Most criticisms of OOXML deal with the fact that it is a hastily implemented pile of incomprehensible rubbish that no-one in the world will ever implement correctly and that Microsoft is allowed to change at will without consultation. However, this actually utterly misses the point of the problem of OOXML, and the reason why MS is so opposed to ODF.
The issue is that ODF forbids you from embracing and extending while OOXML allows you to. This means that if you've got an ODF document and an ODF reader, you can read the document. This is not true for OOXML as anyone (MS) is allowed to put random rubbish in the middle of the document, that a different application might not understand.
MS criticises ODF for missing features, but never make clear that this 'problem' cannot be fixed by adding features; they are in fact criticising ODF for standardising what constitutes a valid ODF document.
...seems to be largely because the record labels keep it all. If a band sells a CD, the record company gets most of the money. If they sell a t-shirt, they've bought the shirt wholesale and keep the rest.
Some friends of mine were touring as the support act with a largeish (reformed '80s) band recently. The main band wasn't selling albums at the gigs, as the wholesale price the record company wanted for the CDs was too high. My friends were making quite good money, as they were unsigned so just had to pay the CD making factory.
The fact that a content author might chose not to make use of the DRM is irrelevant. The issue Gutmann complains about is that the whole design is complicated to allow for the possibility that they might use it.
Here in backwards Britain, you vote by putting a cross on a bit of paper, which you then put in the ballot box. When the polls close at 10pm, all the boxes are taken to the town hall and hand counted. The record for a complete count is 42 minutes, including getting all the ballot boxes to the town hall. It seems to work perfecly well. We normally know who's won nationwide by 4 or 5am, some close seats having had a few recounts in that time.
We do use computer-read ballots like the Massachusets system for elections with more complex electoral systems, but that's how general elections work.
I know of a charity that works with (mostly christian) organisations in the west bank. Their usual way of getting money to their partners is to fly into Israel with a big bundle of money. Otherwise it tends to get massively delayed by US banks.
Current scramjets are very small pilotless machines that fail half the time, don't work below mach 5 and are crashed on landing. It seems quite a lot of work needs to be dont to make a commercial scramjet. 2025 seems ambitious for getting it done.
How do they intend to get the thing started? Can scramjets work at slower speeds with more development? Will they strap a load of booster rockets on the back?
Well, it can, but you need to re-compile the windows kernel with a special patch that Xen can't give you. Since you probably don't have the source to the Windows kernel, this is totally theoretical. This may change when CPUs have proper support for virtualisation (assuming you have a new CPU)
Well I half-remember reading that Avalon (which I think is now Areo) would be available as a download for XP. I don't know if that was XP Home or Pro. But it's possible that the difference is that XP Home runs Aero, while Vista Home Basic doesn't.
It's possible that Home Basic might cost less, but that seems a bit un-microsoft.
I read the summary and assumed it was a motorbike, but no. It's an ordinary pedal bike with a rocket on the back. And ordinary pedal bike brakes as far as I can see from the picture. Now call me boring, but I want better brakes before I attempt to ride a pedal bike that fast.
The big problem with the Turion is that there don't seem to be very many of them out there. Especialy the really low power Turion MT models. I'm guessing that AMD prefers to make higher-profit Opterons on their limited fab capacity, and who can blame them, but other theories would be evil Intel plots or a yield problem that AMD are successfuly keeping secret. Anyone know why?
I have an Acer Ferrari 4000, with a Turion ML and it's VERY FAST. A lot faster than friend's Pentium M machines. OK, the core duo (a processor that isn't released yet) is faster than my 6 month old computer, but is that suprising. AMD will have dual-core Turions soon. It has a decent battery life, but achieves this with what is frankly quite a heavy battery. The MTs should be a lot better though. If I could buy one.
I hate the fact that it's impossible to buy a keyboard without loads of useless extra keys. Now the mice designers are at it too. Excuse me while I rush off to stockpile sensible mice...
The winner will be the one that has the most DVDs available for it. How are people going to decide which format to release DVDs in? Who is going to make that decision?
It was quite obvious that that was a simple typo and I obviously meant 'use'. You're unjustly slandering me by suggesting that I'll randomly sue people for no good reason, and I have no choice but to take you to court to clear my name.
The Download Statusbar extension resolves issue 2. I sue it and it works very well.
But we're falling into the classic Open-Source problem...sure that's easy you just have to install this, configure that and whisgoplify your thawasthwuts and it'll work the way it should have done in the first place.
In order to work out the best OS for you, you need to look at the details of your organisation instead of blindly believing articles by the Yankee group to find out what's the 'no-one ever got fired for buying...' option.
