Much of the information is stored in binary and enclosed in xml tags. This information is not straightforward to be written
Why use a non-standard format when there is already a ISO-standarized one
There are already many applications already preparated for reading/writing ODF documents that are already working on a multi-platform basis. Whilst there is only one version of a program (produced by a single company for only two plataforms). Many users did not upgrade yet (and they SHOULD PAY FOR THIS). So that should be a load of money (for MS) which makes no-sense
the Massachussets goverment should also pay a lot of licences for that software.
So, please give us a single reason for doing such a silly thing
So, let me clarify your points:
OK, here's one - transactional NTFS.
Welcome to the 70's!!!
- New network stack with IPv6 in the core
Uauuuuuuuu!!! How many lines of code? 1000?
- New GUI / window manager in user-space (better stability / new eyecandy)
As in more resources wasted? And need for hardware update???
- Priority based I/O handling (virus scanner won't slow down your system because it's hitting the disk)
Why should you run a virus scanner at all? Ah!!! you are meaning Vista will be still unsecure!!! I got it!
- User Account Control (not running as Administrator by default anymore)
A change in a default setting that will blow up zillions of apps bad designed that need Admin permisions?
And what is this? Need to update for something that took them 30 minutes for changing a chack box? 5 years to realize this? Uau!!!
- New user-space audio subsystem (better stability, program-level volume control, AC3 decoding, etc.)
Welcome to the nineties!
- New speech recognition / synthesis engines
Already existing. nobody uses them
- New SMB protocol (better performance)
Screw up these Samba folks! and tell them the crap about better performance. Oops! that was your point
- Full disk encryption (BitLocker)
Screw up these dual-boooting folks! and tell them the crap about more security.
- Built in search
Uau! a search box in every window! 5 years to do that!
- Built in antispyware
What is spyware?
- Faster installation
Installation is (repeat after me) NEVER DONE BY AVERAGE USERS. But nevertheless, it will take now a decent time? great!!! Ahhh! but you are meaning that continuous re-installs must have to be done!!! Well, in that case....
- New bootloader
Useless, as all the bootloaders from MS.
- Deadlock detection
Welcome to the 20th century.
These reasons are awesome. I am impressed!!!
What a piece of sofware.
The article has two geographic errors: first, it was found in Rio Negro province, not Neuquén.
Also, the article is misleading when saying "found in Central Argentina" Neuquén and Río Negro are provinces in Patagonia, which is South enough to be considered Southern Argentina.
But it has been already answered: The open standard is not a fixed one, but something consensuated. It is very easy to add this to the standard -if needed- and you do not loose the openess.
Let's put down some ground rules: This experiment will test a real spam filter, not a specially designed chess program. It won't aim to beat Deep Thought (I wouldn't know where to start, and I have a feeling this could be difficult anyway;-), but it will aim to show signs of "intelligence", or we won't claim success. Finally, since dry tables and graphs are no fun, a theoretical proof of concept is not enough: the spam filter must really play chess in a way that everyone can see, and try out at home.
In fact, the Word document format hasn't changed since Word 97. So any Word version from 1997 or onwards will do the job.
And changing the settings to saving in RTF format by default (enabling Word versions from Word 6.0 through 2003, as well as basically all other word processors, to read the documents) isn't all that hard. Not even in a corporate setting.
What? do you think your brand-new Office XP will flawlessly read your 10 years-old Word 2.0.doc file???
just googling a little bit shows that you are not right
Not to mention.doc changes between different archs (MAC, X86...)
So...
Microsofts encourages upgrading of Office installations through a lot of questionable means, but the Word document format isn't one of them.
I think you do not understand completely the point of the article...
The point is that, given the fact that there is a vast amount of information in computer files, you must be aware that if you can't retreive that information in the future, it will be lost.
