I think this is more about boys and their (very expensive) toys. We never grow up, and admit it, if you were as rich as these guys, you would want to do something "cool":)
What difference does it make? You will still type "i++;", the editor will quietly save the xml exploded version of it for you.
Then, as an example of expansion, sometime when your documenting the code, you can put as much as needed inside xml sub-branches seen only with the correct filters - the comments may be targeted at a developer, or at an end user, or could be examples of usage, or related links.
You won't have more work, and by default, you won't ever see the raw xml, but with it, you can do whatever you need, and parse it out as required.
Another use of the filters would allow me to see the program YOU wrote in c with a Pascal or basic front end, i = i + 1. I could even choose to see the assembler, or Binary compiled view.
I agree totally, but its easier to try to change somebodies behaviour than it is to get a newbie to change their settings.
Some workplaces mandate certain features to be enabled and certain things in place, and people have their own way of dealing with things.
Teach them to be warey and distrustful of attachments and downloads, and within reason you can cut the number of incidents.
I am nervous to rely soley on technology to stop what is partly user problem (in the main anyway the stupid outlook bug is just a memory thank god). If you don't let a user know what his actions are doing, then when they get on an unprotected machine and mistreat it like their own, problems will occur.
I can't imagine anybody abusing something like that. After all, the trolls would never find a way to produce an audible version of goatse or, god forbid, tubgirl.
Please excuse me, I feel queezy just thinking about it.
Forgetting the obvious( in the field/exam room you may not have access to a full blown computer) I would say the biggest problem with using a PC instead of a calculator is distractions. Whenever I was doing assignments, the one thing I didn't want to be near was my computer. At least with just my paper, books and calculator, I know the current task at hand.
I wholeheartedly agree with you that its good to have a published format, but it doesn't need to be xml. As long as the format is documented, does it matter if its written in flat text, XML, binary, or encoded in the gender of a group of large hippos? I have no qualms with reading and writing to any kind of file, but the generic response of "does it save as xml" isn't relivant. Infact, XML can cause more problems than it solves, I remember even back in my amiga days there was a documented modular expandable BINARY format called IFF (Interchangable file format). It was used in all sorts of things, and exists to this day in a large number of files. This IMHO would be better for Apples' keynote data, since the majority of the file IS binary to begin with. Heck, you could still use xml sections within the IFF format.
Incidentally, won't you come across problems with sending folders, they don't seem as portable as an individual file. I have projects that live inside individual folders, and whilst its good to use locally, people you send things to have more trouble setting them up, how does the email program handle the attachments, what if they are compressed, what if theres a missing file? You end up needing a web archive, kind of like the way compressed html files are sent, and once you get to that point, you say what is the benefit of this xml I see before me?
I am a firm believer in using the right tool for the job, XML just isn't it in this instance.
Your friend may well be able to connect to 911 services when his house has electricity. I can connect to 911 with the power on, but as soon as the lights go out, so does my internet connection.
Your kind of right, but it wouldn't always be me that needs to call. Unless I start leaving up big "Emergency phone" notices, when needed, a person will pick up the dead phone and waste time trying to get through.
Until I can use my VOIP land line when theres a power cut, I will stay away tyvm.
Every use of XML is still "another format". Sure, you don't have to write a parser for it, but you gotta code up the relationships and links, and make sure one schemas "Textblock" is the same as yours, and what about those little parameters that you use that noone else does........ it goes on.
The only worrying part about moving to VOIP is losing the emergency services. Our broadband is quite stable, but quite often I have to reboot the STB, taking time away from my connection, I have had the box replaced numerous times, and am working from cleaned up installations (both win and linux). Also, what happens in a power outage/problem, usually the last remaining "life-line" is the phone, and was invaluable when the main fuse box lit up in my old house. So, all in all, no I won't be changing.
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Give the AC some slack. michael is obviously tired, and forgot to log into his account. Dupes can and do happen, some are excusable, since they are really old ones with alternative titles, others just fall under the net of after leaving the front page, but before google has picked them up (slash search sux!). The last kind (on the same front page) is just inexcusable;)
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He sold Paypal didn't he?
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I think this is more about boys and their (very expensive) toys.
We never grow up, and admit it, if you were as rich as these guys, you would want to do something "cool"
no, you would write "import com.blah.Foo;"
The editor would save it as exploded xml.
When I view it inside my editor, I would see #include "com.blah.foo.h";
or whatever the correct syntax is.
You could code exactly the same way you do currently, it just adds flexibility to the backend.
What difference does it make?
You will still type "i++;", the editor will quietly save the xml exploded version of it for you.
Then, as an example of expansion, sometime when your documenting the code, you can put as much as needed inside xml sub-branches seen only with the correct filters - the comments may be targeted at a developer, or at an end user, or could be examples of usage, or related links.
You won't have more work, and by default, you won't ever see the raw xml, but with it, you can do whatever you need, and parse it out as required.
Another use of the filters would allow me to see the program YOU wrote in c with a Pascal or basic front end, i = i + 1. I could even choose to see the assembler, or Binary compiled view.
It adds flexibility to the mix.
I agree totally, but its easier to try to change somebodies behaviour than it is to get a newbie to change their settings.
