text compiler" where you concentrate on writing the content and leave all of the formatting to a template that is responsible for transofmring the content into (normally postscript) output. Anybody who has worked with LaTex and then moved to Word, only to have that stupid piece of sh*t bunch all images in a document together, on top of each other, on the first or last page of their document will appreciate the LaTex workflow. And LaTex absolutely rocks when it comes to formulas.
That being said, LaTex comes with a siginificant learning curve, and due to its nature misses some of the features that are important in a business environment (most notably changes tracking). There are some pseudo-wysiwig frontends for LaTex, such as Lyx, but they are firmly targeted at an academic audience. Most scientific papers require submissions in.ps format, processed with a speified LaTex templates (at tleast they did when I was at Uni).
I admit freely that I own an xbox and I bought it for one reason, and one reason only: to play games. Now this may come as a shock to some people, but I do not intend to run Linux on my xbox, neither do I want to play pirated games. I earn enough money to pay for my games by now and I generally consider my software piracy days over. I own this xbox purely for entertainment purposes and so far, I consider myself reasonably well entertained, even though the games here in Australia are released about a hundred years later than anywhere else in the world.
MOst game engines out there at the moment implement a scripting language layer that implements the actual game logic. Popular choices include Python, Tcl, Lua, and (gasp) Java. Vampire The Masquerade did implement most of the game logic in java.
Sure, most of the heavy number crunching is currently done in C/C++, but all of this is moving into the graphics card anyway, so whatever environment feed the GPU will eventually become irrelevant. Furthermore, languages like Java were never designed to be used for games in the first place.
"Alas, we totally clueless idiot computer users must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother, unsolicited bulk e-mail, 'spam,' as a burden of using the Internet" Everybody else can use Thunderbird et. al. and use a spam filter. Maybe that's not a bad thing as it might finally turn some of the unwashed masses off the internet.
As far as I can recall from my active writing days, it was all about being part of the underground subculture. When somebody's piece appeared in a movie or a magazine or gained publicity through some other means, it gained the artist respect and credibility in the scene. This was generally regarded as a GOOD THING!
What I see here is some guy - admittedly a brilliant graff artist - who seems to have lost all his integrity and is just selling out.
It is not about the legality or illegality of graffiti as such, but rather about betraying a whole subculture by using the very system, that graffiti started out as a protest against in the first place, solely for personal gain. This is pretty sad.
Unless, of course, he is just trying to protect himself against the soon-to-ensue "the Graffiti made me do it!" lawsuits.
Note to Americans: Get a real legal system. Yours is obviously broken.
Having studied in Darmstadt, let me tell you it's not a place you'll wnat to name an element after. Unless, that is, it is a really geeky element that drinks lots of beer and never meets any women.
You see, Darmstadt's main claim to fame is its technical university which sadly results in a geek/women ratio of about 250...
1. A method for automated negotiation, including the following steps: creating a first rule set at a first site, the first rule set designed to participate in an automatic negotiation with a second rule set;
transmitting the first rule set from the first site to a second site,
at the second site, performing an automated negotiating process including:
comparing information present in or specified by the first rule set to a first requirement specified by a second rule set present at the second site;
if the comparison results in a first outcome, carrying out a first action, the first action including:
creating a secure container consisting of protected content and having an associated third rule set, the third rule set being created as a result of an interaction between the first rule set and the second rule set;
transmitting the secure container from the second site to the first site; and
using a rule from the third rule set to govern an aspect of access to or use of the protected content; and
if the comparison results in a second outcome, carrying a second action, which is different in at least one respect from the first action
If I actually try and understand that, it seems to read like this:
"Send something to somewhere. If it is One Thing, do something. If it is Another Thing, do something else". Now throw the words electronically and secure in there somewhere, and you get Instant Software Patent(tm) Just Add Lawyers(tm).
To display the abilities of applications written specifically for Desktop/LX Tablet Edition, Lycoris has created Tablet XGalaga, a customized version of the arcade-inspired open source program. Now you can experience the power at your fingertips!
