>RSS has 11 different varieties, 9 if you exclude the two attempts at an "RSS 3". Atom has a single variety.
If you count Atom 0.3 and Atom 1.0 a "single variety", then yes.
>RSS 1.0 has a way to include HTML in the feed. RSS 2.0 doesn't. Atom does, and also supports XHTML
RSS 2.0 can include HTML in feeds just fine. That's how the Metaweblog API are implemented, btw.
>RSS 1.0 is extensible in a standard way via namespaces. RSS 2.0 is extended via ad-hoc additions. Atom is extensible via namespaces.
RSS 2.0 is perfectly extensible via namespaces, like iTunes did. As an aside, that's the only way RSS can be extended, short of completely ignoring the spec.
>Atom is more complicated than RSS 1.0, which is more complicated than RSS 2.0.
For you, maybe. All of them are fairly simple to implement for any programmer that doesn't flip burgers during his workday.
But hey, four sentences, four mistakes. You almost beat the original topic in wrongness!
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My understanding, with dealing with various MS employees, is that they're not allowed to see ANY source code if it doesn't have a license attached. If I show some code to a MS person and that code, by purpose or not, ends up in a MS product, I could sue the company.
Not wanting to take that risk, MS asks its employees to avoid looking at "unprotected" source.
Of course, let's not look at the fact that, to have an Hotmail account, you've already created a Passport ID. Yeah, never let facts go in the way of some sane old FUD.
So you bought hundreds of Compaq servers with Microsoft software already installed and then wiped it out?
I can't see how this is bad for Microsoft, they got your money.
I can see how it's incredibly stupid of you, however, how much did those server licenses cost? Did the CFO approved such an idiotic purchase? So you can run free software (regardless of its merits, it seems)?
After your purchase, market share for Microsoft servers went up by hundreds of units (because they actually made money out of it)...
Well go on. Nobody is stopping you and we'll all cheer from the sidelines. But don't send me betas, I'd like the 1.0 (1.1 would be even better) version.
On a 4mt-class telescope, it takes 1024 small transputers and one PC running Windows and IDL. It's more than enough, all the work is done by the transputers (FFT , etc...) and the PC has just to coordinate the workload.
Anyways, I assume you're not familiar with that episode, so let me recall it to you:
First Apple announce their export-restricted supercomputer to be available in 350/400/500 Mhz speed steppings. Online ordering is available immediately.
Lots of people order a G4/500 at a certain price (I don't remember exactly, let's say $4,000)
After a while, Mr. Jobs receives a note from Motorola saying that they cannot deliver enough 500Mhz CPUs to satisfy Apple's orders (Moto had bad yealds, but that's another story)
Mr. Jobs proudly announces that G4 will be stepped down by 50Mhz (300/350/450) and the orders placed will be delivered.
The interesting thing is that Jobs mantained the same price steps (so, if you ordered a 500Mhz for $4,000, you'll receive a 450Mhz for $4,000)
This friendly announcement caused quite a stir among the Mac community, so much that Jobs had to retreat and offer discounts for the Mhz downgrade.
Technically, this isn't recalling goods already in the marketplace, but it's something quite close. It's called "try to fool the customers and if they're gullible enough, run with the money"
....at least Sony is recalling some of the defective stuff. Some companies enjoy selling defective products, then making you buy them all over again for a less defective version. Any come to mind?
Yup. Apple. (See the G4/500 then 450 then 500 fiasco...)
Gibson wrote FSP along with Tom Maddox (the same couple who did last year's AI episode). Anyways, Gibson's writing is quite tired since a couple of years...
The fact that this is an ITALIAN company, selling their product in the ITALIAN market, where you can buy their CE phone in the ITALIAN stores is beside the point, right?
Microsoft, being the largest capitalized corporation in the world is clearly in that category.
Uh... I think there are bigger companies in the US, not mentioning the rest of the world. The name IBM or Bayer just comes to mind...
Microsoft is the biggest software company, but that doesn't make them automatically the largest corp ever.
Over the next decade what are they going to do any differently that what they did over the last 5 years? They will be boring as hell. Watching Microsoft is going to be like watching paint dry.
Really? Well, if I was Bill, I surely will undersign this statement. Look at MS stock price 5 years ago and look at it now. If the same growth is going to take place in the next 5 years, mr. BillG is going to buy the US.
(Remember Beta Vs. VHS? By technology alone Betamax should have won, but do you own a Beta VCR?)
Still with this urban legend? C'mon people, grow up...
Beta failed because the tapes were too short. Putting a movie on a beta tape was too expensive compared to VHS, so the market moved to where the software was available.
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>RSS has 11 different varieties, 9 if you exclude the two attempts at an "RSS 3". Atom has a single variety.
If you count Atom 0.3 and Atom 1.0 a "single variety", then yes.
>RSS 1.0 has a way to include HTML in the feed. RSS 2.0 doesn't. Atom does, and also supports XHTML
RSS 2.0 can include HTML in feeds just fine. That's how the Metaweblog API are implemented, btw.
>RSS 1.0 is extensible in a standard way via namespaces. RSS 2.0 is extended via ad-hoc additions. Atom is extensible via namespaces.
RSS 2.0 is perfectly extensible via namespaces, like iTunes did. As an aside, that's the only way RSS can be extended, short of completely ignoring the spec.
>Atom is more complicated than RSS 1.0, which is more complicated than RSS 2.0.
For you, maybe. All of them are fairly simple to implement for any programmer that doesn't flip burgers during his workday.
