MS also has released documentation for the RTF specification. However, if you look at this in detail you will soon release that they have only released enough information make it appear open. Many tags are given such brief descriptions without any examples that you cannot hope to guess what their purpose is. So, my question is this documation of the Office formats like the RTF specification (i.e. worthless) or is it a complete specification with every tag explained 100% with examples (i.e. like the HTML specification)
Too true.
And what really accelerated the USSRs Nuclear arms program was the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America not only showed that they had the bomb but also demonstated their willingness to use it.(Race For The Super-Bomb)
For me the point is that it's possible to carry it onto a plane and much less expensive than the equivalent laptop. If you want to install many HDs and cards, then obviously you will want a regular size PC.
Windows media player (which is part of WinXP) collects data about what you are listening to and sends it to a MS server.
And we don't know what other things are going on under the hood.
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I upgraded from WinNT to WinXP and now the file system crawls. Where before to open a folder was instantanous, now it takes several seconds. I tried every tweak and trick that I could find on the internet, but none of them make any difference. I think it's simply Windows XP has a performace problem with SCSI drives. So, now we get a new even slower file system, probabaly switched on by default.
You said it. We don't know what weapons America already has in space, because this information would be classified. I wouldn't be surpised that they have thought about this threat a long time ago and they already have a defence plan for their GPS & spy satellites and also they probably have something to take out enemy spy satellites.
I presume that they would mainly be interested in knocking out the spy satellites that *are* overhead, because obviously they will be the ones that are spying on you.
"Although Apple has provided operating system-level support for Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu and other right to left languages since the release of Mac OS X 10.2 last year"
It doesn't say much about Apple if they only started Hebrew one year ago.
I do remember reading about right to left support available in Windows a long time before this. Was it even in Windows NT? I don't remeber.
"Consider a future where Microsoft has succeeded in migrating most Windows development to the.NET framework." Unfortunately there are too many people who have been screwed once by MS, but still come back for more. Look at the history of development tools that MS release, develop up to a point, then abandon. First MFC: they did a great job with version VC 4.2, but then stopped making any more improvements - but still released further versions (VC 5.0 and VC 6.0 ), because they knew all the idiots would upgrade matter what they do. Now they have abandoned all new MFC development. Theyre excuse was because it was aging and it's time had come. You know STL is around longer than MFC and it's still being improved. Then have a look at VB: VB4 was good. VB5 more improvements. VB6 a joke! VB6 has no new features and doesnt even have the bugs that were in VB5 fixed. So now everyone jumps on the.NET wagon. Of course, this will be different this time. MS won't get bored with this technology a few years down the line and developers will never have to worry about there skills going out of date, because you can trust good old MS. Suckers!
Before the usual Palestinian - Isreali flame war gets going, I would like to ask just one question: Does anyone use Earthstation and how does it compare to the other p2p networks?
Maybe, we will soon see the terminology appear in the classifieds:
2 bedroom semi-detached asteroid size house $200,000, commuting distance from London (only 10,000 miles up)
When the origional Earthstation slashdot story came out, it ws claimed that this software had more movies and software than any other p2p system and was more secure. I posted what was one of the few on topic posts, and asked if anyone had actually used this program and if it was any good. Some kind slashdotter responded that it was very buggy and already installed many viruses on his PC and on that note I gave it a wide berth. Meanwhile everyone else in the discussion was totally engrossed in the Isreali - Palestinian flamewar and seemingly forgot what the origonal story was about. The moral of this all is: Well, stay on topic and you might learn something, but then again, fuck it, a good flamewar is always fun too!
Is it true that Microsoft is trying to shut this site down?
Microsoft has taken no legal action against MSfreePC.com. They have, however, sent a letter to our Chairman of the Board "objecting" to the site. Because MSfreePC.com makes filing legitimate claims very easy and thereby encourages many people to file claims that may not have otherwise, it's not surprising that Microsoft sent us this letter. Since Microsoft keeps a portion of the unclaimed funds, the fewer people that file claims, the more money they get back. (Click here to read their letter to our Chairman and our response back to their Chairman, Bill Gates.) The MSfreePC Program is in complete compliance with both the letter and spirit of the settlement and we will continue to leave the site up, offering products to qualifying consumers at no out-of-pocket cost to them. We will fully honor all of the terms of the MSfreePC.com web site and will not be asking you for money or taking back product that has been made available to qualifying consumers, even if we do not receive payment from the Settlement Administrator. In other words, even if Microsoft attempts to harm the MSfreePC Program, WE will make sure you, the consumer, are not injured by their actions. We will live up to all commitments made at MSfreePC.com, even if Microsoft fights the site and tries to see that the Settlement Administrator doesn't pay your claim to cover your purchase.
