If MS does add this feature I'm likely to just go out and buy an iPod[...] Microsoft doesn't care what you think or what you do with it. They got their $75 already.
That's what Microsoft claims.
It's taken what, 10 years just to get.Net 1.0 for Linux? Fuck that. This time-frame alone suggests it's not portable. Hell - ANYTHING can be ported in the span of 10 years. The relevant question is "To what reasonable degree is it portable"? I think "not" is a valid answer here.
The first spam message was sent to 393 users of ARPANET on May 2 1978 by someone from computing pioneers DEC. They had to type in all the addresses by hand first. Considering the pain in the arse that woulda been, I think he earned the right to not be shunned for his message being the first spam. Heh.
Subject: Re: Result of voting on ISO/IEC DIS 29500
Hello, I'm writing to voice my opinion on the approval of Microsoft's OOXML format. It amazes me that ISO allowed such a monstrosity to pass. Everyone is aware of Microsoft's unending history of corruption. They bought out as many representatives as they could, to get this vote. Even Norway had corrupt people within its circles, though their committee chairman wasn't one of them (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/31/200201) thankfully. It appears ISO completely ignored his protests however because this change of vote, according to the PDF file that I found here (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/01/2229207), lists Norway as Yes without comments, regardless of the fact that it was originally No with comments.
Shame on you ISO. You have successfully contributed to setting back innovation both directly and indirectly until you come to your senses and approve the ODF file format, or another format which will have been developed by a corporation that has nothing monetary to gain by standardization. How long will that be, 5 years? Maybe 10 years?
As this file (http://www.noooxml.org/local--files/arguments/TheCaseAgainstOOXML.pdf) should illustrate, everyone with two brain cells worth rubbing together knows that those thousands of pages contain many instances of Microsoft intentionally leaving out important information necessary to implement functional OOXML files which look and act identically in all software implementations. This should have been a massive red flag for ISO to choose to not even consider OOXML as a standard, much less APPROVE it.
I urge you to reconsider and reverse the decision to formally approve OOXML. OOXML should never have even been considered in the first place.
After this mistake, I will never fully trust ISO's standards again, considering how Microsoft successfully undermined its voting process, and ISO made no effort to verify or rectify the corruption. I suppose the next question could be "how much money did ISO gain by approving this format?" but I dare not ask. I'm sure I'd be sadly disappointed regardless of the answer given.
To be fair, the person who originally coined the term AJAX never even intended it as an acronym, just another buzz word. "Asynchronous AJAX" although logically redundant, could still be accurate without being technically redundant.
P.S. for the source of my info, read Heads-Up AJAX.:)
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Is that how sheepskins became so popular?
Who says it was a typo? I'd have gone for +1 pun. :)
You can say that easily because you aren't in the girl's situation.
[citation needed] please! I'm auburn too. :)
Better him than the gov't, odds are they'll claim ownership, despite not having the right to do so.
Where's the car, Mr. BadAnalogyGuy?
That'll happen eventually, as we get lazier and lazier, making all words shorter. End result? Grunts.
Really? I heard on the news that the US offered only $250,000. Canada offered $2 million (I think).
That's what Microsoft claims. It's taken what, 10 years just to get .Net 1.0 for Linux? Fuck that. This time-frame alone suggests it's not portable. Hell - ANYTHING can be ported in the span of 10 years. The relevant question is "To what reasonable degree is it portable"? I think "not" is a valid answer here.
Heh. This is how they force Wikipedia to unban the US gov't? I'm glad those aren't my tax dollars at work.
Hyperthreading meant +25% performance (at best) of the real core, not +50%. :)
I've always been an avid fan of Google's. That said, though this is innocent enough, it seems like a step in a dangerous direction (think 1984).
Until they hear our peculiarities, eh?
The shell covering the husk would protect it perfectly. I'd eat one happily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM All music coming from MySong will be identical.
I wish I had known that sooner. Heh, oh well, I believe I still made valid points though.
I'm not sure how to respond to your comment because everyone knows ODF is better.
Definitely. Definitely a vast reservoir of *something* at any rate.
To be fair, the person who originally coined the term AJAX never even intended it as an acronym, just another buzz word. "Asynchronous AJAX" although logically redundant, could still be accurate without being technically redundant.
:)
P.S. for the source of my info, read Heads-Up AJAX.
I really liked jPod. I can't believe *Slashdot* is where I first hear it got cancelled. Blah.