But hey, four sentences, four mistakes. You almost beat the original topic in wrongness!
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My understanding, with dealing with various MS employees, is that they're not allowed to see ANY source code if it doesn't have a license attached. If I show some code to a MS person and that code, by purpose or not, ends up in a MS product, I could sue the company.
Not wanting to take that risk, MS asks its employees to avoid looking at "unprotected" source.
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Yeah, it's funny :)
Of course, let's not look at the fact that, to have an Hotmail account, you've already created a Passport ID. Yeah, never let facts go in the way of some sane old FUD.
All MSDN documents are free on the msdn site. The only time you pay if for the premium downloads.
Stop spewing FUD, moron.
This sounds EXACTLY like a description of a Linux zealot :)
Our fundamental rights are under concerted and widespread attack in ways which parallel many of the lessons of history.
So it's ok to compare the holocaust, with tens of millions people dead, to a business enterprise?
Sure. Whatever.
You have no sense of proportion, dismal taste (insulting all the jews in a single sweeping sentence), and a fairly tenous grasp of reality.
I strongly suggest to reconsiderate your priorities, if that's your life view...
Yeah. Arbeit macht frei
Godwin Law. You lose.
Everything after the first line of your reply is not worth of reading anymore.
Damn, I thought everybody knew that...
So you bought hundreds of Compaq servers with Microsoft software already installed and then wiped it out?
I can't see how this is bad for Microsoft, they got your money.
I can see how it's incredibly stupid of you, however, how much did those server licenses cost? Did the CFO approved such an idiotic purchase? So you can run free software (regardless of its merits, it seems)?
After your purchase, market share for Microsoft servers went up by hundreds of units (because they actually made money out of it)...
Well go on. Nobody is stopping you and we'll all cheer from the sidelines. But don't send me betas, I'd like the 1.0 (1.1 would be even better) version.
So? How long could it take? Hours? A weekend?
Which also shows that, on a casual hacker's day, 12% (60% of 20%) of the sites he hacked were on IIS and 30% (30% of 60%) were on Apache.
NEVER use statistics. It does no good to anyone.
On a 4mt-class telescope, it takes 1024 small transputers and one PC running Windows and IDL. It's more than enough, all the work is done by the transputers (FFT , etc...) and the PC has just to coordinate the workload.
Point a large telescope to the moon and the camera will explode. Literally.
Too much light coming from such a nearby object.
HP 9000 series running HP/UX. At least that was the operating environment 2 years ago, when I left.
And tons of custom hardware.
All the software is custom written in-house (ESO and participating observatories) except for the RTOS and TCL/TK for the UIF gadgetry.
Heh.. the fluent eloquency of ACs...
Anyways, I assume you're not familiar with that episode, so let me recall it to you:
First Apple announce their export-restricted supercomputer to be available in 350/400/500 Mhz speed steppings. Online ordering is available immediately.
Lots of people order a G4/500 at a certain price (I don't remember exactly, let's say $4,000)
After a while, Mr. Jobs receives a note from Motorola saying that they cannot deliver enough 500Mhz CPUs to satisfy Apple's orders (Moto had bad yealds, but that's another story)
Mr. Jobs proudly announces that G4 will be stepped down by 50Mhz (300/350/450) and the orders placed will be delivered.
The interesting thing is that Jobs mantained the same price steps (so, if you ordered a 500Mhz for $4,000, you'll receive a 450Mhz for $4,000)
This friendly announcement caused quite a stir among the Mac community, so much that Jobs had to retreat and offer discounts for the Mhz downgrade.
Technically, this isn't recalling goods already in the marketplace, but it's something quite close. It's called "try to fool the customers and if they're gullible enough, run with the money"
Hope this was enough elaboration.
....at least Sony is recalling some of the defective stuff. Some companies enjoy selling defective products, then making you buy them all over again for a less defective version. Any come to mind?
Yup. Apple. (See the G4/500 then 450 then 500 fiasco...)
Gibson wrote FSP along with Tom Maddox (the same couple who did last year's AI episode). Anyways, Gibson's writing is quite tired since a couple of years...
Really funny :)
The fact that this is an ITALIAN company, selling their product in the ITALIAN market, where you can buy their CE phone in the ITALIAN stores is beside the point, right?
Microsoft, being the largest capitalized corporation in the world is clearly in that category.
Uh... I think there are bigger companies in the US, not mentioning the rest of the world. The name IBM or Bayer just comes to mind...
Microsoft is the biggest software company, but that doesn't make them automatically the largest corp ever.
Over the next decade what are they going to do any differently that what they did over the last 5 years? They will be boring as hell. Watching Microsoft is going to be like watching paint dry.
Really? Well, if I was Bill, I surely will undersign this statement. Look at MS stock price 5 years ago and look at it now. If the same growth is going to take place in the next 5 years, mr. BillG is going to buy the US.
Uh, no. The Ce phone was announced in February, manufactured during the summer and in the stores by October.
It's December, now. That is, two months AFTER October...
(Remember Beta Vs. VHS? By technology alone Betamax should have won, but do you own a Beta VCR?)
Still with this urban legend? C'mon people, grow up...
Beta failed because the tapes were too short. Putting a movie on a beta tape was too expensive compared to VHS, so the market moved to where the software was available.
I agree 100%. The problem is that there are basically no applications for Linux...
Again.
Resorting to name calling... such a mature attitude...
And you wonder why the general public see this people as weird.
I love it :)
Linux users never lose an occasion to show how childish and dumb they are...