In related news, Microsoft commented on the perceived threat to their tablet PC platform:
"Even though this is a pretty slick move on their part, our developers are working right now on a new and improved version of TabletMinesweeper. Not only will it feature much bigger buttons, we will also include improved 16-color graphics and at least two different sound effects. That oughtta show them who's boss."
But seriously, if you want to show off the power of your high-tech bleeding edge computing platform, don't use GALAGA, for god's sake!
Just make sure you replace the OpenOffice.org icons in the start menu with their windows counterparts and rename them to "Word", "Excel", etc.
I guarantee you that most of the time, Moms will not even notice the difference, at least mine will just assume her memory about how the software looked the last time just let her down.
I have recently been thinking about something like this - after trying out Knoppix, I realised that what I need is some easily portable data storage (with more storage space than a USB stick), so that I can carry my complete computing environment with me. Just need to whack a CD into any bluetooth/802.11b enabled computer, automount the drive and away I go.
I agree with some of the posters in this thread that this might eventually reduce the clunky hardware bits (keyboards and screens, mainly) to commodities that just sit on desks and are shared by whoever needs to access their data at the moment.
From the article: In 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote, broadened the scope of what is patentable by directing the USPTO to grant patents on human-made, genetically engineered bacteria.
Should that not be... directing the USPTO to employ human-made, genetically engineered bacteria? Because it seems to me that is exactly what they are doing. Either that, or rolling dice...
The post mentions two websites, firstly the (very very old) HI page, which believes that submenus are the dog's bollocks (that means they're great, for you Americans), and the interface hall of sha,e which has the following to say about submenus:
"Submenus are possibly the only interface element that can be physically very hard to use, and therefore should be avoided in UI design at all times, if at all possible. "
I also question the reason for this appearing on slashdot at all. What's next - good interface design on the Commodore 64???
Slashdot Mirror
This is not a new feature - all office versions I have ever used had this. And, while not removing all traces of the document, they rendered it completely unusable.
This is definitely an area in which the open source products need to catch up!
BTW, the only reliable way to recover at least most of the content of Office-self-shredded documents that I have found was to open them with OpenOffice.org, which does a much better job at reading partly corrupted files.
seats... wouldn't it be a shame if nobody showed up?
That's only because somebody got scared that Microsoft could sue them for IP violations.
It's more of a "text compiler" where you concentrate on writing the content and leave all of the formatting to a template that is responsible for transofmring the content into (normally postscript) output. Anybody who has worked with LaTex and then moved to Word, only to have that stupid piece of sh*t bunch all images in a document together, on top of each other, on the first or last page of their document will appreciate the LaTex workflow. And LaTex absolutely rocks when it comes to formulas.
.ps format, processed with a speified LaTex templates (at tleast they did when I was at Uni).
That being said, LaTex comes with a siginificant learning curve, and due to its nature misses some of the features that are important in a business environment (most notably changes tracking). There are some pseudo-wysiwig frontends for LaTex, such as Lyx, but they are firmly targeted at an academic audience. Most scientific papers require submissions in
Microsoft just announced their new "Wiwnods" product line. Quoth a MS spokesman 'Ah, most people won't even notice the difference'
hmmm... considering that the xbox network traffic is encrypted, how do you propose to identify netwok packets carrying "update" patches?
I admit freely that I own an xbox and I bought it for one reason, and one reason only: to play games. Now this may come as a shock to some people, but I do not intend to run Linux on my xbox, neither do I want to play pirated games. I earn enough money to pay for my games by now and I generally consider my software piracy days over.
I own this xbox purely for entertainment purposes and so far, I consider myself reasonably well entertained, even though the games here in Australia are released about a hundred years later than anywhere else in the world.
MOst game engines out there at the moment implement a scripting language layer that implements the actual game logic. Popular choices include Python, Tcl, Lua, and (gasp) Java. Vampire The Masquerade did implement most of the game logic in java. Sure, most of the heavy number crunching is currently done in C/C++, but all of this is moving into the graphics card anyway, so whatever environment feed the GPU will eventually become irrelevant.
Furthermore, languages like Java were never designed to be used for games in the first place.
It should read:
"Alas, we totally clueless idiot computer users must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother, unsolicited bulk e-mail, 'spam,' as a burden of using the Internet"
Everybody else can use Thunderbird et. al. and use a spam filter. Maybe that's not a bad thing as it might finally turn some of the unwashed masses off the internet.