You are right, most of the software gets updated. But it is the interface that understands the format the thing that must last for much more time than a couple of software-updates-cycles
This is exactly another reason to consider OS standards instead of closed-source formats, as MS in 100 years (if it does still exist) will have forgotten how.doc in windows 2000 looked like
Are you saying that because the Linux desktop can now do email+web in a semi-decent manner (thanks to Moz) we should accept a _drop_ in usability and go to an inferior desktop? What happens when I want to make my digital video camera work? What happens when I want my MP3 player to work? And please don't point me to half-assed SF.net projects, give me something a typical history major could use.
inferior desktop??? ... come on! Perhaps there are defficiencies in Linux desktop, but happens that ALL defficiencies you pointed out are already solved in most distros:
digital camer aconnecting is already done by KDE out-of-the-box and I remember also working in GNOME. WHITHOUT A FUSS (if it is USB, but is all what your point is about because serial interfaces will not work if you don't have admin access to intall drivers
mp3 always work out-of-the box at least in Suse, I know patent-related-stuff in RedHat and others, but the rpm's are already there, at your fingertips
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The Nokia Tablets (here, a happy N800 owner) ship with Flash 9, which works quite fine. And it has Linux... And it has an ARM (armel) architecture.
Then you use the same disk over and over and over again :)
On exactly that computer. Linux distros (even being live-CD's) will work in a wide variety of hardware, your magic whateverLite, will not.
Wrong moderation, sorry
None of them is as easy to install as in Linux, which was his point...
- Much of the information is stored in binary and enclosed in xml tags. This information is not straightforward to be written
- Why use a non-standard format when there is already a ISO-standarized one
- There are already many applications already preparated for reading/writing ODF documents that are already working on a multi-platform basis. Whilst there is only one version of a program (produced by a single company for only two plataforms). Many users did not upgrade yet (and they SHOULD PAY FOR THIS). So that should be a load of money (for MS) which makes no-sense
- the Massachussets goverment should also pay a lot of licences for that software.
So, please give us a single reason for doing such a silly thingSo, let me clarify your points: OK, here's one - transactional NTFS.
Welcome to the 70's!!!
- New network stack with IPv6 in the core
Uauuuuuuuu!!! How many lines of code? 1000?
- New GUI / window manager in user-space (better stability / new eyecandy)
As in more resources wasted? And need for hardware update???
- Priority based I/O handling (virus scanner won't slow down your system because it's hitting the disk)
Why should you run a virus scanner at all? Ah!!! you are meaning Vista will be still unsecure!!! I got it!
- User Account Control (not running as Administrator by default anymore) A change in a default setting that will blow up zillions of apps bad designed that need Admin permisions?
And what is this? Need to update for something that took them 30 minutes for changing a chack box? 5 years to realize this? Uau!!! - New user-space audio subsystem (better stability, program-level volume control, AC3 decoding, etc.)
Welcome to the nineties!
- New speech recognition / synthesis engines
Already existing. nobody uses them
- New SMB protocol (better performance)
Screw up these Samba folks! and tell them the crap about better performance. Oops! that was your point
- Full disk encryption (BitLocker)
Screw up these dual-boooting folks! and tell them the crap about more security.
- Built in search
Uau! a search box in every window! 5 years to do that!
- Built in antispyware
What is spyware?
- Faster installation
Installation is (repeat after me) NEVER DONE BY AVERAGE USERS. But nevertheless, it will take now a decent time? great!!! Ahhh! but you are meaning that continuous re-installs must have to be done!!! Well, in that case....
- New bootloader
Useless, as all the bootloaders from MS.
- Deadlock detection
Welcome to the 20th century.
These reasons are awesome. I am impressed!!!
What a piece of sofware.
This was a far better (and open source) applecation of Bayesian filters
The article has two geographic errors: first, it was found in Rio Negro province, not Neuquén.
Also, the article is misleading when saying "found in Central Argentina" Neuquén and Río Negro are provinces in Patagonia, which is South enough to be considered Southern Argentina.
Well, it was funny indeed. The mistake is due to the fact that there is a verb: "consensuar" in Spanish. I meant to create by consensus.
But it has been already answered: The open standard is not a fixed one, but something consensuated. It is very easy to add this to the standard -if needed- and you do not loose the openess.
