It's true that there is quite a bit of "noise" still... we shall see what the dry ink says on Tuesday.
Having said that in the part of the agreement concerning editable documents, it says that:
4. Starting 1st of April 2011, govermental institutions will be required to send and receive documents in formats covered by the list mentioned in section 2 including ODF. To ensure that everyone, regardless of platform, have access to editable documents published on the websites of state authorities, the documents must be in ODF and other document formats that are listed.
So unless they rephrase this agreement, what it says here is that if you're an official, you must publish in ODF and optionally in additional formats in accordance to "The List".
As for "The List" itself:
The following principles must be fulfilled before a standard can be included on the list. The standard must be:
* Fully documented and publicly available;
* Freely implementable without economical, political or legal limitations on implementation and use;
* Approved by an internationally recognized standards organisation such as ISO, and standardized and maintained in an open forum through an open process;
* It must be demonstrable that the standard can be directly implemented by anyone in its entirety on multiple platforms;
* Interoperable within the functionality parameters with the other standards on the list
Take special note of the last point — what is interesting is that initially, ODF is the only standard on the list, so what this means is that OOXML cannot make the cut unless it "plays well" with ODF.
There is an additional provision that documents that are not intended for editing must be published in PDF/A-1 format.
Um, not *having* to spend money in commercial software licenses?
It's the same old argument... why insist on having citizens pay for software so they can read official documents?
* If you force a free format, you can use any software you like -- including the same commercial software you've been using for years. * But, if you force a commercial format, there is NO guarantee (almost like the opposite) that you can use any software you like -- even non-commercial.
Yeah, I know. My phone doesn't have a physical keyboard, either. You'd think that on such an open system, it would be a matter of customising an xml-based keyboard layout file, but evidently it's much more complicated.
Caveat: I've only seen one short clip on youtube, but...
For the first time, I was actually disappointed by his performance.
I mean, I'm no Mac addict by a long shot (I gave away my last Mac, a Colour Classic) but this guy is legendary for his seriously effective presentation style. Usually, it's because he has the gadget to back it up, and it'll sell like hotcakes for a reason.
But this? Really, it lacks the supreme innovation that we're used to seeing (but which, I must grant, is bound to be a bitch to keep having to live up to). When he said, "You can view a *whole* web page!!1!" it sounded like a throwback to the (then and now) horrible computer commercials of the 80s, and so out of character for him.
I'm not saying he or Apple is "over the hill", but this is out of the ordinary, and not in a good way.
I'm totally with you on all of your points -- except "2. Go RWD". Are you mad!? Whatever happened to your opening statement of SAAB being all about "performance-oriented driving and safety"?No sir, rear-wheel drive is only for sports and race cars, as well as for American cars, Mercedes and BMW (who seem to think that all their cars are sports cars?). XWD is quite another matter, of course.
I'm very glad to see SAAB once again in the hands of a manufacturer that actually loves cars (rather than only their bottom line). Although, I'm so glad that I'm not a SAAB employee, this constant change of ownership cannot be good for morale.
That, as well as queuing up outside of a train door so passengers can actually disembark. A very simple problem that seems to confound a surprisingly large fraction of European public transport consumers.
If we all did as the Japanese, a lot of our social situations would be more efficient. But slightly more cramped.
My own theory on this particular rule is that it's made by people who are not annoyed by the half-conversation per se, but rather that they're the kind of person who likes to eavesdrop, and eavesdropping on half a conversation just isn't as entertaining.
...the fraction of a fraction who really think(!) that whatever is being peddled will actually work, and make a transaction... thus making spam profitable and continuing the supreme obnoxiousness that it is.
They would be better off allowing us to keep one $EcúR3 password for the duration of employment really.
Not really, no. If someone gets hold of your password, that person is able to access your systems potentially without you detecting it until you change your password.
The quality of the password doesn't matter, and that's why even digital signatures have a given life span. It's more a matter of damage control than anything else. The side-effect that this tends to lower the overall password quality points more to the user employing a poor password construction strategy.
Of course, if the attacker changes your password or makes other obvious changes, then that's a different game. I'm talking about the surreptitious scenario.
I do not want a single number, because I do not have a single identity.
I do not want my work to call me on my personal phone, so they don't have that number. But my job naturally requires some amount of phone work, so they all have *that* number. Makes sense, right?
As I said elsewhere in this thread, cheaters certainly spoil everybody else's fun and need to be booted as fast and as far as possible, no argument there. But that's not what I meant. Cheating is a misfeature of the application (the game) which it certainly needs to be secure enough to withstand.
My point was rather that the *platform* that serves the application is becoming more open. It might even become common some day for games to function *across* vendors (analogous to how a Mac and a PC player can play Battlefield against each other).
By the way, if you say that "[in PSN] the online cheating ratio is very low" then evidently "locked down" does not equal "cheat proof".
Cheaters certainly spoil everybody else's fun and need to be booted as fast and as far as possible, no argument there. But that's not what I meant. Cheating is a misfeature of the application (the game) which it certainly needs to be secure enough to withstand.
