I was actually giving this some thought the other day and perhaps firefox should use one of the C++ garbage collecting libraries. A webbrowser really just needs to be usable and low on memory, no crtical speed requirements as long as the UI is responsive, websites render quickly, and javascript interprets at decent speeds (none of which a garbage collector would slow down). Firefox developers could still focus on keeping the memory footprint down, but applying a garbage collector is a good solution because its unlikely they'll ever remove every memory leak. This would remove most of them, help detect others, and keep the remaining problems minimal. Regards, Steve
The gravity and velocity of the comet i'm sure held it together. Your used to being on Earth, rules are a bit different when you leave the atmosphere. Matter tends to clump together, when that matter is in an orbit and moving at high velocities all together, it acts nearly as a solid. Despite that its a bunch of powder, you still calculate its center of gravity as though its solid. You are a bunch of cells but if I hit you, you don't fall apart. A bunch of powder moving in a direction will continue to move in that direction until acted upon by an outside force. The comet was big, the probe was small, the force not nearly large enough to knock it off oribt or to make the thing explode. Regards, Steve
Umm... use Fedora or Ubuntu, every problem you listed is not a problem. The clipboard services is simply a clipboard management spec by Freedesktop and it supports many items on the clipboard at a time. Similar things existed before but only recently did they implement the freedesktop.org spec. GnomeVFS is fine in userland, its not a hack, thats how it is supposed to be and its more secure that way. Applications haven't stolen focus since Gnome 2.8 or 2.10. Themes have been standardized for some time now at least on desktop oriented distros like Fedora. Note that Windows XP ships with various themes and many corporate environments default to the classic theme, does that mean it isn't Windows XP? Least-privilege users are exactly what the world needs more of. Installing applications is a rare occurence, you never need a compiler on Fedora or Ubuntu (everything is binary packages handled automatically) and if a user tries to do something that requires root, they are simply prompted for the password. Linux is way ahead of the game, wake me up when OSX starts focusing on usability and not on cheap gimmicky effects and when they get a package management system, not some dumb "drag your application here to install it and watch as many files on your harddrive are duplicated". Regards, Steve
You've never used Fedora or Ubuntu, eh? Significantly easier then Windows XP or Apple and much cleaner interfaces (I prefer Gnome). All of the problems you mentioned haven't been problems for dekstop oriented distros for 3 or 4 years now (In large part due to Red Hat paying many of Gnome developers, doing HIG studies and providing other resources). Only distros like Debian (I do run some debian servers) and slackware still have that bullshit to deal with. If you ever hear of a linux user complain about something with desktop configuration they msot likely are using a server oriented distro. Regards, Steve
I believe the clearlooks theme has been around for ages, it was just recently cleaned up. (If it wasn't around for ages, then it was derived from another theme which was because I remember using it) Regards, Steve
Gnome menu editing has always been integrated with the menu, either through context menus or drag & drop. It's been dead simple, for some reason KDE folk can never figure it out, read the Gnome mailing list discussions. Honest to god every KDE user that switched to Gnome bitched about that, but just about noone else. A sane person would think that it is absurd to have to open up a whole new program just to edit a menu. KDE's lack of a good HIG is teaching bad habits. Regards, Steve
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Desktop windows haven't been able to steal focus in Gnome since I believe 2.10 (or whatever version shipped with Fedore Core 4), the taskbar blinks when the window is loaded. Regards, Steve
The only reason that there is a menu editor is for you damn KDE freaks who were taught that bad habit. Gnome menu editing is integrated with the damn menu, everything is drag & drop or context menu. Many KDE users couldn't figure it out when in reality HIG studies by both Red Hat and I believe also Novell showed that normal users found that intuitive and having to open up a whole new program just to edit a menu in KDE was absurd.
Red Hat does quite a few studies on user interaction on the Linux desktop and they found that only 5% of a developers needs overlap with regular users. All those decisions that are made about the gui are made because 95% of the people prefer them or find them more natural. Don't let KDE's bad habits affect your opinion of Gnome.
