The 'rtf' standard is different in every single Microsoft (its creator) application that supports it.
Its not actually a standard more like a collection of formats that closely resemble each other but aren't actually the same in subtle ways that you'll never figure out.
The swimming thing is a well known and documented joke. It was removed because someone started threatening them about some stupid jackass trying it as I recall.
story about slashdotters who switched from an iPhone to android.
I know at least 5 people that switched from their iPhone to an Android device.... I don't think any of the lasted for a month before going back to their iPhones. So yes, some people switched, and then regret it fairly soon after.
Android doesn't actually offer any advantage over the iPhone that really matters and it has several disadvantages. Slashdot rants and raves over open and free and blah blah blah, but when it comes right down to it the only people ranting about 'free' are too cheap or poor to buy either so they just rant and don't actually matter. Then there are the techies that are happy to use an inferior product just so they can 'stick it to the man'... unfortunately the man doesn't give a shit about all 8 of those people.
You guys can sit around and circle jerk to android all day long, but I've yet to meet a person who actually thought it was great and not one person can provide an actual advantage android has to the iphone other than 'OMG CLOSED APP STORE OMGZ!@$!@%' which no rational/balanced person actually gives a fuck about.
How about you let them figure out what they want to do on their own, or encourage them to do something. Pushing your agenda on your child is a sure fire way to just loose a child.
If he/she is not into it right now, they probably won't ever be. That might change at some point in the future, but a 14 year old kid is... A KID and wants to have fun, stop trying to treat them like an adult.
We define odd as anything we haven't witnessed directly before.
Global warming is a prime example. Theres plenty of scientific evidence that we're in just another normal cycle and the heat isn't even close to being abnormal, but since we've never actually witnessed them directly, certain groups of people freak out and think the end of the world is near.
Burning down all the forests just deals with the leaf inflation problem. Then you end up needing to send all your useless robots off to make planetary toupees.
For reference, I work for a company that used to sell cheapass flash devices from the lowest chinese vendor that could be found. Every failure we ever came across could be fixed with a reflow with the exceptions to that being when it was obvious the manufacturing process damaged the board itself.
You may have a problem on an SD card doing reflow with an oven, hot air is probably your only hope.
They have bad joints, use an air reflow or a reflow oven and you'll probably be rather happy with the card.
You can also probably flex the board in the right way to get contact and get your data off as well, but you're going to want to reflow it to get any sort of long term use.
Tests to figure out which DNS servers you should use from a speed perspective mostly, but does all sorts of neat checks for DNS hijacking like OpenDNS does.
Its bad enough to do NXDOMAIN hijacking, but flat out stealing google traffic and running it threw their own servers is just bullshit.
Selecting the close name servers doesn't mean those DNS servers are returning the closest servers for the names you're looking up.
Short of some sort of hijacking or really shitty service you should be using your ISPs name servers. Even on slashdot, its highly unlikely that you really do no more than the admins upstream.
Yes, 15 or 20 slashdot readers do, but the rest of you are just armchair admins who really don't know what your doing regardless of how many forums you've read.
So you want to explain why you hijack google traffic?
Why does www.google.com CNAME to google.navigation.opendns.com... which is in your address space and apparently just passes through to the real google servers?
content from your server will receive it much more slowly than the guy who lives in Vegas.
Not likely. Theres more latency sure, and australia has shitty connections to the rest of the world, but outside that, there really isn't a bandwidth limitation on the backbone, just latency issues, which TCP handles just fine.
So once you've connected to the server, its then going to have to redirect you somewhere else since its only once you connect that it gets your IP so it can figure out if you need to be directed.
DNS is the step before that, so you can do it one stage earlier.
Or your app has to have some list of ip ranges so it knows where its at and then where to connect to, which means you have to keep the client list up to date since ips move across the nation wildly. The IP I had 2 months ago is no being used in Texas, thats about 1500 miles aware from where I am.
So the client is going to be constantly trying to update its list of address ranges so then it can figure out which server to connect to, so you've added a metric fuckton of traffic and complexity to the client... when you can simply handle it at the DNS level.
DNS is pretty much the first and easest to manage portion of the network chain, as long as everyone plays by the rules. Problem is, ISPs haven't been playing by the rules for years.
Its slow, it requires you to opt out of its crappy web redirects, it redirects google on occasion to the wrong servers.
I've got a list about 8 miles long that explains while using OpenDNS is an absolutely retarded idea unless you have absolutely no other choice, which of course you do.
Who's going to cut off trade to the West? China certain ins't going to loose that cash cow and American can't suddenly stand to have no manufacturing plants for their cheap equipment.
Government embargo countries that don't mean anything to them, like cuba. They don't embargo countries which are required for their economy to work.
How about not putting features in a DOCUMENT format that aren't needed.?
If they want to make PDF do everything that HTML will they'll quickly find people will just send self contained HTML files instead. Why this isn't done now is simply because no one has bothered to make an HTML editor that doesn't fucking suck.
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The 'rtf' standard is different in every single Microsoft (its creator) application that supports it.
Its not actually a standard more like a collection of formats that closely resemble each other but aren't actually the same in subtle ways that you'll never figure out.
You do realize pretty much every computer on the planet has components from Foxconn in it ... right?
I guaranty you that the computer you used to post has components they make in it.
Unless you plan on no longer using a car, your PC, probably your TV and several other devices, you won't be doing a damn thing to 'stop the problem'.
The swimming thing is a well known and documented joke. It was removed because someone started threatening them about some stupid jackass trying it as I recall.