But whats best about the changes MS made to Windows XP is the multi-threaded boot process
It's the *only* thing good about Windows XP. I see no other _useful_ features that weren't in Windows 2000... and if you are unfortunate enough to be running a SCSI disk under WinXP, the file system crawl, making that speed gain on the boot-up time largely redundant.
4 major blackouts in the space of a couple of weeks? There was a rumour going around - strenously denied by the authorities of course - that the US backout was indirectly due to the recient spate of Windows worms/viruses. This would explain why it's happened to so many countries at the same time. All these utilties use Windows PCs extensively.
I know the RTGs are encased in iridium alloy, and that gives them a high chance of surviving a crash, but the forces of a launch explosion and a free fall impact are huge. I would doubt that it is possible to make anything 100% guaranteed to survive intact, no matter how much armour you put around it. Heres that link: http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ianus /npsm3. htm
And no serious accidents have happened with RTG's at least, not on American craft.
This isn't mean they're safe... we got away with it the last time, doesn't mean we'll necessarily get away with it the next time.
Remember the Galileo probe (which contained 78 pound of plutonium) was due to go up on next the Shuttle right after the Challanger that blew up.
The US Navy SNAP-9A satellite burned up in the atmosphere in 1964 and deposited more Plutonium 238 on the earth surface, than the entire amount given off by all nuclear arms atmospheric testing, nuclear reprocessing plants and the Chernobyl accident combined.
none of the US probes ever sent to the moon used plutonium either.
5 Apollo missions used plutonium in RTGs.
In fact, only the USSR has ever placed radioactive material into an earth orbit
The US Navy has sent 11 nuclear satellites into orbit so far.
7 remain in orbit, two burned up in orbit releasing the plutonium, and two reentered with RTG intact, although a lot of the information is classified, so we don't know for sure.
You are right though the USSR have put an enormous quantity of nuclear waste into orbit, a lot more than the US.
The US has only ever used plutonium for deep space missions that go beyond Martian orbit, Voyagers I&II, Galileo, and Cassini are some examples
Don't forget the Viking missions had RTGs
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Yes, absolutely, why waste time learning a framework, when when you can write the entire thing in machine code from the ground up.
MS also has released documentation for the RTF specification. However, if you look at this in detail you will soon release that they have only released enough information make it appear open. Many tags are given such brief descriptions without any examples that you cannot hope to guess what their purpose is.
So, my question is this documation of the Office formats like the RTF specification (i.e. worthless) or is it a complete specification with every tag explained 100% with examples (i.e. like the HTML specification)
How about a device that automatically circumvates the compulsory online registartion of any newspaper?
Too true. And what really accelerated the USSRs Nuclear arms program was the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America not only showed that they had the bomb but also demonstated their willingness to use it.(Race For The Super-Bomb)
For me the point is that it's possible to carry it onto a plane and much less expensive than the equivalent laptop.
If you want to install many HDs and cards, then obviously you will want a regular size PC.
"I interviewed at Microsoft last week." ;)
Obviously, you learnt from the mistake that blogger made by posting Anonymously
Windows media player (which is part of WinXP) collects data about what you are listening to and sends it to a MS server. And we don't know what other things are going on under the hood.
I upgraded from WinNT to WinXP and now the file system crawls. Where before to open a folder was instantanous, now it takes several seconds. I tried every tweak and trick that I could find on the internet, but none of them make any difference. I think it's simply Windows XP has a performace problem with SCSI drives.
So, now we get a new even slower file system, probabaly switched on by default.
You said it.
We don't know what weapons America already has in space, because this information would be classified. I wouldn't be surpised that they have thought about this threat a long time ago and they already have a defence plan for their GPS & spy satellites and also they probably have something to take out enemy spy satellites.
I presume that they would mainly be interested in knocking out the spy satellites that *are* overhead, because obviously they will be the ones that are spying on you.
"Although Apple has provided operating system-level support for Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu and other right to left languages since the release of Mac OS X 10.2 last year" It doesn't say much about Apple if they only started Hebrew one year ago. I do remember reading about right to left support available in Windows a long time before this. Was it even in Windows NT? I don't remeber.
"Consider a future where Microsoft has succeeded in migrating most Windows development to the .NET framework." .NET wagon. Of course, this will be different this time. MS won't get bored with this technology a few years down the line and developers will never have to worry about there skills going out of date, because you can trust good old MS.
Unfortunately there are too many people who have been screwed once by MS, but still come back for more.
Look at the history of development tools that MS release, develop up to a point, then abandon.
First MFC: they did a great job with version VC 4.2, but then stopped making any more improvements - but still released further versions (VC 5.0 and VC 6.0 ), because they knew all the idiots would upgrade matter what they do. Now they have abandoned all new MFC development. Theyre excuse was because it was aging and it's time had come. You know STL is around longer than MFC and it's still being improved.
