Possibly shows how little I know of Windows development, but I was surprised to find *.sed files and a grep.exe file in the Word for Windows source. Is it possible that MS employed people... hairy people... with beards.... who had worked with *nix?
Seriously Apple (and Tim Cook) should be called out for this scumbaggery because clearly it ain't in the interests of anyone ('cept Comcast and media providers with deep pockets).
Does JSON support namespaces? AFAIK it doesn't, and that would seem to make it suitable only for fairly simple data interchange and not really scalable.
As far as which is best visually... XML is a bit wordy/busy, especially if it uses a lot namespaces, but it's a pretty minor problem given that with both XML and JSON, it's a piece of piss to write a nice visual editor.
The important thing for me is having a solid platform for building applications, and XML has the capability and maturity for that - even if it is a bit ugly!
I know it's bad-form replying to my own post, but it does appear that there is some kind of namespacing going on in the OData spec. Does anyone know if this namespacing is part of the JSON standard, or is it just a convention that OASIS are using?
Does JSON support namespaces? AFAIK it doesn't, and that would seem to make it suitable only for fairly simple data interchange and not really scalable.
As far as which is best visually... XML is a bit wordy/busy, especially if it uses a lot namespaces, but it's a pretty minor problem given that with both XML and JSON, it's a piece of piss to write a nice visual editor.
The important thing for me is having a solid platform for building applications, and XML has the capability and maturity for that - even if it is a bit ugly!
In July 2012 I was searching for car insurance and found it hilarious that More-Than's (morethan.com) password policy at the time was:
Be between 8 and 14 characters
Not include more than 2 repeated characters in a row
Not include the word 'guest'
Not contain swear words
Obviously they're storing the password, and at a guess, the reason for no-swear-words is that their call-centre staff confirm your identity with your password... or something? Whatever. But what's up with not including "guest" in there? It must be some kind of magic keyword that makes their system do something different or something!!
It's still open in the sense that legally you can do whatever you want with it.
It's up to you if you want to make Google happy or not.
Google can deny you from adding Google's apps and services on it, though, and the moment you ship an Android-device without those you're removing a lot of the reason for why an Average Jane or Joe would want an Android-device in the first place.
True, but it's worth noting that that Microsoft is well positioned to fill those gaps (assuming we're specifically talking about an app-store, search, email and maps). Whilst I do appreciate that Android without the Google bits and with no alternatives is a bit crap, it seems a bit unfair to blame Google for that. That'd be like if Microsoft open-sourced Windows and gave it away for free, and then complaining that they didn't include MS Office.
"Here are your new tablets, kids. They're ruggedized so that they resist breaking!"
*CRACK!*
"Now, Tommy, why did you do that? Of course smashing it against the desk will break it!"
This. I recall from my childhood having to "test" both shatter-proof rulers (for some reason when you're aged 8 shatter-proof = indestructible = must test this) and water-resistant watches (when you're 8 years old, water-resistant = completely water-proof).
I'm surprised this thing is very different to modern viruses given that it's *only* 30K years old. I appreciate these things are always evolving, but I would've thought they'd have done most of their evolving in the previous 3-billion years or whatever. So presumably, being big wasn't a problem for a virus until relatively recently?
Linux will inherit the Earth. Tremble, M$ Office paperclip.
The hilarious thing about this is that there's someone as MS who has decided that the best way to approach the problem of Android/ChromeOS taking their market share is to... compete on price. Because that's going to work isn't it?
Robing Google of Android market-share would be both amusing, and potentially profitable!
It would be good to see other companies competing with Google for a bundled app-stack on Android, so if MS or even Apple were to compete, then this would be a good thing.
But just to pick up on your point about it being "amusing", I assume you're saying that because Google created Android, and thus if they got screwed over for making a genuinely open platform, this would some how be funny?
Let's be clear here, Google have been playing nice (mostly) all the way through. That's why other people can take that platform and monetise it without paying Google a bean. I'd love to see MS do something like that... because of course, they wouldn't.
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According to this article, it seems that many of the people who do survive, do so because the flights were shorter.
Might also be useful if you wanted to pass data through the router without being noticed?
They'll use this to fund attacks on hair salons in London!!
I have a Sharp EL-506P calculator that is approx. 28 years old that I still use *and* it's still on it's original batteries!
You are having deja-vu.
Possibly shows how little I know of Windows development, but I was surprised to find *.sed files and a grep.exe file in the Word for Windows source. Is it possible that MS employed people... hairy people... with beards.... who had worked with *nix?
Are you using Chrome? 'cos that often tries to translate stuff.... just saying! ;)
Hey look, some idiot hit the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal and it's "news" because it was a Tesla.