Stop paying them. If you aren't paying them then, well, you get what you pay for, its pretty simple really.
Why do you think you're entitled to something for nothing? Why do you think Google should even bother to respond to you? Why do they owe you anything?
If you're a paying customer, stop paying and move your services elsewhere.
Heard of robots.txt? Google has.
Wow, you're completely out of touch with reality aren't you?
I know at least 5 people that switched from their iPhone to an Android device .... I don't think any of the lasted for a month before going back to their iPhones. So yes, some people switched, and then regret it fairly soon after.
Android doesn't actually offer any advantage over the iPhone that really matters and it has several disadvantages. Slashdot rants and raves over open and free and blah blah blah, but when it comes right down to it the only people ranting about 'free' are too cheap or poor to buy either so they just rant and don't actually matter. Then there are the techies that are happy to use an inferior product just so they can 'stick it to the man' ... unfortunately the man doesn't give a shit about all 8 of those people.
You guys can sit around and circle jerk to android all day long, but I've yet to meet a person who actually thought it was great and not one person can provide an actual advantage android has to the iphone other than 'OMG CLOSED APP STORE OMGZ!@$!@%' which no rational/balanced person actually gives a fuck about.
Yes, stealing is always a better idea than actually paying.
You're an idiot.
How about you let them figure out what they want to do on their own, or encourage them to do something. Pushing your agenda on your child is a sure fire way to just loose a child.
If he/she is not into it right now, they probably won't ever be. That might change at some point in the future, but a 14 year old kid is ... A KID and wants to have fun, stop trying to treat them like an adult.
We define odd as anything we haven't witnessed directly before.
Global warming is a prime example. Theres plenty of scientific evidence that we're in just another normal cycle and the heat isn't even close to being abnormal, but since we've never actually witnessed them directly, certain groups of people freak out and think the end of the world is near.
Burning down all the forests just deals with the leaf inflation problem. Then you end up needing to send all your useless robots off to make planetary toupees.
For reference, I work for a company that used to sell cheapass flash devices from the lowest chinese vendor that could be found. Every failure we ever came across could be fixed with a reflow with the exceptions to that being when it was obvious the manufacturing process damaged the board itself.
You may have a problem on an SD card doing reflow with an oven, hot air is probably your only hope.
They have bad joints, use an air reflow or a reflow oven and you'll probably be rather happy with the card.
You can also probably flex the board in the right way to get contact and get your data off as well, but you're going to want to reflow it to get any sort of long term use.
If anyone would like to see this for themselves on any servers they use, check out namebench
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
Tests to figure out which DNS servers you should use from a speed perspective mostly, but does all sorts of neat checks for DNS hijacking like OpenDNS does.
Its bad enough to do NXDOMAIN hijacking, but flat out stealing google traffic and running it threw their own servers is just bullshit.
Selecting the close name servers doesn't mean those DNS servers are returning the closest servers for the names you're looking up.
Short of some sort of hijacking or really shitty service you should be using your ISPs name servers. Even on slashdot, its highly unlikely that you really do no more than the admins upstream.
Yes, 15 or 20 slashdot readers do, but the rest of you are just armchair admins who really don't know what your doing regardless of how many forums you've read.
Since you're here ...
So you want to explain why you hijack google traffic?
Why does www.google.com CNAME to google.navigation.opendns.com ... which is in your address space and apparently just passes through to the real google servers?
Not likely. Theres more latency sure, and australia has shitty connections to the rest of the world, but outside that, there really isn't a bandwidth limitation on the backbone, just latency issues, which TCP handles just fine.
You are also one of the guys who claims its going to collapse under its own weight next year too I'm sure.
If you think the limited amount of bandwidth is the issue than you really don't know anything about what the backbones are capable of.
Just because your local ISP is too cheap to upgrade its circuits to fill its own needs doesn't mean the internet is 'out of bandwidth'
So once you've connected to the server, its then going to have to redirect you somewhere else since its only once you connect that it gets your IP so it can figure out if you need to be directed.
DNS is the step before that, so you can do it one stage earlier.
Or your app has to have some list of ip ranges so it knows where its at and then where to connect to, which means you have to keep the client list up to date since ips move across the nation wildly. The IP I had 2 months ago is no being used in Texas, thats about 1500 miles aware from where I am.
So the client is going to be constantly trying to update its list of address ranges so then it can figure out which server to connect to, so you've added a metric fuckton of traffic and complexity to the client ... when you can simply handle it at the DNS level.
DNS is pretty much the first and easest to manage portion of the network chain, as long as everyone plays by the rules. Problem is, ISPs haven't been playing by the rules for years.
Its slow, it requires you to opt out of its crappy web redirects, it redirects google on occasion to the wrong servers.
I've got a list about 8 miles long that explains while using OpenDNS is an absolutely retarded idea unless you have absolutely no other choice, which of course you do.
Who's going to cut off trade to the West? China certain ins't going to loose that cash cow and American can't suddenly stand to have no manufacturing plants for their cheap equipment.
Government embargo countries that don't mean anything to them, like cuba. They don't embargo countries which are required for their economy to work.
Yea, because someone bought the rights to do so first. Its not rocket science.
you expected nothing to happen? Are you stupid?
How about hireing some developers with a clue.
How about not putting features in a DOCUMENT format that aren't needed.?
If they want to make PDF do everything that HTML will they'll quickly find people will just send self contained HTML files instead. Why this isn't done now is simply because no one has bothered to make an HTML editor that doesn't fucking suck.
Thats what they now call DRM.