In general, the free software movement has taken the attitude that it's quite friendly about violations; remove the GPL code or release the source, but no hassle about punitive damages and stuff like that. Since they've stopped distributing the linux personality bit, they're now clean so it's all over. Now while I'd love to see SCO get in any trouble that's available, I think it's important that the community sticks to this approach, even with SCO. Doing anything else will make corporate lawyer types very nervous about touching ANY open-source software, even using GPL software in allowed ways.
The reason why this product is, er, of rather limited use is because you'll get better performance if you don't put a SATA interface between your memory and the processor for no good reason. Just put your 'Swap RAM' into the motherboard. If you don't load that many apps, the spare memory will get used for cacheing all your recently used files and you get even faster load times. Initial boot isn't as fast as all the data does have to come off the disk to start with, so all you're really gaining here is a faster boot.
OK. Some motherboards don't have space for 4GB more RAM, but if you spend $150 more than usual, they probably do.
Especialy if you don't care about security.
You don't have my key. If you get a signed message purporting from me, you have no way of telling if that was actually my key. You need an easy way of finding out my key. Also, srhawrtrdh12532@hotmail.com has to be somehow be prevented from getting a valid key on the grounds that he doesn't exist. (Yes. I know; keyservers and web of trust and so on and so forth. I think you'll find that incredibly few people use PGP properly. Very few get anyone to sign their key. Very very few have enough people signing their key to help build a genuine web. Almost no-one properly checks the identity of the sender and the key before trusting the key)
The current info seems to be 1 near Liverpool Street (people leaving via Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East and Moorgate (There may have been a semi-related collision between 2 trains here too), 1 between Kings X and Russell Square, and one by Edgeware Road (that's the subsurface edgeware road, I think) Then there was 1 bomb on a bus by Tavistock Square, rumoured to be a suicide attack. 2 confirmed deaths at Liverpool Street (but no info for ages), 10 deaths reported from the bus (unofficial but reliable source; someone from the British Medical Association who helped at the scene) and no accurate numbers from the other 2 sites. 200-odd people in hospital in total.
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This fails to deal with the main problem.
Most criticisms of OOXML deal with the fact that it is a hastily implemented pile of incomprehensible rubbish that no-one in the world will ever implement correctly and that Microsoft is allowed to change at will without consultation. However, this actually utterly misses the point of the problem of OOXML, and the reason why MS is so opposed to ODF.
The issue is that ODF forbids you from embracing and extending while OOXML allows you to. This means that if you've got an ODF document and an ODF reader, you can read the document. This is not true for OOXML as anyone (MS) is allowed to put random rubbish in the middle of the document, that a different application might not understand.
MS criticises ODF for missing features, but never make clear that this 'problem' cannot be fixed by adding features; they are in fact criticising ODF for standardising what constitutes a valid ODF document.
As is obvious from numerous movies - it makes them look more evil
...seems to be largely because the record labels keep it all. If a band sells a CD, the record company gets most of the money. If they sell a t-shirt, they've bought the shirt wholesale and keep the rest.
Some friends of mine were touring as the support act with a largeish (reformed '80s) band recently. The main band wasn't selling albums at the gigs, as the wholesale price the record company wanted for the CDs was too high. My friends were making quite good money, as they were unsigned so just had to pay the CD making factory.
The fact that a content author might chose not to make use of the DRM is irrelevant. The issue Gutmann complains about is that the whole design is complicated to allow for the possibility that they might use it.
I sometimes get the impression that Tamil Nadu would love to harm the Kanatakan economy. (That's the state whose capital is Bangalore).
Here in backwards Britain, you vote by putting a cross on a bit of paper, which you then put in the ballot box. When the polls close at 10pm, all the boxes are taken to the town hall and hand counted. The record for a complete count is 42 minutes, including getting all the ballot boxes to the town hall. It seems to work perfecly well. We normally know who's won nationwide by 4 or 5am, some close seats having had a few recounts in that time.
We do use computer-read ballots like the Massachusets system for elections with more complex electoral systems, but that's how general elections work.
I'm sure that could be done, but it would probably add too much weight.
Weight which people who use 2nd hand ICBMs as launch veichles can't afford.
I know of a charity that works with (mostly christian) organisations in the west bank. Their usual way of getting money to their partners is to fly into Israel with a big bundle of money. Otherwise it tends to get massively delayed by US banks.
Current scramjets are very small pilotless machines that fail half the time, don't work below mach 5 and are crashed on landing. It seems quite a lot of work needs to be dont to make a commercial scramjet. 2025 seems ambitious for getting it done.
How do they intend to get the thing started? Can scramjets work at slower speeds with more development? Will they strap a load of booster rockets on the back?
I'd failed to notice that Vanderpool CPUs were available.
I don't think Xen can currently run Windows.