As far as I can recall from my active writing days, it was all about being part of the underground subculture. When somebody's piece appeared in a movie or a magazine or gained publicity through some other means, it gained the artist respect and credibility in the scene. This was generally regarded as a GOOD THING!
What I see here is some guy - admittedly a brilliant graff artist - who seems to have lost all his integrity and is just selling out.
It is not about the legality or illegality of graffiti as such, but rather about betraying a whole subculture by using the very system, that graffiti started out as a protest against in the first place, solely for personal gain.
This is pretty sad.
Unless, of course, he is just trying to protect himself against the soon-to-ensue "the Graffiti made me do it!" lawsuits.
Note to Americans: Get a real legal system. Yours is obviously broken.
shame you can't get any.
I can give my wife a new processor for her birthday! I can see it now:
"But it's an 18 carat Intel, darling!" - "WHACK"
a "predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division"
So it's a cancer then?
Having studied in Darmstadt, let me tell you it's not a place you'll wnat to name an element after.
Unless, that is, it is a really geeky element that drinks lots of beer and never meets any women.
You see, Darmstadt's main claim to fame is its technical university which sadly results in a geek/women ratio of about 250...
If I actually try and understand that, it seems to read like this:
"Send something to somewhere. If it is One Thing, do something. If it is Another Thing, do something else". Now throw the words electronically and secure in there somewhere, and you get Instant Software Patent(tm) Just Add Lawyers(tm).
This whole system is really fucked.
To display the abilities of applications written specifically for Desktop/LX Tablet Edition, Lycoris has created Tablet XGalaga, a customized version of the arcade-inspired open source program. Now you can experience the power at your fingertips!
In related news, Microsoft commented on the perceived threat to their tablet PC platform:
"Even though this is a pretty slick move on their part, our developers are working right now on a new and improved version of TabletMinesweeper. Not only will it feature much bigger buttons, we will also include improved 16-color graphics and at least two different sound effects. That oughtta show them who's boss."
But seriously, if you want to show off the power of your high-tech bleeding edge computing platform, don't use GALAGA, for god's sake!
Just make sure you replace the OpenOffice.org icons in the start menu with their windows counterparts and rename them to "Word", "Excel", etc.
I guarantee you that most of the time, Moms will not even notice the difference, at least mine will just assume her memory about how the software looked the last time just let her down.
you'd be infringing (at least four times, possibly five, counting a spare wheel), on this guy's patent.
tough luck.
At least make the routers solar-powered. That's what deserts are best known for. Sun, and lots of it.
I have recently been thinking about something like this - after trying out Knoppix, I realised that what I need is some easily portable data storage (with more storage space than a USB stick), so that I can carry my complete computing environment with me. Just need to whack a CD into any bluetooth/802.11b enabled computer, automount the drive and away I go.
I agree with some of the posters in this thread that this might eventually reduce the clunky hardware bits (keyboards and screens, mainly) to commodities that just sit on desks and are shared by whoever needs to access their data at the moment.
Do I understand this correctly:
Geek is about to score, music runs out,
girl reconsiders. Geek then starts programming
project to make him COOLER???
It's a sad sad world...
From the article: In 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote, broadened the scope of what is patentable by directing the USPTO to grant patents on human-made, genetically engineered bacteria.
... directing the USPTO to employ human-made, genetically engineered bacteria?
Should that not be
Because it seems to me that is exactly what they are doing. Either that, or rolling dice...
And be glad it's not all wheat and corn fields reeking of cow manure.
Well, at least that problem seems to have been solved, according to previous article...
in the first 40 or so posts. I believe that sets a new record. But what do you expect, putting the term "one billion dollars" in the post...
The post mentions two websites, firstly the (very very old) HI page, which believes that submenus are the dog's bollocks (that means they're great, for you Americans), and the interface hall of sha,e which has the following to say about submenus:
"Submenus are possibly the only interface element that can be physically very hard to use, and therefore should be avoided in UI design at all times, if at all possible. "
I also question the reason for this appearing on slashdot at all. What's next - good interface design on the Commodore 64???