Because an XML Parser has everybody supporting it so you don't have to bloody roll your own parser, you can get a dozen off the shelf. As to the expressive limitations of xml vs xyz parser's native format for grammer specification, you can do anything you want in XML that you can do with said parsers grammer.
Plus, you are forgetting that being able to save to xml also means being able to *load FROM XML*.
Meaning you can shove data into these end-user applications using any number of techniques or data sources, rather than being limited to the applications data management interface (which in the case of microsoft, is complete crap).
In relation to microsoft writing their own xml document standard, it is extremely nasty; the reason being that microsoft programmers are lazy and will simply convert their binary document to some truly nasty xml format, with most of the data segments likely to be unparseable. Take a look at their Save As HTML support, which sticks in so many microsoft-specific urns that it is so annoying to work with. So while another reader was correct in saying that you can just transform their xml syntax into the OASIS planned standard, practically speaking, you will have to create a sophisticated style sheet which will probably change with each new release of office..... functionality you will end up replicating every time they release a new version.
Thermodynamic has a classic case (illustration) of this; a smothe bowling ball, dropped into a fluid, has a particular drag (X). If you roughen the front of the bowling ball (an effort that results in MORE drag intuitively), you counterintertuitively DECREASE the overall drag of the system! Ergo, adding a little "inefficiency" can do wonders for overall system performance.
Personally, I am very excited, and would LOVE to have this system available. My concern, is that of the inevitable hack to get around it, which is distributed email spam via trojans:)
If you destroy this program, H-1 do you see more US companies willing to pay twice as much for the same amount of work, or do you see the company move their IT departments to another country all together? As long as their is competent, skilled, cheap labor outside of the country, why should people hire you?
simple. consumerism. most of these nations
are presumerably poorer; poor people do not spend freely, and if they spend freely, will be spending it at home nation.
As americans, we have all been accustomed to buying things through years of experience [and commercials telling us to]; and we live in the US where most US corporations pay taxes and do business. If you don't pay well *as an employer* than nobody will pay you well for your products. Outsourcing won't work in the long-run, its only good as a supplement. Same as trying to do regular business with a consulting firm. They'll rip you off and steal you blind.
What we need to allow, it the open selling of US citizenship rights by US citizens to anybody who wants it.
So what happens to the poor people who sold their citizenship. Must they leave the country or do they just slowly accumulate as a mass of poor residents who are no longer protected as citizens by US law.
Would it make a difference?
check out california, where illegal
immigrants can enjoy the splendors
of city services despite a lack of
citizenship.
Pretty much citizenship gives you
the right to vote; everything else
is already being doled out in secondhand
citizenship statii(status, plural).
And its not even that big a deal; before
Gore vs. Bush, voter turnout was at an
all-time low (14%). That means 14% of
the US population (288 million last I
checked), felt the need (or desire) to vote,
and most of those votes went to 1 of 2 parties,
both of which suck ass.
Come on people. This entire debate regarding
H1B's is completely xenophobic and unrealistic.
It isn't the H1B visa program thats the problem,
its 2 severe stock fraud swindles, a terrorist attack and an industry wide collapse (VC bubble) that have caused this unemployment issue.
I might also add, that I have personally been unemployed for 1.3 years, I can attest to the fact it is not H1B's, its a shit market that is causing these problems. I've applied to positions that I was eminently over-qualified for, and no response. Companies are worried about folding, and so long as thats the case,
NO-ONE is hiring.
Personally, I'm thinking of retraining.
Then, when it recovers (somewhat)[and it will],
I'll bring the expertise from this interim job to coding again. Like those wonderful programming positions in the financial markets that require 3-5 years experience coding trading systems:)
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Plus, you are forgetting that being able to save to xml also means being able to *load FROM XML*. Meaning you can shove data into these end-user applications using any number of techniques or data sources, rather than being limited to the applications data management interface (which in the case of microsoft, is complete crap).
In relation to microsoft writing their own xml document standard, it is extremely nasty; the reason being that microsoft programmers are lazy and will simply convert their binary document to some truly nasty xml format, with most of the data segments likely to be unparseable. Take a look at their Save As HTML support, which sticks in so many microsoft-specific urns that it is so annoying to work with. So while another reader was correct in saying that you can just transform their xml syntax into the OASIS planned standard, practically speaking, you will have to create a sophisticated style sheet which will probably change with each new release of office..... functionality you will end up replicating every time they release a new version.
Thermodynamic has a classic case (illustration) of this; a smothe bowling ball, dropped into a fluid, has a particular drag (X). If you roughen the front of the bowling ball (an effort that results in MORE drag intuitively), you counterintertuitively DECREASE the overall drag of the system! Ergo, adding a little "inefficiency" can do wonders for overall system performance.
Personally, I am very excited, and would LOVE to have this system available. My concern, is that of the inevitable hack to get around it, which is distributed email spam via trojans :)
simple. consumerism. most of these nations are presumerably poorer; poor people do not spend freely, and if they spend freely, will be spending it at home nation.
As americans, we have all been accustomed to buying things through years of experience [and commercials telling us to]; and we live in the US where most US corporations pay taxes and do business. If you don't pay well *as an employer* than nobody will pay you well for your products. Outsourcing won't work in the long-run, its only good as a supplement. Same as trying to do regular business with a consulting firm. They'll rip you off and steal you blind.
Paul
So what happens to the poor people who sold their citizenship. Must they leave the country or do they just slowly accumulate as a mass of poor residents who are no longer protected as citizens by US law.
Would it make a difference? check out california, where illegal immigrants can enjoy the splendors of city services despite a lack of citizenship.
Pretty much citizenship gives you the right to vote; everything else is already being doled out in secondhand citizenship statii(status, plural). And its not even that big a deal; before Gore vs. Bush, voter turnout was at an all-time low (14%). That means 14% of the US population (288 million last I checked), felt the need (or desire) to vote, and most of those votes went to 1 of 2 parties, both of which suck ass.
Come on people. This entire debate regarding H1B's is completely xenophobic and unrealistic.
It isn't the H1B visa program thats the problem, its 2 severe stock fraud swindles, a terrorist attack and an industry wide collapse (VC bubble) that have caused this unemployment issue.
I might also add, that I have personally been unemployed for 1.3 years, I can attest to the fact it is not H1B's, its a shit market that is causing these problems. I've applied to positions that I was eminently over-qualified for, and no response. Companies are worried about folding, and so long as thats the case, NO-ONE is hiring.
Personally, I'm thinking of retraining. Then, when it recovers (somewhat)[and it will], I'll bring the expertise from this interim job to coding again. Like those wonderful programming positions in the financial markets that require 3-5 years experience coding trading systems :)
Paul