Well, it can, but you need to re-compile the windows kernel with a special patch that Xen can't give you. Since you probably don't have the source to the Windows kernel, this is totally theoretical. This may change when CPUs have proper support for virtualisation (assuming you have a new CPU)
Well I half-remember reading that Avalon (which I think is now Areo) would be available as a download for XP. I don't know if that was XP Home or Pro. But it's possible that the difference is that XP Home runs Aero, while Vista Home Basic doesn't.
It's possible that Home Basic might cost less, but that seems a bit un-microsoft.
I read the summary and assumed it was a motorbike, but no. It's an ordinary pedal bike with a rocket on the back. And ordinary pedal bike brakes as far as I can see from the picture. Now call me boring, but I want better brakes before I attempt to ride a pedal bike that fast.
The big problem with the Turion is that there don't seem to be very many of them out there. Especialy the really low power Turion MT models. I'm guessing that AMD prefers to make higher-profit Opterons on their limited fab capacity, and who can blame them, but other theories would be evil Intel plots or a yield problem that AMD are successfuly keeping secret. Anyone know why?
I have an Acer Ferrari 4000, with a Turion ML and it's VERY FAST. A lot faster than friend's Pentium M machines. OK, the core duo (a processor that isn't released yet) is faster than my 6 month old computer, but is that suprising. AMD will have dual-core Turions soon. It has a decent battery life, but achieves this with what is frankly quite a heavy battery. The MTs should be a lot better though. If I could buy one.
I hate the fact that it's impossible to buy a keyboard without loads of useless extra keys. Now the mice designers are at it too. Excuse me while I rush off to stockpile sensible mice...
(Yes I am typing this on an IBM Model M keyboard)
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Do that every time you need to make a decision. Clear all furniture out of the way first.
The winner will be the one that has the most DVDs available for it. How are people going to decide which format to release DVDs in? Who is going to make that decision?
It was quite obvious that that was a simple typo and I obviously meant 'use'. You're unjustly slandering me by suggesting that I'll randomly sue people for no good reason, and I have no choice but to take you to court to clear my name.
The Download Statusbar extension resolves issue 2. I sue it and it works very well.
But we're falling into the classic Open-Source problem...sure that's easy you just have to install this, configure that and whisgoplify your thawasthwuts and it'll work the way it should have done in the first place.
In order to work out the best OS for you, you need to look at the details of your organisation instead of blindly believing articles by the Yankee group to find out what's the 'no-one ever got fired for buying...' option.
I say that's good advice.
In general, the free software movement has taken the attitude that it's quite friendly about violations; remove the GPL code or release the source, but no hassle about punitive damages and stuff like that. Since they've stopped distributing the linux personality bit, they're now clean so it's all over. Now while I'd love to see SCO get in any trouble that's available, I think it's important that the community sticks to this approach, even with SCO. Doing anything else will make corporate lawyer types very nervous about touching ANY open-source software, even using GPL software in allowed ways.
The reason why this product is, er, of rather limited use is because you'll get better performance if you don't put a SATA interface between your memory and the processor for no good reason. Just put your 'Swap RAM' into the motherboard. If you don't load that many apps, the spare memory will get used for cacheing all your recently used files and you get even faster load times. Initial boot isn't as fast as all the data does have to come off the disk to start with, so all you're really gaining here is a faster boot.
OK. Some motherboards don't have space for 4GB more RAM, but if you spend $150 more than usual, they probably do.
Especialy if you don't care about security.
You don't have my key. If you get a signed message purporting from me, you have no way of telling if that was actually my key. You need an easy way of finding out my key. Also, srhawrtrdh12532@hotmail.com has to be somehow be prevented from getting a valid key on the grounds that he doesn't exist. (Yes. I know; keyservers and web of trust and so on and so forth. I think you'll find that incredibly few people use PGP properly. Very few get anyone to sign their key. Very very few have enough people signing their key to help build a genuine web. Almost no-one properly checks the identity of the sender and the key before trusting the key)
1. Take 3lb coffee beans and 1 lb Pasta
2. ???
3. Eat the tasty dish you prepared in stage 2.
3. PROFIT!
The current info seems to be 1 near Liverpool Street (people leaving via Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East and Moorgate (There may have been a semi-related collision between 2 trains here too), 1 between Kings X and Russell Square, and one by Edgeware Road (that's the subsurface edgeware road, I think) Then there was 1 bomb on a bus by Tavistock Square, rumoured to be a suicide attack. 2 confirmed deaths at Liverpool Street (but no info for ages), 10 deaths reported from the bus (unofficial but reliable source; someone from the British Medical Association who helped at the scene) and no accurate numbers from the other 2 sites. 200-odd people in hospital in total.