Then have a look at VB: VB4 was good. VB5 more improvements. VB6 a joke! VB6 has no new features and doesnt even have the bugs that were in VB5 fixed.
So now everyone jumps on the
Suckers!
Before the usual Palestinian - Isreali flame war gets going, I would like to ask just one question:
Does anyone use Earthstation and how does it compare to the other p2p networks?
Maybe, we will soon see the terminology appear in the classifieds: 2 bedroom semi-detached asteroid size house $200,000, commuting distance from London (only 10,000 miles up)
When the origional Earthstation slashdot story came out, it ws claimed that this software had more movies and software than any other p2p system and was more secure.
I posted what was one of the few on topic posts, and asked if anyone had actually used this program and if it was any good.
Some kind slashdotter responded that it was very buggy and already installed many viruses on his PC and on that note I gave it a wide berth.
Meanwhile everyone else in the discussion was totally engrossed in the Isreali - Palestinian flamewar and seemingly forgot what the origonal story was about.
The moral of this all is:
Well, stay on topic and you might learn something, but then again, fuck it, a good flamewar is always fun too!
we have geneticaly bread sheep with handlebars.
How does it compare with the other free offerings out there, RagTime Solo and AbiWord?
Personally I prefer:
> Is a bear Catholic?
> Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Is it true that Microsoft is trying to shut this site down?
Microsoft has taken no legal action against MSfreePC.com. They have, however, sent a letter to our Chairman of the Board "objecting" to the site. Because MSfreePC.com makes filing legitimate claims very easy and thereby encourages many people to file claims that may not have otherwise, it's not surprising that Microsoft sent us this letter. Since Microsoft keeps a portion of the unclaimed funds, the fewer people that file claims, the more money they get back. (Click here to read their letter to our Chairman and our response back to their Chairman, Bill Gates.) The MSfreePC Program is in complete compliance with both the letter and spirit of the settlement and we will continue to leave the site up, offering products to qualifying consumers at no out-of-pocket cost to them. We will fully honor all of the terms of the MSfreePC.com web site and will not be asking you for money or taking back product that has been made available to qualifying consumers, even if we do not receive payment from the Settlement Administrator. In other words, even if Microsoft attempts to harm the MSfreePC Program, WE will make sure you, the consumer, are not injured by their actions. We will live up to all commitments made at MSfreePC.com, even if Microsoft fights the site and tries to see that the Settlement Administrator doesn't pay your claim to cover your purchase.
It's the *only* thing good about Windows XP. I see no other _useful_ features that weren't in Windows 2000... and if you are unfortunate enough to be running a SCSI disk under WinXP, the file system crawl, making that speed gain on the boot-up time largely redundant.
Creative don't do Linux, however you can get the Zen to work, thanks to these guys...
http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/
4 major blackouts in the space of a couple of weeks?
There was a rumour going around - strenously denied by the authorities of course - that the US backout was indirectly due to the recient spate of Windows worms/viruses. This would explain why it's happened to so many countries at the same time. All these utilties use Windows PCs extensively.
I know the RTGs are encased in iridium alloy, and that gives them a high chance of surviving a crash, but the forces of a launch explosion and a free fall impact are huge. I would doubt that it is possible to make anything 100% guaranteed to survive intact, no matter how much armour you put around it.s /npsm3. htm
Heres that link:
http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ianu
This isn't mean they're safe... we got away with it the last time, doesn't mean we'll necessarily get away with it the next time.
Remember the Galileo probe (which contained 78 pound of plutonium) was due to go up on next the Shuttle right after the Challanger that blew up.
The US Navy SNAP-9A satellite burned up in the atmosphere in 1964 and deposited more Plutonium 238 on the earth surface, than the entire amount given off by all nuclear arms atmospheric testing, nuclear reprocessing plants and the Chernobyl accident combined.
It only had 4.5 pounds of plutonium in its RTG.
In fact, only the USSR has ever placed radioactive material into an earth orbit The US Navy has sent 11 nuclear satellites into orbit so far. 7 remain in orbit, two burned up in orbit releasing the plutonium, and two reentered with RTG intact, although a lot of the information is classified, so we don't know for sure.
You are right though the USSR have put an enormous quantity of nuclear waste into orbit, a lot more than the US.
The US has only ever used plutonium for deep space missions that go beyond Martian orbit, Voyagers I&II, Galileo, and Cassini are some examples Don't forget the Viking missions had RTGs
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If the Europeans wanted to send a probe into deep space, they would do the exact same thing the Americans have done and use Plutonium.
Maybe they're just happy enough to restrict theirselves to what can be explored safely