In Gnome if you want to do something, its most likely the most obvious way of doing it so try it (don't think obvious as a developer, think obvious as a regular user). Also some of the configuration things that KDE people bitch about are nonsense. If you want to configure every little thing, then use KDE, if you want your Desktop Environment integrated naturally, use Gnome. You can still configure anything you want, albeit you may have to do it in a slightly more convoluted way. Regular users should never come face to face with a configuration dialog of any sort unless they have every intention of it and they know whats going on. Most users don't know, configuring minor things should not be readily available to users. One more note, developers tend to be sloppy, spatial is much better once again for an average person. Once you use it for a bit, you realize the benefits. So many people have spent years in that alternative horrid messy directory structure that they automatically assume change is bad. Wake up and give Gnome a shot, it does alot under the hood for you and will make your desktop experience more efficient. Regards, Steve
Yes but see those 20 Windows computers are counted as Windows. If you did something like my university typically does and take those 20 computers (or in the case of my school 60 to 100 at a time) and convert them to linux then that market share is much less likely to be counted and the lack of windows on those machines will never be known outside of the organization. Regards, Steve
Last I checked, Linux's desktop share was higher than Apple's which puts Linux over the 3% mark. Desktop numbers are highly biased againt linux simply because a) Most linux machines were previously windows, and b) Windows machines tend to be replaced more often, i.e. if i buy a windows computer today and another one in 2 years, both will be considered to be active and the nuber will be twice what it really is. Regards, Steve
We surprisingly have a good handle over nature in New Orleans. If the levies had been maintained and updated fully starting circa 2000 and had not been cut in 2003 (due to Bush diverting money to the war) none of this would have happened. Most of the hurricane missed New Orleans, the only reason any of this happened is because the levies broke (some as old as 100 years). They had the design and plan in place to secure the levies against acts exactly like what had happened, it doesn't matter if the hurricane was a category 5, they had engineered for it but were halted before it finished. The levies were so old and weak that even a category 3 hurricane probably would have broken them, causing even more damage because noone would have evacuated if it was only category 3. I know when fighting nature, nature tends to win, but this is one battle that we prepared for and would have won. The core of the problem stems back to the big eared fellow 50% of my fellow americans unfortunately voted for. Regards, Steve
Google extended the Jabber protocol to support voice in a jabber friendly way. They are preparing the spec for public release right now and I assume it'll be integrated with Gaim. Google paid several developers for Gaim over the "Summer of Code" and I believe they still have other resources dedicated to adding features to gaim. Regardless, if it is an open spec it will eventually be added to Gaim and Google's protocol will most likely support Speex according to their site. Regards, Steve
Depsite Google Talk's extreme lack of features (i.e. emoticons, no file transfers, no conversation logging), their Talk part is quite superior to Skype's. The voice quality is clearly higher and the bandwidth usage is similar to Skype's (both can be used over a 56k connection just fine). It seems Google put a lot of focus on the backend stuff, and they are currently writing up the spec for it to be released as an open protocol. Skype was significanlty better then prior generations, but Google's Talk is probably the best in town right now as far as quality goes. Regards, Steve
Although many here think that supporting those things are pointless, regardless the Opendocument format supports Movies, Sounds, Java Applets, and just about anything else you could need. Microsoft realizes that they had no argument here so they resorted to literally outright lying about the feature set in order to try and convince them otherwise. The tactics they use are disgusting. Regards, Steve
Let me say that the 40% of flex time is part of doing business. I've worked in all kinds of environments and private sector too and even though I spend 40% less time focused on coding, I am 2 to 3 times more productive, not only that but my code quality is better (which may also have to do with experience). That 40% is just an expense, it is part of the work day, without that 40% we'd be producing less code, nothing illegal about it. If you really dont agree, read anything about Agile Development, Extreme Programming, Pair programming or anything along those lines.
As far as being on time and on budget, that is the whole point of Agile. We have *never* been late and have *never* once gone over budget, Agile is designed for that exact purpose. Your work is divided into sprints (ours ends every 3rd Thursday) and you reevaluate priorities and judge progress, retask as needed. We give a deliverable every 3 months. It is no longer saying "Okay these are all the features you want, we'll be back in 5 years with the product.", it is now more like "Okay these are all the features you want, we'll work on the most important ones first and deliver you fully functional, stable software every 3 months (with an easy upgrade path), and after 4 years you'll have everything you asked for."
