The theory is that you can either hibernate or standby the machine and bring it up lightning fast. Hibernate actually shuts the entire machine off and restores when you boot it back up so until the machine starts acting wonky and needs an OS restart, there's no reason to do a full shutdown.
It's just formatting stuff that's actually considered deprecated and inappropriate for new documents. It's in the spec because if you come across them in converted Office documents you might want to either ignore them or tweak rendering a bit to make it at least not ugly.
If they weren't in the spec, it wouldn't be the complete OOXML spec used by by Office '07.
Have you read it? It's a monster spec and the only thing that has come out of it is some inconsistencies and use of non-standard formats for things like dates. I've never heard of any claim that it's wasn't complete before.
As opposed to ODF with a bunch of backers with potentially unknown IP claims, admittedly incomplete spec and a patent grant only valid for versions of the specifications that are blessed by Sun Microsystems... which means that Sun gets all the say they want or there will be NO ODF revisions.
Once it becomes an ECMA standard, the specification belongs to ECMA and will not be controlled by MS. MS has been saying this all along ("It's now ours anymore, it's ECMA's"). They DO want it standardized since they worked on it for years even before ODF and it's the format for their product.
Vista Basic appears to run fine on 512MB even with some shared for onboard graphics. I know, I was blown away that it ran but even third party apps seemed to run without a hitch. It was even running with the better looking no-glass Aero theme fine.
Of course, other than the somewhat lax RAM and the onboard graphics, the machine was decently specced. The only thing that should happen is slow application startup and slow restore on apps that have been dormant for too long, but that happens even on my XP x64 box with 1 GB of RAM... I thinks its more of an issue with Windows memory management than with the quantity of RAM.
The RIAA used to send notices alleging infringement if the names of files looked *similar* to artist names or song names. There have been *professors* bitten when their name was *similar* to an artist's when they had recorded lectures posted in mp3 format.
Blue Pill has absolutely nothing to do with code signature forgery. Code signatures are encryption based so forging one would require that you obtain the signatory's key.
The date format is backwards compatible with Excel 2003 and earlier which represented dates in days since Jan 1 1900 and also considers 1900 a leap year (it was not) in order to remain compatible with Lotus 1-2-3 which incorrectly considered it a leap year.
The rest of the linked article is mostly bullshit. It isn't a problem with the XML format, it's a legacy limitation with Excel due to compatibility with the previous broken leader. Hash marks mean the date won't fit into the cell (increase the width of the column!).
A good behavior would be to use the old format for converted documents and give the option to switch over to ISO format and ISO format for all new documents.
I've never seen this behavior with XP SP2, XP x64, or Windows Vista. The scrollbars look and act perfectly native (they probably are since it makes no sense for IE7 not to use native scrollbars).
They were free on the Windows machine. They make their money by selling the hardware to people for the upgraded price when they fail to notice the *free* upgrades:O
So the FSF now wants to sue people for copyright infringement whether they've ever so much as been in possession of a copy of the material in question?
Welcome to the death of open source...
What does this GPLv3 mess mean for retailers? When GPLv3 makes its way into retail boxes, can I go in to a store and demand to be provided with a copy of all GPLv3 sources for every piece of GPLv3 code on their shelves? I was under the impression that copyright law prevented retailers from being required to abide by such licensing (the company that boxed it is the distributor)...
Apple proved they could handle a fork when they ended up surpassing the original by leaps and bounds. Apple actually suggested that KHTML be scrapped in favor of WebKit so I think they can handle it.
If it's a signature it's probably just attached or inserted somewhere in the file and doesn't actually alter the executable portion in any way so I don't know if a judge would buy "we can't reproduce the executable". This is a security feature to ensure that binaries don't get tainted. It's the same reason it would be stupid to require vendors give up their private keys since it would make the entire system useless.
The sooner everyone realizes RMS and the FSF don't give a fuck about security, developers and even users the better.
Except you cannot use the law (and the courts by extension) or "legal notices" to suppress protected speech. There needs to be fines on the order of a percentage of annual profits and jail time for executives for every incident of misuse of the courts and legal papers in such a manner.
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The theory is that you can either hibernate or standby the machine and bring it up lightning fast. Hibernate actually shuts the entire machine off and restores when you boot it back up so until the machine starts acting wonky and needs an OS restart, there's no reason to do a full shutdown.
It's just formatting stuff that's actually considered deprecated and inappropriate for new documents. It's in the spec because if you come across them in converted Office documents you might want to either ignore them or tweak rendering a bit to make it at least not ugly.
If they weren't in the spec, it wouldn't be the complete OOXML spec used by by Office '07.
