For God's sake, ODF got away with pushing spreadsheet formulas off to a later version IIRC, this didn't come out at least until MS announced OOXML. It wasn't realized that a formula API needed to be standardized. Sure, that was an oversight, but we are engaging in hindsight.
The kind of errors that are in OOXML are not omissions but commissions.
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OOXML is no longer the primary problem. I say that for the time being, it should stand.
The greater concern for me is having ECMA stripped of its ability to push a standard through the fast-track process (Class A Liaison status, IIRC) and changing the fast-track process to be substantially less able to be abused, even if this means taking some or all of the "fast" out of "fast track".
Xonar D2X is introducing an innovative technology ÂDirectSound 3D Game Extensions v1.0 (DS3D GX 1.0)- to restore DirectSound 3D Hardware acceleration mode and its subsidiary EAX effects on Windows Vista for 3D games. Unlike some proprietary API like OpenAL, DS3D GX doesn't require games to support OpenAL API. All existing games compatible with Microsoft DirectX and DirectSound 2D/3D will be supported with DS3D GX technology. Before you start EAX and DS3D HW games, please enable DS3D GX on the Xonar D2X audio center, and disable the function after the games.
(Emphasis added.)
I think I just now died a little bit on the inside.
The open source OpenAL is 100% software; I found various posts from 2003 and 2005 that said that an in-house closed-source implementation for Windows uses the 3D acceleration available in their cards (with Creative-bashing to the faces of their engineers at no extra cost:P ).
Works 99.999% awesome with ALSA (then again, I haven't experienced the rare problem that the cs46xx driver had in a very long time, so maybe I should say 100%), has hardware mixing (though I am using PulseAudio now; perhaps in the future soundcard manufacturers would be so nice as to have per-mixer-input volumes in hardware---not that it really matters), and generally Just Works.
Of course, maybe if sound starts to recover from the crap Creative has done to it (maintaining OpenAL is the only halfway-decent thing they do now), I could always get a newer one.
I took CS AB instead of Latin Literature my senior year. I actually kinda regret that, since being able to skip an intro CS course was hardly worth the foregone intellectual enrichment.
I continue to see people piss all over the classics, and I am saddened and angered. Show some fucking respect for the civilizations which formed the basis for your own!
I think that a distinction should be made between being easy to use and being easy to administrate. They are often completely different skills, and the phrasing should reflect this.
I don't even think the hardcore/i/nsurgents would resort to something like this. I've started to look through a few of the places where this sort of this is discussed (the few I know about), and I haven't found anything. I think I might even leave them a note about someone doing this in the name of Anon, and how this undermines their long-term goals.
However, I would not completely rule out a rogue newfag or two who thinks this is funny.
I thanked Mr Cheong, for bringing up this important letter from Mr Patrick Durusau. His case just highlights the strange situation we are in today. If you know the background history of Mr Durusau, you will understand why he may have to write a letter like this.
You see, Mr Durusau is the Editor of ODF, but more importantly he is also the Chair of the US Technical Committee V1, which is equivalent to Malaysia's TC4 here. What is interesting, is that because of this OOXML issue, his committee has been stacked. Now it's OK for them in the US to stack their committees because that's how their system works, so they grew from a committee of 7 members before OOXML to 26 members after it started. Fortunately, in Malaysia, ISC-G prevented this from happening at TC4.
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So in essence, V1 has been taken over by Microsofties, and Mr Durusau is in a tight situation. If he were to be negative towards OOXML, his stacked V1 will retaliate and bar the progress of his normal work: work on ODF 1.2.
The best and most logical option for Mr Durusau is of course to "agree" with his captors 'demands, and hopefuly they would be merciful later on. So its a strange political play which he has to act out.
This is conjecture, obviously, but I find it plausible, FWIW, especially since there is now a follow-up.
If it's in your cache or history, if it's in a freed portion of the HD but still intact, the info will still be there. If they find it, they will arrest you.
This entire topic makes me want to break shit. I need to go take my anxiolytic and calm down.
Whether or not I agree with the wiretaps, the idea of NOT granting immunity to those who cooperated with the government sets a bad precedent, undermining the credibility of the U.S. government. Maybe, just maybe, that's because the US Government deserves, in part, loss of credibility.
1. There are more important things to do. 2. MS used its market share to dictate to the graphics hardware companies those operations which must be done in hardware. That, combined with... 3. SGI blew it with OpenGL. I haven't heard much from Khronos yet. Is there anything buzzworthy going on there? 4. Somebody should throw some money and programming time at libSDL. Would porting the relevant portions to consoles and extending where necessary be useful? (Just throwing up an idea.)