It works out better because typically software is required when requested and delivered years later when needs may have changed. Using agile, you deliver the core functionality quickly and if the customer's needs change a year or two from now, its no big deal because you reevalute priorities every sprint and can quickly change for the customer's needs (thus being agile). Forcing programmers to work 40 hours straight is ridiculous, its not your typical work, it requires alot of mental abilities and intelligence, draining the brain is just bad business sense and has long term affects, the programmers minds are key to success so they should be "pampered" to one degree or another. It is in the government's best interest to expense that 40%, its just the cost of doing business, regardless they get better quality and they get it quicker. By the time the whole project is finished, the original functionality has been tested so much (besides standard QA practices) that is as near to being bug free as any complex system can be. Once again, all of this goes on without going over budget. As a result of the programmers never getting drained, my company actually has a tendency to deliver before the dead line. Your reference to going over budget and past dealines stems typically from too much bureaucracy, all of which Agile does away with (the teams are self sufficient). Regards, Steve
Where I work we follow the whole "Agile" paradigm and when we task ourselves with work, we are to assume that we'll only be 60% productive. This isn't something we made up, this is in the books, apparently many studies find that the ideal time is about 60% for programmers, its just enough for you to get in the zone and do some good coding, but its not too much to mentally strain you, thus causing poor quality work later. That also accounts for time in meetings etc... There are no restricitons on what we browse on the net, or what we can install on our computers (including games like WoW). My company just wants us to get our work done, and to do it well. We come in when we want, leave when we want, and they aren't allowed to ask us to come in anyother time unless we want to. Noone assigns the teams with work, they tell us what needs to get done and we choose what we think we can get done each sprint. The 60% thing works really well, a lot of people constantly dread going to work but when you go to work and its actually kind of fun and you dont get stressed out, you find that the time you are working you're 2 to 3 times more productive. We have everything from basketball and football to foosball, ping pong, etc... too. I look foward to going to work, I like not only the way they treat us but I'm genuinely interested in the work I do there (I work at a defense contractor on 2 classified projects for the DoD). I feel bad for people who dont feel the way I do about their jobs, its not fair that they'd have to do that. Regards, Steve
In all fairness, Americans tend to travel alot more per year for work and things. America is big and not quite as compact as most European cities. Sure alot of people can take public transportation, and a lot do, but its not always feasible. In London everyone rides the tube (underground, or whatever a tourist like myself would call it), in America you can't do that. alot of people travel to work 100 miles away, and I know 1 or 2 people that travel 400 miles sometimes depending on what office they need to be at (often times they can take the train though). Regardless, its a matter of supply and demand, and as far as economies of scale go, we use a ton more, so much so that a little over a year and a half to 2 years ago I was paying just aover a dollar a gallon for gas. Its a part of our economy, cheap gas lets our workforce spread out further. I think you'd have to live here to get it, but thats just the way it worked out. Not sure what the point of this post was other then to justify our gas prices by claiming we use more, and jsutify our gas usage by arguing that our geography and infastructure unfortunately requires it. We may produce the most pollution from cars, but I think in other areas we are bit more strict then most of the world or historically have been and once we get Bush out of office, perhaps we can lead again in that area. Hybrids are a very welcome thing though in America and many car dealreships are constantly sold out of them. Regards, Steve
It's not a simple format, but it's been known from the get go that this would be a trial & error kind of deal. Getting everything into a clean XML format can be a pain, and most of the spec is fine, there are some less clear areas but its not a show stopper. A complex or unclear format doesn't mean its bad, Adobe implemented it just fine. Microsoft's own doc spec is from what I've heard significantly worse and makes references to the source code saying more or less how they hacked it together and why. If you read any of the ms dev blogs or older stories you'll see references to them tring to fix a bug in office that they can't track down or that they aren't sure what will be affected because the spec isn't clear and they can only go by the code they see, test, and hope. Regards, Steve
OpenDocument supports pictures, or any kind of media. Microsoft is flat out lying about the capabilities. Download OpenOffice 2.0, its a stable beta but 1.x also has this functionality and go to the Insert menu, then select pictures, graphs, spreadsheets, movies or sounds, java applets, pretty much anything) MS needs to be taken to court for lying inorder to receive government money. Regards, Steve
OpenDocument does support any kind of media, if supports java applets, and a multitude of other features as well. If it can be done with MS Office, it can be done with OpenDocument. Micorosft is literally lying flat out about the capabilities of the format. The funny thing is that OpenDocument files take up significantly less space, especially when you start embedding media into them. (If you dont believe me, download OpenOffice 2.0, its a very stable beta and the 1.x version has this functionality but i dont like the suite as much, and go to Insert->Movies & Sounds) Regards, Steve
You can embed any kind of media in an OpenDocument format, as well as java applets and many other things. There is no loss of functionality, MS is just freaking out cause they've been discovered. Regards, Steve
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I was actually giving this some thought the other day and perhaps firefox should use one of the C++ garbage collecting libraries. A webbrowser really just needs to be usable and low on memory, no crtical speed requirements as long as the UI is responsive, websites render quickly, and javascript interprets at decent speeds (none of which a garbage collector would slow down). Firefox developers could still focus on keeping the memory footprint down, but applying a garbage collector is a good solution because its unlikely they'll ever remove every memory leak. This would remove most of them, help detect others, and keep the remaining problems minimal.
