So how do you propose companies like Apple and Microsoft distinguish between cases where they should follow established industry standards and specs or deviate from them?
They pay attention when the organisations proposing the standards suspend work on them? Note that this happened with P3P in 2007.
"After a successful Last Call, the P3P Working Group decided to publish the P3P 1.1 Specification as a Working Group Note to give P3P 1.1 a provisionally final state.
The P3P Specification Working Group took this step as there was insufficient support from current Browser implementers for the implementation of P3P 1.1. The P3P 1.1 Working Group Note contains all changes from the P3P 1.1 Last Call. The Group thinks that P3P 1.1 is now ready for implementation. It is not excluded that W3C will push P3P 1.1 until Recommendation if there is sufficient support for implementation. "
odds are this was the othe way around and microsoft had "forgotten" to do somthing
Bingo.
Microsoft is just being opportunistic with some Google-bashing. In practice, Google is not complying with a vendor (Microsoft)-specific standard which many other sites also don't comply with.
When good browsers do apply that standard, the Google server response is human-readable text, including hyperlink, explaining why Google doesn't support the standard.
Google is the only holdout on Do Not Track. Every other major browser vendor has adopted.
Really?
Perhaps you should have Googled it before shooting your mouth off...
Google Releases “Do Not Track” Extension for Chrome
Google is announcing that they have released a “Do Not Track” extension for Chrome called Keep My Opt-Outs that blocks advertisements that are based on browser history. It hasn’t been made mandatory by any governments yet, but it’s been clear that ever since the Wall Street Journal’s series on how advertisers track user information on the web that this was going to happen.
Already the Chrome team has been testing an experimental feature that allows you to block all new third party cookies from being set. These pieces of information can travel with you and record information about your habits on the web. They are also useful for saving other information such as preferences and login information, but the marketing opportunities that can be taken advantage of with cookies is enough to make some people want to turn them off.
This extension solves that, as Google believes this is the correct way to ward of ad tracking.
Let's take this argument to it's realisic conclusion - Google Chrome password lockin. What easy access to you web site, you better stick to using Chrome or else look forward to pen and paper copying 20 random characters, including numbers, letters, capitalisation and special chars, with different passwords for each and every site you connect to
When can we see 16-bit per channel support (or better)?
For some industries, especially photography, 24-bit colour depths (8 bits per channel) are a real barrier to entry. Once again, it's GEGL to the rescue. Work on integrating GEGL into GIMP began after 2.4 was released, and will span across several stable releases. This work will be completed in GIMP 3.0, which will have full support for high bit depths.
WGA is banned too. I wonder what Microsoft will make of that...
(g) It is not in the public interest and it is a violation of the fundamental right to privacy for the state to use software that, in addition to its stated function, also transmits data to, or allows control and modification of its systems by, parties outside of the state’s control.
Your document is a good example of the problems proprietary formats can cause.
The reason your document's form fields do not work in Word is not because of issues with LibreOffice, it's a compatibility issue between Word's binary format (W95-2000.doc) and the newer.docx format. You would have the same problem using different versions of Word.
The check boxes used in your form have been deprecated in Word 2007's.docx, and are only accessible under the Developer tab of the Ribbon interface. To get it to work the way you expect, you'll need to save it as a.doc from LibreOffice, which will force Office 2007 to switch to the legacy mode.
kids are threatening to shiv each other over goddamn digital trinkets?
Why would that surprise you?
The *IAAs have persuaded your government to roll back hundreds of years of hard-won freedoms over equally ephemeral digital representations of sound and images.
I could go on but I think those are most of the highlights.
Yes, I already know they LOOK reasonably pretty, if a little bland. I'm more interested in what they do and how they do it.
As a phone, the one I used was often frustrating. After it had dropped a connection (working in a remote area), it sometimes wouldn't reconnect when I was back in range and had to be rebooted. It would often stay on 3G even when I was at home with full wifi. When I had just got it, and was trying to install apps, it would drop me out of the market every time. Just time-consuming irritations, but they all add up.
And as you say, I could go on. But if it works for you, great.
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So how do you propose companies like Apple and Microsoft distinguish between cases where they should follow established industry standards and specs or deviate from them?
They pay attention when the organisations proposing the standards suspend work on them? Note that this happened with P3P in 2007.
"After a successful Last Call, the P3P Working Group decided to publish the P3P 1.1 Specification as a Working Group Note to give P3P 1.1 a provisionally final state.
The P3P Specification Working Group took this step as there was insufficient support from current Browser implementers for the implementation of P3P 1.1. The P3P 1.1 Working Group Note contains all changes from the P3P 1.1 Last Call. The Group thinks that P3P 1.1 is now ready for implementation. It is not excluded that W3C will push P3P 1.1 until Recommendation if there is sufficient support for implementation. "
http://www.w3.org/P3P/
odds are this was the othe way around and microsoft had "forgotten" to do somthing
Bingo.
Microsoft is just being opportunistic with some Google-bashing. In practice, Google is not complying with a vendor (Microsoft)-specific standard which many other sites also don't comply with.
When good browsers do apply that standard, the Google server response is human-readable text, including hyperlink, explaining why Google doesn't support the standard.
Maybe somebody should write an app that lets the sender speak into the phone, and the receiver hear it immediately.
