There is another side to this struggle, and that is people need to stop responding to spam. I've never been interested in spam that I've received, but apparently there are a few people out there who actually do buy things because of spam. If spam was ineffective, it would cost the spammers money, and eventually the flow would slow down.
One place I consistently see blown caps is in Deere power supplies. When the caps go in these, they explode, leaving cardboardy residue all over the board and surrounding components, with bits of the cap's packaging scattered about. Either the caps were being pushed beyond capactity by poor circuit design, or they were sucky capacitors, but I have replaced the blown caps with larger ones in 5 to 10 of these power supplies, which usually fixed them. I've also seen the same problem with certain motherboards -- one company I did some work for had 6 relatively new computers that were all flaky and started to fail because of leaky caps.
It's seems that this should be regarded as a good thing, but a lot of opinions here seem to regard the whole thing as an evil scheme. I don't think openness is their whole motive for moving to XML, but that doesn't make it a bad move. It may be easier for them to create and maintain Office's code if the format is XML rather than a binary format. Since storage space isn't such a premium these days, programs can afford the luxury of a file format that trades efficiency for ease of development.
You declared your variables to be 'int'; you should've used float or double. If _you_ declare the variables to be int,
1/2 = 0, not 1/2. GET IT FUCKING STRAIGHT, YOU MORON.
The number of internet users in Europe may outnumber those in North America, but the total population also outnumbers North America by over 2 to 1. A quick Google, and I came up with 314 million for NA, and 727 million for Europe. Put in this persepective, NA still has over twice as many people online, but also leaves Europe with a lot of room to grow (and hence probably faster uptake in the future).
I would have to second this opinion, but with a word of caution. Ephedrine, especially in combination with caffeine, can make your heart race, and if you take too much too often, you could end up dead. Do it in moderation, and don't make a habit of it. Oh, and you should probably eat before taking them; it seems like the combination will make you so pumped up that you run out of energy.
According to an article on The Register, Sony has already paid them $15 million for licensing; hopefully this won't set a bad precedent for everyone else giving in to them.
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There is another side to this struggle, and that is people need to stop responding to spam. I've never been interested in spam that I've received, but apparently there are a few people out there who actually do buy things because of spam. If spam was ineffective, it would cost the spammers money, and eventually the flow would slow down.
Sorry that should be Deer, not Deere.
One place I consistently see blown caps is in Deere power supplies. When the caps go in these, they explode, leaving cardboardy residue all over the board and surrounding components, with bits of the cap's packaging scattered about. Either the caps were being pushed beyond capactity by poor circuit design, or they were sucky capacitors, but I have replaced the blown caps with larger ones in 5 to 10 of these power supplies, which usually fixed them. I've also seen the same problem with certain motherboards -- one company I did some work for had 6 relatively new computers that were all flaky and started to fail because of leaky caps.
It's seems that this should be regarded as a good thing, but a lot of opinions here seem to regard the whole thing as an evil scheme. I don't think openness is their whole motive for moving to XML, but that doesn't make it a bad move. It may be easier for them to create and maintain Office's code if the format is XML rather than a binary format. Since storage space isn't such a premium these days, programs can afford the luxury of a file format that trades efficiency for ease of development.
You declared your variables to be 'int'; you should've used float or double. If _you_ declare the variables to be int, 1/2 = 0, not 1/2. GET IT FUCKING STRAIGHT, YOU MORON.
Reading on a little further...
"This limitation is scheduled to be remove. Several other items, however, currently have a slightly higher priority."
Give 'em a break, they're still working on it.
The number of internet users in Europe may outnumber those in North America, but the total population also outnumbers North America by over 2 to 1. A quick Google, and I came up with 314 million for NA, and 727 million for Europe. Put in this persepective, NA still has over twice as many people online, but also leaves Europe with a lot of room to grow (and hence probably faster uptake in the future).
I would have to second this opinion, but with a word of caution. Ephedrine, especially in combination with caffeine, can make your heart race, and if you take too much too often, you could end up dead. Do it in moderation, and don't make a habit of it. Oh, and you should probably eat before taking them; it seems like the combination will make you so pumped up that you run out of energy.
According to an article on The Register, Sony has already paid them $15 million for licensing; hopefully this won't set a bad precedent for everyone else giving in to them.