This is even without considering the R.E.V.O.L.U.R.I.O.N.A.R.Y theme for the buttons ripped^H^H^H^H^H^H inspired on KDE Crystal theme...
e w=2&id=8341&file1=8341-1.jpg&file2=8341-2.jpg&file 3=8341-3.jpg&name=Crystal+SVG&PHPSESSID=b09161c27e 4dc69f957fca2b9ef44a81
= 213
Take a close look to the back and forward arrows in Longhorn, that are EXACTLY the same as the KDE Crystal (take a look on the comparison)
KDE Crystal SVG look :
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?previ
Also the replicant Plastikfox for firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?id
and finally, the Longhorn long awaited innovative arrows:
http://www.jcxp.net/lh_5203_shots/shots/lh11.jpg
Will MS release their skin under some OS license???
Well, if you'd RTFA
http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70
It has a Creative Commons License, so if you change it you have to publish your modyfied version as well
Just in the very first page of TFA http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess-1.html is the answer to your question (for short, the answer is No:
;-), but it will aim to show signs of "intelligence", or we won't claim success. Finally, since dry tables and graphs are no fun, a theoretical proof of concept is not enough: the spam filter must really play chess in a way that everyone can see, and try out at home.
Let's put down some ground rules: This experiment will test a real spam filter, not a specially designed chess program. It won't aim to beat Deep Thought (I wouldn't know where to start, and I have a feeling this could be difficult anyway
I don't know if someone saw this before, but the back and forward arrows in Longhorn are EXACTLY the same than the KDE Crystal (take a look on the comparison)e w=2&id=8341&file1=8341-1.jpg&file2=8341-2.jpg&file 3=8341-3.jpg&name=Crystal+SVG&PHPSESSID=b09161c27e 4dc69f957fca2b9ef44a81
= 213
KDE Crystal SVG look : http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?previ
(Also the replicant Plastikfox for firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?id
Longhorn long awaited innovative arrows: http://www.jcxp.net/lh_5203_shots/shots/lh11.jpg
Will MS release their skin under the GPL???
suddenly, you may be in troubles...
No, you fool. He said it would read your Word 97 documents. RTFPost before you comment on it.
But the, again... what makes you think that you'll can (I mean MS will let you) read your documents in 20 years from now on?
yes lots of extensions but i still miss one - google toolbar
This should be enough, then...
In fact, the Word document format hasn't changed since Word 97. So any Word version from 1997 or onwards will do the job.
.doc file???
.doc changes between different archs (MAC, X86...)
And changing the settings to saving in RTF format by default (enabling Word versions from Word 6.0 through 2003, as well as basically all other word processors, to read the documents) isn't all that hard. Not even in a corporate setting.
What? do you think your brand-new Office XP will flawlessly read your 10 years-old Word 2.0
just googling a little bit shows that you are not right
Not to mention
So...
Microsofts encourages upgrading of Office installations through a lot of questionable means, but the Word document format isn't one of them.
It IS another of them
I think you do not understand completely the point of the article...
.doc in windows 2000 looked like
The point is that, given the fact that there is a vast amount of information in computer files, you must be aware that if you can't retreive that information in the future, it will be lost.
You are right, most of the software gets updated. But it is the interface that understands the format the thing that must last for much more time than a couple of software-updates-cycles
This is exactly another reason to consider OS standards instead of closed-source formats, as MS in 100 years (if it does still exist) will have forgotten how
In both, mozilla and firefox, if you type
about:config
you can get the middle-button-click also open a new tab. Without a plugin.
(I know, someone will say it is obscure, but...)
Are you saying that because the Linux desktop can now do email+web in a semi-decent manner (thanks to Moz) we should accept a _drop_ in usability and go to an inferior desktop? What happens when I want to make my digital video camera work? What happens when I want my MP3 player to work? And please don't point me to half-assed SF.net projects, give me something a typical history major could use.
... come on! Perhaps there are defficiencies in Linux desktop, but happens that ALL defficiencies you pointed out are already solved in most distros:
inferior desktop???
digital camer aconnecting is already done by KDE out-of-the-box and I remember also working in GNOME. WHITHOUT A FUSS (if it is USB, but is all what your point is about because serial interfaces will not work if you don't have admin access to intall drivers
mp3 always work out-of-the box at least in Suse, I know patent-related-stuff in RedHat and others, but the rpm's are already there, at your fingertips