My point was rather that the *platform* that serves the application is becoming more open. It might even become common some day for games to function *across* vendors (analogous to how a Mac and a PC player can play Battlefield against each other).
But seriously, this is essentially harvesting energy that's going to waste. Since we're using it to turn turbines and extract energy out of it, technically, it ought to result in a net cooling of the air rather than a heating
Yes, until you consider that they are probably going to do something to that greenhouse to maximise its heat production (such as painting the entire ground area black or somesuch), so it's not going to be the same as an equal area of varied nature.
I've long thought that consoles could be much better (from a user standpoint) if they were more open.
One example of this is the recent debacle with servers arguably shutting down "too soon" compared to other game types that aren't susceptible to that issue. Another example is that some people have several different consoles in order to play their favourite games and/or with their friends; this is of course a sales strategy for the vendors but not really in the interest of the consumer.
This news, of Sony expanding their console's reach essentially to outside the domain of the console itself, is good news for consumers: it shows that the boundaries are becoming hazy -- and you can't maintain strict lockdown on blurry borders. Ultimately, this ends up providing more choice for the user.
Now sadly, "more user choice" is not equal to "more user freedom" -- especially since this news is coming from Sony, peddlers of lockdownware above and beyond the call of duty. But still, if they are doing it, the other vendors are bound to follow.
They (vested interest groups) have been saying that for a decade now.... guess what, we haven't run out yet.
No, but still-untapped address pools are becoming harder and harder to access, needing ever longer pipes to reach them. Eventually, the return on investment is just going to be too small to be worth it.</bad analogy>
The YouTube gameplay videos shows plenty of inane jumps (many meters long or onto lamp-posts and roof areas) and sliding many meters on one's knees *around corners*. And the Quake-style cliché two-players-circling-while-unloading-clip-after-clip.
Too bad. Thanks, though!
I'd try America's Army if it wasn't so... propagandistic, I guess.
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It's true that there is quite a bit of "noise" still ... we shall see what the dry ink says on Tuesday.
Having said that in the part of the agreement concerning editable documents, it says that:
4. Starting 1st of April 2011, govermental institutions will be required to send and receive documents in formats covered by the list mentioned in section 2 including ODF. To ensure that everyone, regardless of platform, have access to editable documents published on the websites of state authorities, the documents must be in ODF and other document formats that are listed.
So unless they rephrase this agreement, what it says here is that if you're an official, you must publish in ODF and optionally in additional formats in accordance to "The List".
As for "The List" itself:
The following principles must be fulfilled before a standard can be included on the list. The standard must be:
* Fully documented and publicly available;
* Freely implementable without economical, political or legal limitations on implementation and use;
* Approved by an internationally recognized standards organisation such as ISO, and standardized and maintained in an open forum through an open process;
* It must be demonstrable that the standard can be directly implemented by anyone in its entirety on multiple platforms;
* Interoperable within the functionality parameters with the other standards on the list
Take special note of the last point — what is interesting is that initially, ODF is the only standard on the list, so what this means is that OOXML cannot make the cut unless it "plays well" with ODF.
There is an additional provision that documents that are not intended for editing must be published in PDF/A-1 format.
Um, not *having* to spend money in commercial software licenses?
It's the same old argument ... why insist on having citizens pay for software so they can read official documents?
* If you force a free format, you can use any software you like -- including the same commercial software you've been using for years.
* But, if you force a commercial format, there is NO guarantee (almost like the opposite) that you can use any software you like -- even non-commercial.
Space Invaders, Monopoly, ... oh my.
http://gamesexcel.com/games-excel-vba.html
*smacks forehead* What a find, why didn't I come up with that myself (I browse on AndroLib all the time...)! I have to try that out.
Thanks!
Yeah, I know. My phone doesn't have a physical keyboard, either. You'd think that on such an open system, it would be a matter of customising an xml-based keyboard layout file, but evidently it's much more complicated.
Yes well then quit being such a jerk with your oh-so-special so-called "superior" keyboard, you dweeb! ;-)
(...on a completely unrelated note, I'm still looking for a Norwegian variant (Dvorak with æøå caps) for my Android phone...)
Caveat: I've only seen one short clip on youtube, but...
For the first time, I was actually disappointed by his performance.
I mean, I'm no Mac addict by a long shot (I gave away my last Mac, a Colour Classic) but this guy is legendary for his seriously effective presentation style. Usually, it's because he has the gadget to back it up, and it'll sell like hotcakes for a reason.
But this? Really, it lacks the supreme innovation that we're used to seeing (but which, I must grant, is bound to be a bitch to keep having to live up to). When he said, "You can view a *whole* web page!!1!" it sounded like a throwback to the (then and now) horrible computer commercials of the 80s, and so out of character for him.
I'm not saying he or Apple is "over the hill", but this is out of the ordinary, and not in a good way.
slate
verb 1. cover (a roof) with slates. 2 Brit. informal criticize severely. 3 chiefly N. Amer. schedule; plan.
