Try hand-creating a MOOXML file with a text editor, then loading it into Office 2007. It's VERY easy to write documents which conform to the "standard" but aren't correctly parsed by Office 2007.
It doesn't look like a CAD program . It looks like a display program.
It's a CAD tool, and a fairly useful one. It even uses Ruby for an internal scripting language. I first bought it when it was being developed by @Last Software.
It's not quite a CAD package though it's origins are there. Sketchup was bought by Google a year or so back, and is now available either free or in a paid Pro version.
The free version is intended to be used to generate 3D content for Google Earth, but they've also started a component library, called 3D Warehouse, to load and sell 3D models developed by commercial providers.
Movie studios existed and made great films even before DVDs existed. Just because the studios LIKE the extra income they've been able to derive from post-cinema sales doesn't mean they need it.
the main issue relates to support for BluRay / HDDVD, and desktop computer based players will always be a small niche of those formats.
Right now, very few BluRay / HDDVD movies have DRM enabled. That's because most devices available don't support it. The more uncle Tom device and OS makers that cripple their players, the more incentive content providers have for crippling their content.
DRM has more to do with the content producer. By permitted more restrictive DRM, Vista is probably just enabling more content to be sold over the internet.
It takes two to tango.
If Vista didn't support DRM, content providers would have less incentive to produce damaged goods.
I post some litehearted humor and my reputation goes from "Positive" to "Bad" in one day.
You can't bash Microsoft products on Slashdot and get away with it.
In fact what you've built for yourself is a karma pump. Normal people mod you +1 funny, because your comment IS funny but you don't get mod points for that, just visibility. Microsoft reps then mod you "Redundant" or "Offtopic" to try hide your slur on their product, which costs you karma and knocks your score down. Real people then feed you a few more non-karma "+1 Funny"s and boost you back into the range of the MS mods.
Rinse, repeat and say bye-bye to your rep.
It's great evidence that MS marketing is gaming the system though. Who else would have a motivation for stifling a joke?
My bet is that they want use of ODF to be as painful and damn-well-useless as possible
This is though, it's not.
ODF shouldn't be a cause for excitement. It's a file format. It stores everything any sane person might want to store in an editable document format. The only differentiator between ODF and any other common document formats is that ODF is easy to parse and free for anyone to implement.
There are already good editors that use ODF too - Open Office for the open source crowd, and Lotus Symphony for those who want to play in the proprietary pool. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, but either will serve for 99% of document editing duties.
If a person has no qualifications, then they cannot know what is the basic reputable research and what is not.
What a load of garbage.
I know many people who I'd consider experts in their field yet have no formal qualifications. With fast progressing areas, in particular, qualifications fall by the wayside very rapidly.
In addition, most people gain significant experience and knowledge outside their own fields through interests and hobbies. They'd easily be competent to contribute.
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It can't.
Try hand-creating a MOOXML file with a text editor, then loading it into Office 2007. It's VERY easy to write documents which conform to the "standard" but aren't correctly parsed by Office 2007.
It's a "depricated" retort....
The answer's obvious then.
Nuke God.
You've got to admit, it'd solve a hell of a lot of problems.
But DAldredge IS an obvious MS shill. Look at her sig.
That's what VMs are for.
Yes, that's right, guys. Give it a shot.
Just one little shot.
The first one's even free....
I read it as "Beer Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks", and have been field testing ever since.
It IS faster from tubes than bottlenecks.
The internetsh work fine. I love youse guys...
It's a CAD tool, and a fairly useful one. It even uses Ruby for an internal scripting language. I first bought it when it was being developed by @Last Software.
What's the name of your program
It looks like Google trumps MS there.
It's not quite a CAD package though it's origins are there. Sketchup was bought by Google a year or so back, and is now available either free or in a paid Pro version.
The free version is intended to be used to generate 3D content for Google Earth, but they've also started a component library, called 3D Warehouse, to load and sell 3D models developed by commercial providers.
Movie studios existed and made great films even before DVDs existed. Just because the studios LIKE the extra income they've been able to derive from post-cinema sales doesn't mean they need it.
Right now, very few BluRay / HDDVD movies have DRM enabled. That's because most devices available don't support it. The more uncle Tom device and OS makers that cripple their players, the more incentive content providers have for crippling their content.
It takes two to tango.
If Vista didn't support DRM, content providers would have less incentive to produce damaged goods.
It does nothing better than the product it replaces, and many things considerably worse.
You're doing it wrong. The 8710w is a Novell certified machine.
So does the person you're responding to.
Wow. Just wow.
Did you try to squeeze the LiveCD into the floppy drive?
Out there in the real world, we call those "biggots" customers.
Fixed that for you.
You can't bash Microsoft products on Slashdot and get away with it.
In fact what you've built for yourself is a karma pump. Normal people mod you +1 funny, because your comment IS funny but you don't get mod points for that, just visibility. Microsoft reps then mod you "Redundant" or "Offtopic" to try hide your slur on their product, which costs you karma and knocks your score down. Real people then feed you a few more non-karma "+1 Funny"s and boost you back into the range of the MS mods.
Rinse, repeat and say bye-bye to your rep.
It's great evidence that MS marketing is gaming the system though. Who else would have a motivation for stifling a joke?
This is though, it's not.
ODF shouldn't be a cause for excitement. It's a file format. It stores everything any sane person might want to store in an editable document format. The only differentiator between ODF and any other common document formats is that ODF is easy to parse and free for anyone to implement.
There are already good editors that use ODF too - Open Office for the open source crowd, and Lotus Symphony for those who want to play in the proprietary pool. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, but either will serve for 99% of document editing duties.
No, people are saying the same thing on Reddit, Digg and just about every other tech forum too.
Microsoft did it to Netscape.
Close.
They pinched the ability to use machine codes from versions of Basic developed by DEC.
What a load of garbage.
I know many people who I'd consider experts in their field yet have no formal qualifications. With fast progressing areas, in particular, qualifications fall by the wayside very rapidly.
In addition, most people gain significant experience and knowledge outside their own fields through interests and hobbies. They'd easily be competent to contribute.