Regards,
Steve
The gravity and velocity of the comet i'm sure held it together. Your used to being on Earth, rules are a bit different when you leave the atmosphere. Matter tends to clump together, when that matter is in an orbit and moving at high velocities all together, it acts nearly as a solid. Despite that its a bunch of powder, you still calculate its center of gravity as though its solid. You are a bunch of cells but if I hit you, you don't fall apart. A bunch of powder moving in a direction will continue to move in that direction until acted upon by an outside force. The comet was big, the probe was small, the force not nearly large enough to knock it off oribt or to make the thing explode.
Regards,
Steve
Umm... use Fedora or Ubuntu, every problem you listed is not a problem. The clipboard services is simply a clipboard management spec by Freedesktop and it supports many items on the clipboard at a time. Similar things existed before but only recently did they implement the freedesktop.org spec. GnomeVFS is fine in userland, its not a hack, thats how it is supposed to be and its more secure that way. Applications haven't stolen focus since Gnome 2.8 or 2.10. Themes have been standardized for some time now at least on desktop oriented distros like Fedora. Note that Windows XP ships with various themes and many corporate environments default to the classic theme, does that mean it isn't Windows XP? Least-privilege users are exactly what the world needs more of. Installing applications is a rare occurence, you never need a compiler on Fedora or Ubuntu (everything is binary packages handled automatically) and if a user tries to do something that requires root, they are simply prompted for the password. Linux is way ahead of the game, wake me up when OSX starts focusing on usability and not on cheap gimmicky effects and when they get a package management system, not some dumb "drag your application here to install it and watch as many files on your harddrive are duplicated".
Regards,
Steve
You've never used Fedora or Ubuntu, eh? Significantly easier then Windows XP or Apple and much cleaner interfaces (I prefer Gnome). All of the problems you mentioned haven't been problems for dekstop oriented distros for 3 or 4 years now (In large part due to Red Hat paying many of Gnome developers, doing HIG studies and providing other resources). Only distros like Debian (I do run some debian servers) and slackware still have that bullshit to deal with. If you ever hear of a linux user complain about something with desktop configuration they msot likely are using a server oriented distro.
Regards,
Steve
I believe the clearlooks theme has been around for ages, it was just recently cleaned up. (If it wasn't around for ages, then it was derived from another theme which was because I remember using it)
Regards,
Steve
Gnome menu editing has always been integrated with the menu, either through context menus or drag & drop. It's been dead simple, for some reason KDE folk can never figure it out, read the Gnome mailing list discussions. Honest to god every KDE user that switched to Gnome bitched about that, but just about noone else. A sane person would think that it is absurd to have to open up a whole new program just to edit a menu. KDE's lack of a good HIG is teaching bad habits.
Regards,
Steve
Desktop windows haven't been able to steal focus in Gnome since I believe 2.10 (or whatever version shipped with Fedore Core 4), the taskbar blinks when the window is loaded.
Regards,
Steve
The only reason that there is a menu editor is for you damn KDE freaks who were taught that bad habit. Gnome menu editing is integrated with the damn menu, everything is drag & drop or context menu. Many KDE users couldn't figure it out when in reality HIG studies by both Red Hat and I believe also Novell showed that normal users found that intuitive and having to open up a whole new program just to edit a menu in KDE was absurd.
Red Hat does quite a few studies on user interaction on the Linux desktop and they found that only 5% of a developers needs overlap with regular users. All those decisions that are made about the gui are made because 95% of the people prefer them or find them more natural. Don't let KDE's bad habits affect your opinion of Gnome.
In Gnome if you want to do something, its most likely the most obvious way of doing it so try it (don't think obvious as a developer, think obvious as a regular user). Also some of the configuration things that KDE people bitch about are nonsense. If you want to configure every little thing, then use KDE, if you want your Desktop Environment integrated naturally, use Gnome. You can still configure anything you want, albeit you may have to do it in a slightly more convoluted way. Regular users should never come face to face with a configuration dialog of any sort unless they have every intention of it and they know whats going on. Most users don't know, configuring minor things should not be readily available to users. One more note, developers tend to be sloppy, spatial is much better once again for an average person. Once you use it for a bit, you realize the benefits. So many people have spent years in that alternative horrid messy directory structure that they automatically assume change is bad. Wake up and give Gnome a shot, it does alot under the hood for you and will make your desktop experience more efficient.