I was going to say my heliograph was completely non-polluting, then I remembered a few operator-powered methane emissions...
Google is the only holdout on Do Not Track. Every other major browser vendor has adopted.
Really?
Perhaps you should have Googled it before shooting your mouth off...
Google Releases “Do Not Track” Extension for Chrome
Google is announcing that they have released a “Do Not Track” extension for Chrome called Keep My Opt-Outs that blocks advertisements that are based on browser history. It hasn’t been made mandatory by any governments yet, but it’s been clear that ever since the Wall Street Journal’s series on how advertisers track user information on the web that this was going to happen.
Already the Chrome team has been testing an experimental feature that allows you to block all new third party cookies from being set. These pieces of information can travel with you and record information about your habits on the web. They are also useful for saving other information such as preferences and login information, but the marketing opportunities that can be taken advantage of with cookies is enough to make some people want to turn them off.
This extension solves that, as Google believes this is the correct way to ward of ad tracking.
http://www.thechromesource.com/google-releases-do-not-track-extension-for-chrome/
Let's take this argument to it's realisic conclusion - Google Chrome password lockin. What easy access to you web site, you better stick to using Chrome or else look forward to pen and paper copying 20 random characters, including numbers, letters, capitalisation and special chars, with different passwords for each and every site you connect to
Ctrl C
Ctrl V.
Do you like movies about Gladiators?
For crying out loud, the GIMP authors still refuse users the basic 16-bit per channel support !!
No they don't.
http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#16bit
When can we see 16-bit per channel support (or better)?
For some industries, especially photography, 24-bit colour depths (8 bits per channel) are a real barrier to entry. Once again, it's GEGL to the rescue. Work on integrating GEGL into GIMP began after 2.4 was released, and will span across several stable releases. This work will be completed in GIMP 3.0, which will have full support for high bit depths.
There's also the UFRaw plugin for 16 bit image processing. http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/
suddenly a lot of questions I have about emacs just fell into place.
Oh My God! You're right!
Seven modifiers. Seven Fingers. Lisp. It all fits.
Emacs is designed for aliens!
if they nail Apple we may be looking at iTab or iSlate or iMove or some such shit.
They can name it in honour of the legal team suing Samsung. The Apple sTab.
Sounds like a brilliant design.
In many ways, it's simply a logical next step - see Nvidia's white paper for architectural details. http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_90715.html
Thing is, we're so used to minimal innovation in the stagnant Wintel-controlled X86 world, the rapid pace of change in ARM systems is exciting. Imagine a beowulf cluster of them, for example...
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/the-opposite-of-virtualization-calexdas-new-quad-core-arm-part-for-cloud-servers.ars
Lack of a good debugging and testing environment is the only reason Javascript is goddamn annoying.
Eclipse/Aptana, Webstorm or Netbeans are all good IDEs that handle debugging either natively or with plugins.
Google libreoffice word round-trip best practices didn't turn up anything.
Hmmm I might start collecting some of my notes. Could be a business opportunity there.
Shouldn't all "public records" be made available free to all as easily as possible?
What records are being made public with WGA?
Those last two are a doozy if followed.
WGA is banned too. I wonder what Microsoft will make of that...
(g) It is not in the public interest and it is a violation of the fundamental right to privacy for the state to use software that, in addition to its stated function, also transmits data to, or allows control and modification of its systems by, parties outside of the state’s control.
Your document is a good example of the problems proprietary formats can cause.
The reason your document's form fields do not work in Word is not because of issues with LibreOffice, it's a compatibility issue between Word's binary format (W95-2000 .doc) and the newer .docx format. You would have the same problem using different versions of Word.
The check boxes used in your form have been deprecated in Word 2007's .docx, and are only accessible under the Developer tab of the Ribbon interface. To get it to work the way you expect, you'll need to save it as a .doc from LibreOffice, which will force Office 2007 to switch to the legacy mode.
You can create problems if you want to, but it's not difficult to do it cleanly either.
I'm just asking for an actual document. Surely that's a reasonable request, given the statement.
Can you provide examples?
once you jai - sorry, root the device.
Settings/Applications/Unknown Sources.
It's a toggle, so you can turn it back to block unknown sources after you've sideloaded whatever you wanted.
kids are threatening to shiv each other over goddamn digital trinkets?
Why would that surprise you?
The *IAAs have persuaded your government to roll back hundreds of years of hard-won freedoms over equally ephemeral digital representations of sound and images.
Huh? What do the MCSEs do then?
Length and diameter are entirely different things, as the actress said to the bishop.
I could go on but I think those are most of the highlights.
Yes, I already know they LOOK reasonably pretty, if a little bland. I'm more interested in what they do and how they do it.
As a phone, the one I used was often frustrating. After it had dropped a connection (working in a remote area), it sometimes wouldn't reconnect when I was back in range and had to be rebooted. It would often stay on 3G even when I was at home with full wifi. When I had just got it, and was trying to install apps, it would drop me out of the market every time. Just time-consuming irritations, but they all add up.
And as you say, I could go on. But if it works for you, great.
You can't really understand how interesting WP7 is until it's in your hands.
I've used one reasonably extensively and came to the opposite conclusion. Care to explain what you found interesting about it?