Epic's been using a derivative of the Loki installer (I think). It's worked well for UT. You have to copy a shell script to your hard drive and run it (OH NOES! THAT'S TOO HARD!), but otherwise it acts like a regular installer.
Your processes may have been sufficient before this point; however, this is no longer the case. Your lack of transparency is unacceptable henceforth, and radical improvements in this area are demanded.
You have the option not to run this sort of program. If it sucks, turn it off.
Also, Windows' VM system (IMNSHO) has always sucked and will continue to suck; predictive loading of entire bits of software has nothing to do with it.
fglrx is probably a technical and legal mess unable to be cleaned up with less effort than it would take to re-write the drivers using good documentation.
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Not to mention the civil liabilites the ISP possibly incurs.
The kind of errors that are in OOXML are not omissions but commissions.
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OOXML is no longer the primary problem. I say that for the time being, it should stand.
The greater concern for me is having ECMA stripped of its ability to push a standard through the fast-track process (Class A Liaison status, IIRC) and changing the fast-track process to be substantially less able to be abused, even if this means taking some or all of the "fast" out of "fast track".
(Emphasis added.)
I think I just now died a little bit on the inside.
The open source OpenAL is 100% software; I found various posts from 2003 and 2005 that said that an in-house closed-source implementation for Windows uses the 3D acceleration available in their cards (with Creative-bashing to the faces of their engineers at no extra cost :P ).
Works 99.999% awesome with ALSA (then again, I haven't experienced the rare problem that the cs46xx driver had in a very long time, so maybe I should say 100%), has hardware mixing (though I am using PulseAudio now; perhaps in the future soundcard manufacturers would be so nice as to have per-mixer-input volumes in hardware---not that it really matters), and generally Just Works.
Of course, maybe if sound starts to recover from the crap Creative has done to it (maintaining OpenAL is the only halfway-decent thing they do now), I could always get a newer one.
Support exists already. Run a version of make config on the kernel sources, and maybe you'll see this.
I took CS AB instead of Latin Literature my senior year. I actually kinda regret that, since being able to skip an intro CS course was hardly worth the foregone intellectual enrichment.
I continue to see people piss all over the classics, and I am saddened and angered. Show some fucking respect for the civilizations which formed the basis for your own!
I think that a distinction should be made between being easy to use and being easy to administrate. They are often completely different skills, and the phrasing should reflect this.
I would tend to agree.
/i/nsurgents would resort to something like this. I've started to look through a few of the places where this sort of this is discussed (the few I know about), and I haven't found anything. I think I might even leave them a note about someone doing this in the name of Anon, and how this undermines their long-term goals.
I don't even think the hardcore
However, I would not completely rule out a rogue newfag or two who thinks this is funny.
DO WANT DO WANT DO WANT DO WANT DO WANT DO WANT DO WANT!!!
(Yes, I know this is lame, filter. I don't care. It's true.)
(I'm really serious: that is what I said. Now let me say it.)
This is conjecture, obviously, but I find it plausible, FWIW, especially since there is now a follow-up.
No, it ISN'T clean.
If it's in your cache or history, if it's in a freed portion of the HD but still intact, the info will still be there. If they find it, they will arrest you.
This entire topic makes me want to break shit. I need to go take my anxiolytic and calm down.
Telia tried to route through other carriers. Cogent blocked this after half a day.
Disgusting if you ask me.
When you automate it to the degree MS has, there is no choice but to blame them.
You'd have to be more concrete about Linux "updating", since there are so many options.
They could be discussing this behind the scenes instead of in an official session. (This is official, isn't it?) Would you prefer that?
1. There are more important things to do.
2. MS used its market share to dictate to the graphics hardware companies those operations which must be done in hardware. That, combined with...
3. SGI blew it with OpenGL. I haven't heard much from Khronos yet. Is there anything buzzworthy going on there?
4. Somebody should throw some money and programming time at libSDL. Would porting the relevant portions to consoles and extending where necessary be useful? (Just throwing up an idea.)
Epic's been using a derivative of the Loki installer (I think). It's worked well for UT. You have to copy a shell script to your hard drive and run it (OH NOES! THAT'S TOO HARD!), but otherwise it acts like a regular installer.
Your processes may have been sufficient before this point; however, this is no longer the case. Your lack of transparency is unacceptable henceforth, and radical improvements in this area are demanded.
FWIW.
It wasn't so much a memory leak issue as it was memory fragmentation.
You have the option not to run this sort of program. If it sucks, turn it off.
Also, Windows' VM system (IMNSHO) has always sucked and will continue to suck; predictive loading of entire bits of software has nothing to do with it.
Just let it go. This pissing match over innovation serves no useful purpose.
fglrx is probably a technical and legal mess unable to be cleaned up with less effort than it would take to re-write the drivers using good documentation.