No highlighting required, I trust.
Same situation on Android's "YouTube" application, btw.
I'm totally with you on all of your points -- except "2. Go RWD".
Are you mad!? Whatever happened to your opening statement of SAAB being all about "performance-oriented driving and safety"?No sir, rear-wheel drive is only for sports and race cars, as well as for American cars, Mercedes and BMW (who seem to think that all their cars are sports cars?). XWD is quite another matter, of course.
I'm very glad to see SAAB once again in the hands of a manufacturer that actually loves cars (rather than only their bottom line). Although, I'm so glad that I'm not a SAAB employee, this constant change of ownership cannot be good for morale.
I'm guessing he's referring to SAAB Cross Wheel Drive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_XWD
Japan seems to have this issue solved.
That, as well as queuing up outside of a train door so passengers can actually disembark. A very simple problem that seems to confound a surprisingly large fraction of European public transport consumers.
If we all did as the Japanese, a lot of our social situations would be more efficient. But slightly more cramped.
My own theory on this particular rule is that it's made by people who are not annoyed by the half-conversation per se, but rather that they're the kind of person who likes to eavesdrop, and eavesdropping on half a conversation just isn't as entertaining.
...the fraction of a fraction who really think(!) that whatever is being peddled will actually work, and make a transaction ... thus making spam profitable and continuing the supreme obnoxiousness that it is.
I'm pretty sure it will run BSD, so I'm guessing it can run Linux.
They would be better off allowing us to keep one $EcúR3 password for the duration of employment really.
Not really, no. If someone gets hold of your password, that person is able to access your systems potentially without you detecting it until you change your password.
The quality of the password doesn't matter, and that's why even digital signatures have a given life span. It's more a matter of damage control than anything else. The side-effect that this tends to lower the overall password quality points more to the user employing a poor password construction strategy.
Of course, if the attacker changes your password or makes other obvious changes, then that's a different game. I'm talking about the surreptitious scenario.
I misread that statement, something with a swapped "r" and "o", and an "n" instead of the "m" ... gawd I'm reading too much Slashdot.
That, or a smartbomb(several kilometer range might cause some collateral damage in a corporate office though).
You obviously have no idea how dense those management types can be.
I do not want a single number, because I do not have a single identity.
I do not want my work to call me on my personal phone, so they don't have that number. But my job naturally requires some amount of phone work, so they all have *that* number. Makes sense, right?
As I said elsewhere in this thread, cheaters certainly spoil everybody else's fun and need to be booted as fast and as far as possible, no argument there. But that's not what I meant. Cheating is a misfeature of the application (the game) which it certainly needs to be secure enough to withstand.
My point was rather that the *platform* that serves the application is becoming more open. It might even become common some day for games to function *across* vendors (analogous to how a Mac and a PC player can play Battlefield against each other).
By the way, if you say that "[in PSN] the online cheating ratio is very low" then evidently "locked down" does not equal "cheat proof".
Cheaters certainly spoil everybody else's fun and need to be booted as fast and as far as possible, no argument there. But that's not what I meant. Cheating is a misfeature of the application (the game) which it certainly needs to be secure enough to withstand.
My point was rather that the *platform* that serves the application is becoming more open. It might even become common some day for games to function *across* vendors (analogous to how a Mac and a PC player can play Battlefield against each other).
But seriously, this is essentially harvesting energy that's going to waste. Since we're using it to turn turbines and extract energy out of it, technically, it ought to result in a net cooling of the air rather than a heating
Yes, until you consider that they are probably going to do something to that greenhouse to maximise its heat production (such as painting the entire ground area black or somesuch), so it's not going to be the same as an equal area of varied nature.
I've long thought that consoles could be much better (from a user standpoint) if they were more open.
One example of this is the recent debacle with servers arguably shutting down "too soon" compared to other game types that aren't susceptible to that issue. Another example is that some people have several different consoles in order to play their favourite games and/or with their friends; this is of course a sales strategy for the vendors but not really in the interest of the consumer.
This news, of Sony expanding their console's reach essentially to outside the domain of the console itself, is good news for consumers: it shows that the boundaries are becoming hazy -- and you can't maintain strict lockdown on blurry borders. Ultimately, this ends up providing more choice for the user.
Now sadly, "more user choice" is not equal to "more user freedom" -- especially since this news is coming from Sony, peddlers of lockdownware above and beyond the call of duty. But still, if they are doing it, the other vendors are bound to follow.
Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses
They (vested interest groups) have been saying that for a decade now.... guess what, we haven't run out yet.
No, but still-untapped address pools are becoming harder and harder to access, needing ever longer pipes to reach them. Eventually, the return on investment is just going to be too small to be worth it.</bad analogy>
The YouTube gameplay videos shows plenty of inane jumps (many meters long or onto lamp-posts and roof areas) and sliding many meters on one's knees *around corners*. And the Quake-style cliché two-players-circling-while-unloading-clip-after-clip.
Too bad. Thanks, though!
I'd try America's Army if it wasn't so ... propagandistic, I guess.