Have you read it? It's a monster spec and the only thing that has come out of it is some inconsistencies and use of non-standard formats for things like dates. I've never heard of any claim that it's wasn't complete before.
As opposed to ODF with a bunch of backers with potentially unknown IP claims, admittedly incomplete spec and a patent grant only valid for versions of the specifications that are blessed by Sun Microsystems... which means that Sun gets all the say they want or there will be NO ODF revisions.
Once it becomes an ECMA standard, the specification belongs to ECMA and will not be controlled by MS. MS has been saying this all along ("It's now ours anymore, it's ECMA's"). They DO want it standardized since they worked on it for years even before ODF and it's the format for their product.
Vista Basic appears to run fine on 512MB even with some shared for onboard graphics. I know, I was blown away that it ran but even third party apps seemed to run without a hitch. It was even running with the better looking no-glass Aero theme fine.
Of course, other than the somewhat lax RAM and the onboard graphics, the machine was decently specced. The only thing that should happen is slow application startup and slow restore on apps that have been dormant for too long, but that happens even on my XP x64 box with 1 GB of RAM... I thinks its more of an issue with Windows memory management than with the quantity of RAM.
The RIAA used to send notices alleging infringement if the names of files looked *similar* to artist names or song names. There have been *professors* bitten when their name was *similar* to an artist's when they had recorded lectures posted in mp3 format.
Erm no..
Windows NT4 = 4.0
Windows 2000 = 5.0
Windows XP = 5.1
Windows 2003/Windows XP x64 = 5.2
Windows Vista = 6.0
Blue Pill has absolutely nothing to do with code signature forgery. Code signatures are encryption based so forging one would require that you obtain the signatory's key.
The date format is backwards compatible with Excel 2003 and earlier which represented dates in days since Jan 1 1900 and also considers 1900 a leap year (it was not) in order to remain compatible with Lotus 1-2-3 which incorrectly considered it a leap year.
The rest of the linked article is mostly bullshit. It isn't a problem with the XML format, it's a legacy limitation with Excel due to compatibility with the previous broken leader. Hash marks mean the date won't fit into the cell (increase the width of the column!).
A good behavior would be to use the old format for converted documents and give the option to switch over to ISO format and ISO format for all new documents.
I've never seen this behavior with XP SP2, XP x64, or Windows Vista. The scrollbars look and act perfectly native (they probably are since it makes no sense for IE7 not to use native scrollbars).
RMS and a large portion of the population of San Francisco are flaming lefties. You should work on your reading comprehension.
If I'm not mistaken, you have to choose to buy a Tivo. If you buy one knowing it has that limitation, then you chose to give up that "freedom".
I think NOT requiring signed binaries on a consumer box would be insane.
If the company that created CUPS required contributors to sign over their copyright just like the FSF does, then Apple really does own CUPS now.
They were free on the Windows machine. They make their money by selling the hardware to people for the upgraded price when they fail to notice the *free* upgrades :O
So the FSF now wants to sue people for copyright infringement whether they've ever so much as been in possession of a copy of the material in question?
Welcome to the death of open source...
What does this GPLv3 mess mean for retailers? When GPLv3 makes its way into retail boxes, can I go in to a store and demand to be provided with a copy of all GPLv3 sources for every piece of GPLv3 code on their shelves? I was under the impression that copyright law prevented retailers from being required to abide by such licensing (the company that boxed it is the distributor)...
It can be switched off. Google is just trying to eliminate competition from Microsoft.
I don't know if letting large corporation drive smaller competitors out of business simply by taking their trademarks would be wise.
They had 74% then whatever that total was declined by 12%. They didn't lose 12% of ALL developers, only the ones they had.
.124 or 12.4%
1-(.648/.74) ~=
Well, it would be akin to breaking into your house and taking high detail photos of your car keys.
So credit reports are their Sun, and credit freezing laws are their Kryptonite?
Apple proved they could handle a fork when they ended up surpassing the original by leaps and bounds. Apple actually suggested that KHTML be scrapped in favor of WebKit so I think they can handle it.
If it's a signature it's probably just attached or inserted somewhere in the file and doesn't actually alter the executable portion in any way so I don't know if a judge would buy "we can't reproduce the executable". This is a security feature to ensure that binaries don't get tainted. It's the same reason it would be stupid to require vendors give up their private keys since it would make the entire system useless.
The sooner everyone realizes RMS and the FSF don't give a fuck about security, developers and even users the better.
Work on OpenXML at Microsoft actually predates ODF. Whether they were going to submit it as a standard is a whole other thing though.
Except you cannot use the law (and the courts by extension) or "legal notices" to suppress protected speech. There needs to be fines on the order of a percentage of annual profits and jail time for executives for every incident of misuse of the courts and legal papers in such a manner.