Some workplaces mandate certain features to be enabled and certain things in place, and people have their own way of dealing with things.
Teach them to be warey and distrustful of attachments and downloads, and within reason you can cut the number of incidents.
I am nervous to rely soley on technology to stop what is partly user problem (in the main anyway the stupid outlook bug is just a memory thank god).
If you don't let a user know what his actions are doing, then when they get on an unprotected machine and mistreat it like their own, problems will occur.
Being at home all day is sometimes more demanding than going out to work! :)
The real hard work is done at home with the children
(No, shes not sat over my shoulder whilst I type this)
Me: Wooooooohoooooooo onsite!
If I was in charge of this, I would install a Microsoft OS in it, just so I could make weekly visits to clean out the spyware and stuff.
IBM said something similar......
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.", Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM. (1943)
And of course, Bill and his 640kb (disputed).
Oh, and Taco and his dismissal of the iPod.
Anyway, people have undersold themselves the world over, and will continue to.
I'm sorry, but a LOT of people get viruses from their good friends - mainly because their good friends have your address to find.
Now, change your (otherwise very good) mantra to:
1. Don't open Unsocilicted emails from ANYONE, not even your mother.
check that they meant to send you something, and if your not expecting it, treat it as a virus.
Reports are coming in that this is the first in a barrage of retaliatory strikes by the Saturnian governing body.
In a statement, President Bleaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhian said "Puny humans, stay away from our planet".
300kbit -> 1mbit
:)
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750kbit -> 2mbit
1.5mbit -> 3mbit
They are asking for a one off fee of £25, but it definately looks rosey
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/03/ntl_q3_04
I don't think the Americans really care:m ail_block/
:)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/14/verizon_e
I'm going to follow up the other reply you got tonight and set something up
I can't imagine anybody abusing something like that.
After all, the trolls would never find a way to produce an audible version of goatse or, god forbid, tubgirl.
Please excuse me, I feel queezy just thinking about it.
many of these attacks are coming from infected home PCs which have succumbed to a worm or virus.
The only virus they have succumbed to is curiosity. 90% of DDOS problems start when these things hit the news.
Then its like watching a train wreck.
Sounds like they just ran the Windows RG flash thingy on it (is that even possible?)
Forgetting the obvious( in the field/exam room you may not have access to a full blown computer) I would say the biggest problem with using a PC instead of a calculator is distractions.
Whenever I was doing assignments, the one thing I didn't want to be near was my computer. At least with just my paper, books and calculator, I know the current task at hand.
Better. He liked the lightsaber duels and angst
Sounds more like Dawsons Creek than a sci-fi movie.
Can we tell George to do the same ;)
Its ok, its a Sunday.
Hang on, I work for E.A. - Shit! im in trouble now.
I wholeheartedly agree with you that its good to have a published format, but it doesn't need to be xml.
As long as the format is documented, does it matter if its written in flat text, XML, binary, or encoded in the gender of a group of large hippos?
I have no qualms with reading and writing to any kind of file, but the generic response of "does it save as xml" isn't relivant.
Infact, XML can cause more problems than it solves, I remember even back in my amiga days there was a documented modular expandable BINARY format called IFF (Interchangable file format). It was used in all sorts of things, and exists to this day in a large number of files. This IMHO would be better for Apples' keynote data, since the majority of the file IS binary to begin with. Heck, you could still use xml sections within the IFF format.
Incidentally, won't you come across problems with sending folders, they don't seem as portable as an individual file. I have projects that live inside individual folders, and whilst its good to use locally, people you send things to have more trouble setting them up, how does the email program handle the attachments, what if they are compressed, what if theres a missing file? You end up needing a web archive, kind of like the way compressed html files are sent, and once you get to that point, you say what is the benefit of this xml I see before me?
I am a firm believer in using the right tool for the job, XML just isn't it in this instance.
Your friend may well be able to connect to 911 services when his house has electricity.
I can connect to 911 with the power on, but as soon as the lights go out, so does my internet connection.
Same problem with cordless phones.
Your kind of right, but it wouldn't always be me that needs to call. Unless I start leaving up big "Emergency phone" notices, when needed, a person will pick up the dead phone and waste time trying to get through.
Until I can use my VOIP land line when theres a power cut, I will stay away tyvm.
I would rather tell somebody my address than sit there screaming into some piece of dead electronics while I burn to death.
Every use of XML is still "another format".
Sure, you don't have to write a parser for it, but you gotta code up the relationships and links, and make sure one schemas "Textblock" is the same as yours, and what about those little parameters that you use that noone else does........
it goes on.
xml is overrated.
The only worrying part about moving to VOIP is losing the emergency services.
Our broadband is quite stable, but quite often I have to reboot the STB, taking time away from my connection, I have had the box replaced numerous times, and am working from cleaned up installations (both win and linux).
Also, what happens in a power outage/problem, usually the last remaining "life-line" is the phone, and was invaluable when the main fuse box lit up in my old house.
So, all in all, no I won't be changing.
Give the AC some slack. ;)
michael is obviously tired, and forgot to log into his account.
Dupes can and do happen, some are excusable, since they are really old ones with alternative titles, others just fall under the net of after leaving the front page, but before google has picked them up (slash search sux!).
The last kind (on the same front page) is just inexcusable