You cannot prove the uncertainly principle (the quantum physics one)
The uncertainty principle cannot be applied to the Web or the `blogosphere': it can only be applied to particles in the quantum scale.
We already have waaay too many people `applying' Gödel's theorem or Heisenberg principle to things these do not apply. Please do not add yourself to the list.
The `problem' with string theory is,mostly, that we do not have instruments good enough to measure its predictions, not they it does not make predictions or that it is not testable.
The Linux community isn't the only one that like to fuck around with their OS.
I really wonder how the experience of `fucking around' Windows is: I guess pretty much alike juggling black boxes... Imagine if those black box jugglers found out about one of those oses you really can fuck around, the things they'd come up with!
If you re going to do that, what purpose does the serial number play at all? Just pass a law making it a felony to coerce someone into telling you who they voted for...
I don't see why choice versus inclination matters.
Inclination? What are you talking about? An inclination to be a certain age? An inclination to be gay? An inclination to be Asian? An inclination to be female? An inclination to be sick?
Well, the/. community may very well provide different readings, points of views, related information and so on. That is not `a collective coming to a cohesive answer', but it can be useful anyways.
Assuming that's plain text file: note that this is not an argument showing plain-text is an insecure format: it just means that it is being misused. You can misuse anything.
So you honestly think that having words being flagged as misspelt while you are typing is a bad idea?
As for formatting, well, you are preaching to the choir, as I use LaTeX for 99.99999% of everything I write. In any case, I would not call anything that vim does for me `formatting'.
So you want an app for writing and another app for editing? How does that work? Do you consider using the backspace key editing or writing? And so on...
What would you expect OpenOffice (or any other app!) to do with an SGML document whose particular set of elements and entities it does not know?
Nothing, of course! That's why, if I had to archive data in such a format for the long term, I'd expect to include a reader and/or a schema (i.e. DTD for the SGML in question). Yes, for ODF both reader and schema will probably available in the far future. But, over 25+ years, it's not certain. Could you guarantee it? Personally?
The schema is available available from ISO, if you like officially looking things, but you can get it from many other sources. For example, http://std.dkuug.dk/keld/iso26300-odf/ has the actual official ISO document. Just get a copy and save it with your files.
As for the reader: the fun thing is, you can write your own, because the schema is fully documented. Now, by ``write your own'' I do not mean necessarily that you yourself write it: you can pay someone to do it, you can ask nicely thatsomeone does it for free, and so on.
2 Keep a copy of your existing O12 or earlier Office software. Run it (probably in a VM so you can use it 10 years or more from now) to convert legacy formats to more recent formats.
You are using the word insecure in the meaning related to `it is insecure to obtain it from untrusted sources'. Here we are discussing the fact that Office will not open files the user already has...
What this patch means is, that Microsoft has finally recognized that it is not able to provide parsers/writers/etc for these formats that are not subject to buffer overflows. The patch is thus basically a confession of ineptitude.
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You cannot prove the uncertainly principle (the quantum physics one)
The uncertainty principle cannot be applied to the Web or the `blogosphere': it can only be applied to particles in the quantum scale.
We already have waaay too many people `applying' Gödel's theorem or Heisenberg principle to things these do not apply. Please do not add yourself to the list.
I don't know about the GP, but I surely deny that doctrine has any grounding on reality.
No, not really.
The `problem' with string theory is,mostly, that we do not have instruments good enough to measure its predictions, not they it does not make predictions or that it is not testable.
I really wonder how the experience of `fucking around' Windows is: I guess pretty much alike juggling black boxes... Imagine if those black box jugglers found out about one of those oses you really can fuck around, the things they'd come up with!
If you re going to do that, what purpose does the serial number play at all? Just pass a law making it a felony to coerce someone into telling you who they voted for...
Inclination? What are you talking about? An inclination to be a certain age? An inclination to be gay? An inclination to be Asian? An inclination to be female? An inclination to be sick?
Isn't the OOXML spec bigger, actually?
Well, the /. community may very well provide different readings, points of views, related information and so on. That is not `a collective coming to a cohesive answer', but it can be useful anyways.
And those 6 GB get you... minesweeper and notepad.
Security is a bonus.
Linux does everything I need, and well, and in many ways better than the MS alternatives. That is what has to change for any death blows to happen...
Basic?!
Assuming that's plain text file: note that this is not an argument showing plain-text is an insecure format: it just means that it is being misused. You can misuse anything.
There a great chances you already do... ;-)
So you honestly think that having words being flagged as misspelt while you are typing is a bad idea?
As for formatting, well, you are preaching to the choir, as I use LaTeX for 99.99999% of everything I write. In any case, I would not call anything that vim does for me `formatting'.
vte does it if the app using it tells it to.
So you want an app for writing and another app for editing? How does that work? Do you consider using the backspace key editing or writing? And so on...
You should read up on XeTeX, for example.
You can do that in userspace, using already existing GPLed infrastructure.
You mean, something like the '96-proposed IDN <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name>?
Nothing, of course! That's why, if I had to archive data in such a format for the long term, I'd expect to include a reader and/or a schema (i.e. DTD for the SGML in question). Yes, for ODF both reader and schema will probably available in the far future. But, over 25+ years, it's not certain. Could you guarantee it? Personally?
The schema is available available from ISO, if you like officially looking things, but you can get it from many other sources. For example, http://std.dkuug.dk/keld/iso26300-odf/ has the actual official ISO document. Just get a copy and save it with your files.
As for the reader: the fun thing is, you can write your own, because the schema is fully documented. Now, by ``write your own'' I do not mean necessarily that you yourself write it: you can pay someone to do it, you can ask nicely thatsomeone does it for free, and so on.
Well it supports virualization at the OS level provided you get a new copy...
2 Keep a copy of your existing O12 or earlier Office software. Run it (probably in a VM so you can use it 10 years or more from now) to convert legacy formats to more recent formats.
Is that even legal, without buying a new copy?
You are using the word insecure in the meaning related to `it is insecure to obtain it from untrusted sources'. Here we are discussing the fact that Office will not open files the user already has...
You are making an absurd point. Of course we are all just talking about formats with a specified semantics.
What would you expect OpenOffice (or any other app!) to do with an SGML document whose particular set of elements and entities it does not know?
Buffer overflows occur in the software.
What this patch means is, that Microsoft has finally recognized that it is not able to provide parsers/writers/etc for these formats that are not subject to buffer overflows. The patch is thus basically a confession of ineptitude.