So you'd think, but according to Microsoft, the.doc format is the actual in-memory representation of a word document. They just deserialise from disk & it's loaded.
I'm guessing Office 2007 isn't vulnerable because it just reads the.doc format instead of using it internally (that it doesn't use the same markup internally is evident - Office 2007 messed up a few.doc documents I have lying around).
Isn't it more likely the sales patter for Office 2007 will become of course, if you were using our latest version...? Not that I'm suggesting Microsoft engineered it, mind... but it might not be as bad for them as seems initially
Finally, we're moving towards the star-trek age of technology. "Captain, the SAN is down" doesn't sound anywhere near as impressive as "Captain, the Quantum Vortex Core has crashed!"
Well yes, but 540 of those lines are stale. Why do we bother with interlaced formats nowadays? Progressive's nicer/more sensible/easier for us to work with in the cutting room!
It's a reference to the trouble Debian are having with Mozilla (shall we call it the IceWeasel debacle?) - Debian only includes Free[tm] packages and files in their distribution, the Firefox logo isn't Free. So Debian created their own logo for firefox, and use that instead. But Mozilla don't like that, and asked them to either use the firefox logo or stop calling it firefox
There's a greasemonkey script that does this (and it's incredibly useful!); http://downloads.mozdev.org/greasemonkey/linkify.u ser.js. Greasemonkey is an incredibly useful tool. You can make major modifications to pages with relatively simple javascript
when microsoft makes it secure people go nuts that its tooo secure and they complain
The problem is that Microsoft's record with security isn't great; lots of people (myself included) prefer to trust another company to provide anti-virus and firewall security under Windows. Microsoft will have to work very hard - in an equal arena -- to show that their AV and firewall solutions are as good or better as those of their competition
I wonder how long it will be before operating systems come with a "you're running low on disk space: want me to order a 250gb drive for you?"...or buy internet-based storage like on S3. While I doubt it'd have the best prices, I'm sure it'd be a big hit with normal users
You don't get all this wasted effort with open source... The time spent writing licensing enforcement can instead be spent improving the product, and similarly the time spent by third parties cracking these restrictions could also be spent improving the product itself.
Certainly not. In open source software I just get 10 different apps to control the bloody volume levels of my soundcard:P Not the same, but everybody wastes a load of effort somewhere, I guess
It's odd that people should say Google are widening the gap... Google's certainly the best, but lately I've been noticing a lot more search results that lead to pages that don't load, or result in 404s (in fact, a domain I used to run 3 years ago is still in Google's index).
Is google not removing ages from their index to try and seem impressive, or getting lax with recrawling sites? Or am I the only one noticing this?
Gears of War is being developed by Epic, the same people who make Unreal Engine 3 - so I'm guessing the licensing fee isn't a factor with them. I hear it's something like $50,000 per extra platform (plus a cut of the gross)... fairly steep. Although I'm sure the studio saves a gigantic amount of money having excellent quality code and tooling available from day 1
What's especially interesting is that this, the first game on the Unreal Engine 3 (an engine that supports OS X, Linux, Windows, Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3), is only available for the Xbox 360. I wonder how much that cost Microsoft!
Unfortunately the 2.66GHz Core 2 Quadro uses 167W while idle(as much as the Core 2 Extreme 2.93GHz at full load) and 260W at full load. With heat to match, of course... I think I might wait a wee while to upgrade my Core 2 Duo to a core 2 quadro, anyway!
Thank you for restoring my faith in geekdom! When I read the title I immediately thought of Apache Tomcat -- and I was shocked that a post about the web application container wasn't higher up on the page:-)
Magnetism? Hah, young whippersnappers! Back in my day we had to divine the result of a computation through the arrangement of tealeaves in a nearby cup
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So you'd think, but according to Microsoft, the .doc format is the actual in-memory representation of a word document. They just deserialise from disk & it's loaded. .doc format instead of using it internally (that it doesn't use the same markup internally is evident - Office 2007 messed up a few .doc documents I have lying around).
I'm guessing Office 2007 isn't vulnerable because it just reads the
Isn't it more likely the sales patter for Office 2007 will become of course, if you were using our latest version...?
Not that I'm suggesting Microsoft engineered it, mind... but it might not be as bad for them as seems initially
Good for him. Although he was insanely drunk. And the sony guy was being a bit of a git.
God of war's a fun game
Finally, we're moving towards the star-trek age of technology. "Captain, the SAN is down" doesn't sound anywhere near as impressive as "Captain, the Quantum Vortex Core has crashed!"
Boy, did the submitter get the wrong site ;-)
Sounds fun... pity it didn't really go into their architecture
It's a reference to the trouble Debian are having with Mozilla (shall we call it the IceWeasel debacle?) - Debian only includes Free[tm] packages and files in their distribution, the Firefox logo isn't Free. So Debian created their own logo for firefox, and use that instead. But Mozilla don't like that, and asked them to either use the firefox logo or stop calling it firefox
There's a greasemonkey script that does this (and it's incredibly useful!); http://downloads.mozdev.org/greasemonkey/linkify.u ser.js. Greasemonkey is an incredibly useful tool. You can make major modifications to pages with relatively simple javascript
An open source logo? :-) *duck* Au revoir, monsieur karma
The problem is that Microsoft's record with security isn't great; lots of people (myself included) prefer to trust another company to provide anti-virus and firewall security under Windows. Microsoft will have to work very hard - in an equal arena -- to show that their AV and firewall solutions are as good or better as those of their competition
I wonder how long it will be before operating systems come with a "you're running low on disk space: want me to order a 250gb drive for you?" ...or buy internet-based storage like on S3. While I doubt it'd have the best prices, I'm sure it'd be a big hit with normal users
Can I assume the mods havn't watched Team America? The parent is a funny!
Certainly not. In open source software I just get 10 different apps to control the bloody volume levels of my soundcard :P Not the same, but everybody wastes a load of effort somewhere, I guess
I know a guy who used to work on test suites at Microsoft who has since quit, given their awful attitude towards bugs in Vista, and got a Mac
It's odd that people should say Google are widening the gap... Google's certainly the best, but lately I've been noticing a lot more search results that lead to pages that don't load, or result in 404s (in fact, a domain I used to run 3 years ago is still in Google's index).
Is google not removing ages from their index to try and seem impressive, or getting lax with recrawling sites? Or am I the only one noticing this?
Gears of War is being developed by Epic, the same people who make Unreal Engine 3 - so I'm guessing the licensing fee isn't a factor with them. I hear it's something like $50,000 per extra platform (plus a cut of the gross)... fairly steep. Although I'm sure the studio saves a gigantic amount of money having excellent quality code and tooling available from day 1
What's especially interesting is that this, the first game on the Unreal Engine 3 (an engine that supports OS X, Linux, Windows, Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3), is only available for the Xbox 360. I wonder how much that cost Microsoft!
Well technically yes, but we have definitions preventing this from being the case: the internet isn't a big truck!
Unfortunately the 2.66GHz Core 2 Quadro uses 167W while idle(as much as the Core 2 Extreme 2.93GHz at full load) and 260W at full load. With heat to match, of course... I think I might wait a wee while to upgrade my Core 2 Duo to a core 2 quadro, anyway!
Thank you for restoring my faith in geekdom! When I read the title I immediately thought of Apache Tomcat -- and I was shocked that a post about the web application container wasn't higher up on the page :-)
Magnetism? Hah, young whippersnappers! Back in my day we had to divine the result of a computation through the arrangement of tealeaves in a nearby cup