Also, if the gap was too big, his foot might get trapped in between, which I'd imagine is more hazardous?
^ This.
Seriously Apple (and Tim Cook) should be called out for this scumbaggery because clearly it ain't in the interests of anyone ('cept Comcast and media providers with deep pockets).
They told him he performed like Windows 8?
The words they used were worse than Windows 8. That's what really stung! :D
Does JSON support namespaces? AFAIK it doesn't, and that would seem to make it suitable only for fairly simple data interchange and not really scalable. As far as which is best visually... XML is a bit wordy/busy, especially if it uses a lot namespaces, but it's a pretty minor problem given that with both XML and JSON, it's a piece of piss to write a nice visual editor. The important thing for me is having a solid platform for building applications, and XML has the capability and maturity for that - even if it is a bit ugly!
I know it's bad-form replying to my own post, but it does appear that there is some kind of namespacing going on in the OData spec. Does anyone know if this namespacing is part of the JSON standard, or is it just a convention that OASIS are using?
:D
Eitherway, I still prefer XML!
Does JSON support namespaces? AFAIK it doesn't, and that would seem to make it suitable only for fairly simple data interchange and not really scalable.
As far as which is best visually... XML is a bit wordy/busy, especially if it uses a lot namespaces, but it's a pretty minor problem given that with both XML and JSON, it's a piece of piss to write a nice visual editor.
The important thing for me is having a solid platform for building applications, and XML has the capability and maturity for that - even if it is a bit ugly!
Obviously they're storing the password, and at a guess, the reason for no-swear-words is that their call-centre staff confirm your identity with your password... or something? Whatever. But what's up with not including "guest" in there? It must be some kind of magic keyword that makes their system do something different or something!!
I didn't get my insurance with them in the end!
It's still open in the sense that legally you can do whatever you want with it. It's up to you if you want to make Google happy or not.
Google can deny you from adding Google's apps and services on it, though, and the moment you ship an Android-device without those you're removing a lot of the reason for why an Average Jane or Joe would want an Android-device in the first place.
True, but it's worth noting that that Microsoft is well positioned to fill those gaps (assuming we're specifically talking about an app-store, search, email and maps). Whilst I do appreciate that Android without the Google bits and with no alternatives is a bit crap, it seems a bit unfair to blame Google for that. That'd be like if Microsoft open-sourced Windows and gave it away for free, and then complaining that they didn't include MS Office.
"Here are your new tablets, kids. They're ruggedized so that they resist breaking!" *CRACK!* "Now, Tommy, why did you do that? Of course smashing it against the desk will break it!"
This. I recall from my childhood having to "test" both shatter-proof rulers (for some reason when you're aged 8 shatter-proof = indestructible = must test this) and water-resistant watches (when you're 8 years old, water-resistant = completely water-proof).
You're the spirit of Jazz?
but from the still image the guy looks like a monkey
Ummmm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon.
I'm surprised this thing is very different to modern viruses given that it's *only* 30K years old. I appreciate these things are always evolving, but I would've thought they'd have done most of their evolving in the previous 3-billion years or whatever. So presumably, being big wasn't a problem for a virus until relatively recently?
Maybe it's a "you didn't make me CEO of MS, so this is what you get" message from Elop?! :D
Linux will inherit the Earth. Tremble, M$ Office paperclip.
The hilarious thing about this is that there's someone as MS who has decided that the best way to approach the problem of Android/ChromeOS taking their market share is to... compete on price. Because that's going to work isn't it?
Ahh... sorry for misunderstanding. Yeah, that would be pretty funny!! :D
Robing Google of Android market-share would be both amusing, and potentially profitable!
It would be good to see other companies competing with Google for a bundled app-stack on Android, so if MS or even Apple were to compete, then this would be a good thing.
But just to pick up on your point about it being "amusing", I assume you're saying that because Google created Android, and thus if they got screwed over for making a genuinely open platform, this would some how be funny?
Let's be clear here, Google have been playing nice (mostly) all the way through. That's why other people can take that platform and monetise it without paying Google a bean. I'd love to see MS do something like that... because of course, they wouldn't.
A photo booth at a mall I think had 'kernal panic' on the screen, so I assume it was linux.
Wouldn't you feel insulted if it had a kernel panic right after taking your picture?!
10 years of service when built to last 90 days.
Thank the Martian winds. The wind blows the dust off of the rovers solar collectors, that wasn't expected.
It could do with another scrub though... them Martian dust devils are getting lazy!!. I'm amazed any solar energy actually gets through all that stuff.
[raises glass to the continued awesomeness of Opportunity rover]
Thanks, but $8 for a bulb that lasts 25% more than my .78 bulbs doesn't really appeal to me.
That was a box of 10! But they are generally a bit more expensive it's true.