Regards,
Steve
Yes but see those 20 Windows computers are counted as Windows. If you did something like my university typically does and take those 20 computers (or in the case of my school 60 to 100 at a time) and convert them to linux then that market share is much less likely to be counted and the lack of windows on those machines will never be known outside of the organization.
Regards,
Steve
Last I checked, Linux's desktop share was higher than Apple's which puts Linux over the 3% mark. Desktop numbers are highly biased againt linux simply because a) Most linux machines were previously windows, and b) Windows machines tend to be replaced more often, i.e. if i buy a windows computer today and another one in 2 years, both will be considered to be active and the nuber will be twice what it really is.
Regards,
Steve
It's not what you do, but how easily you can be replaced, that determines your pay despite what anyone tells you.
Regards,
Steve
We surprisingly have a good handle over nature in New Orleans. If the levies had been maintained and updated fully starting circa 2000 and had not been cut in 2003 (due to Bush diverting money to the war) none of this would have happened. Most of the hurricane missed New Orleans, the only reason any of this happened is because the levies broke (some as old as 100 years). They had the design and plan in place to secure the levies against acts exactly like what had happened, it doesn't matter if the hurricane was a category 5, they had engineered for it but were halted before it finished. The levies were so old and weak that even a category 3 hurricane probably would have broken them, causing even more damage because noone would have evacuated if it was only category 3. I know when fighting nature, nature tends to win, but this is one battle that we prepared for and would have won. The core of the problem stems back to the big eared fellow 50% of my fellow americans unfortunately voted for.
Regards,
Steve
Google extended the Jabber protocol to support voice in a jabber friendly way. They are preparing the spec for public release right now and I assume it'll be integrated with Gaim. Google paid several developers for Gaim over the "Summer of Code" and I believe they still have other resources dedicated to adding features to gaim. Regardless, if it is an open spec it will eventually be added to Gaim and Google's protocol will most likely support Speex according to their site.
Regards,
Steve
Depsite Google Talk's extreme lack of features (i.e. emoticons, no file transfers, no conversation logging), their Talk part is quite superior to Skype's. The voice quality is clearly higher and the bandwidth usage is similar to Skype's (both can be used over a 56k connection just fine). It seems Google put a lot of focus on the backend stuff, and they are currently writing up the spec for it to be released as an open protocol. Skype was significanlty better then prior generations, but Google's Talk is probably the best in town right now as far as quality goes.
Regards,
Steve
It is. Mirrordot.org always caches the links, although they are not a part of OSDN.
Regards,
Steve
Although many here think that supporting those things are pointless, regardless the Opendocument format supports Movies, Sounds, Java Applets, and just about anything else you could need. Microsoft realizes that they had no argument here so they resorted to literally outright lying about the feature set in order to try and convince them otherwise. The tactics they use are disgusting.
Regards,
Steve
Let me say that the 40% of flex time is part of doing business. I've worked in all kinds of environments and private sector too and even though I spend 40% less time focused on coding, I am 2 to 3 times more productive, not only that but my code quality is better (which may also have to do with experience). That 40% is just an expense, it is part of the work day, without that 40% we'd be producing less code, nothing illegal about it. If you really dont agree, read anything about Agile Development, Extreme Programming, Pair programming or anything along those lines.
As far as being on time and on budget, that is the whole point of Agile. We have *never* been late and have *never* once gone over budget, Agile is designed for that exact purpose. Your work is divided into sprints (ours ends every 3rd Thursday) and you reevaluate priorities and judge progress, retask as needed. We give a deliverable every 3 months. It is no longer saying "Okay these are all the features you want, we'll be back in 5 years with the product.", it is now more like "Okay these are all the features you want, we'll work on the most important ones first and deliver you fully functional, stable software every 3 months (with an easy upgrade path), and after 4 years you'll have everything you asked for."
It works out better because typically software is required when requested and delivered years later when needs may have changed. Using agile, you deliver the core functionality quickly and if the customer's needs change a year or two from now, its no big deal because you reevalute priorities every sprint and can quickly change for the customer's needs (thus being agile). Forcing programmers to work 40 hours straight is ridiculous, its not your typical work, it requires alot of mental abilities and intelligence, draining the brain is just bad business sense and has long term affects, the programmers minds are key to success so they should be "pampered" to one degree or another. It is in the government's best interest to expense that 40%, its just the cost of doing business, regardless they get better quality and they get it quicker. By the time the whole project is finished, the original functionality has been tested so much (besides standard QA practices) that is as near to being bug free as any complex system can be. Once again, all of this goes on without going over budget. As a result of the programmers never getting drained, my company actually has a tendency to deliver before the dead line. Your reference to going over budget and past dealines stems typically from too much bureaucracy, all of which Agile does away with (the teams are self sufficient).
Regards,
Steve
Where I work we follow the whole "Agile" paradigm and when we task ourselves with work, we are to assume that we'll only be 60% productive. This isn't something we made up, this is in the books, apparently many studies find that the ideal time is about 60% for programmers, its just enough for you to get in the zone and do some good coding, but its not too much to mentally strain you, thus causing poor quality work later. That also accounts for time in meetings etc... There are no restricitons on what we browse on the net, or what we can install on our computers (including games like WoW). My company just wants us to get our work done, and to do it well. We come in when we want, leave when we want, and they aren't allowed to ask us to come in anyother time unless we want to. Noone assigns the teams with work, they tell us what needs to get done and we choose what we think we can get done each sprint. The 60% thing works really well, a lot of people constantly dread going to work but when you go to work and its actually kind of fun and you dont get stressed out, you find that the time you are working you're 2 to 3 times more productive. We have everything from basketball and football to foosball, ping pong, etc... too. I look foward to going to work, I like not only the way they treat us but I'm genuinely interested in the work I do there (I work at a defense contractor on 2 classified projects for the DoD). I feel bad for people who dont feel the way I do about their jobs, its not fair that they'd have to do that.
Regards,
Steve
How much does this Blueray tech cost over using HD-DVD...
Your freedom.
Regards,
Steve
In all fairness, Americans tend to travel alot more per year for work and things. America is big and not quite as compact as most European cities. Sure alot of people can take public transportation, and a lot do, but its not always feasible. In London everyone rides the tube (underground, or whatever a tourist like myself would call it), in America you can't do that. alot of people travel to work 100 miles away, and I know 1 or 2 people that travel 400 miles sometimes depending on what office they need to be at (often times they can take the train though). Regardless, its a matter of supply and demand, and as far as economies of scale go, we use a ton more, so much so that a little over a year and a half to 2 years ago I was paying just aover a dollar a gallon for gas. Its a part of our economy, cheap gas lets our workforce spread out further. I think you'd have to live here to get it, but thats just the way it worked out. Not sure what the point of this post was other then to justify our gas prices by claiming we use more, and jsutify our gas usage by arguing that our geography and infastructure unfortunately requires it. We may produce the most pollution from cars, but I think in other areas we are bit more strict then most of the world or historically have been and once we get Bush out of office, perhaps we can lead again in that area. Hybrids are a very welcome thing though in America and many car dealreships are constantly sold out of them.
Regards,
Steve
It's not a simple format, but it's been known from the get go that this would be a trial & error kind of deal. Getting everything into a clean XML format can be a pain, and most of the spec is fine, there are some less clear areas but its not a show stopper. A complex or unclear format doesn't mean its bad, Adobe implemented it just fine. Microsoft's own doc spec is from what I've heard significantly worse and makes references to the source code saying more or less how they hacked it together and why. If you read any of the ms dev blogs or older stories you'll see references to them tring to fix a bug in office that they can't track down or that they aren't sure what will be affected because the spec isn't clear and they can only go by the code they see, test, and hope.
Regards,
Steve
OpenDocument supports pictures, or any kind of media. Microsoft is flat out lying about the capabilities. Download OpenOffice 2.0, its a stable beta but 1.x also has this functionality and go to the Insert menu, then select pictures, graphs, spreadsheets, movies or sounds, java applets, pretty much anything) MS needs to be taken to court for lying inorder to receive government money.
Regards,
Steve
OpenDocument does support any kind of media, if supports java applets, and a multitude of other features as well. If it can be done with MS Office, it can be done with OpenDocument. Micorosft is literally lying flat out about the capabilities of the format. The funny thing is that OpenDocument files take up significantly less space, especially when you start embedding media into them. (If you dont believe me, download OpenOffice 2.0, its a very stable beta and the 1.x version has this functionality but i dont like the suite as much, and go to Insert->Movies & Sounds)
Regards,
Steve
You can embed any kind of media in an OpenDocument format, as well as java applets and many other things. There is no loss of functionality, MS is just freaking out cause they've been discovered.
Regards,
Steve
Please tell me you're kidding! If you're not, those e-mails aren't legit, it is scam artists stealing your information.
Regards,
Steve