MS does not care about ODF since it serves a different market and wishes only that ODF succeeds where it already is.
Right. And that's why Microsoft isn't spending money lobbying Massachusetts to "take away much of the ITD's power to make technology policy". It's not trying to "protect its wildly profitable Office software franchise against potential erosion by competing products that support ODF". Microsoft doesn't care about ODF, yeah right.
Perhaps someone mixed up Yuan, the Chinese currency, with 'Yen'. But Yahoo says 6 million yuan is US$764,087.85, so something is not right with this story.
AFAIK, a CMYK printer can still squirt multiple colours onto one point. Since it's pointless to mix with black, and mixing all three gives you a dark brown that's pretty close to black, that leaves eight reliable colours: white (no ink), cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green, blue, black. So that's basically three bits per dot. For a piece of 8.5x11" paper at 1440dpi, I figure only about 69MiB of storage. Not looking very plausible...
Good question. I've been using Google's webmaster tools for a little while now, generating my own sitemap. Even though I have a pretty small site, the information is still interesting and useful. I tried the/ping URL on search.yahoo.com and got redirected (assuming a bad URL). I just tried it with search.live.com and got a 200 response but the text says 'Bad format while processing ping.' (Trust Microsoft to fuck up the HTTP standard). So I don't know what to do. Hopefully the FAQ will be updated to be more specific. So far it looks like it's mostly PR and little substance.
I know what you mean. I've recently gone back to film after using a few P&S digitals. When I got my first roll of film developed I asked for it to be scanned and no prints to be made. Perfect, I thought. Best of both worlds, right? Nope. The resolution of the scans was ok (not terrific though), but the quality was absolutely shit. It was extremely noisy, only made worse by the JPEG compression, and had some sort of exposure enhancement turned on. Several photos had sillouettes at sunset, and this 'enhancement' made them appear to glow because it was trying to compensate for the nearby darkness of the sillouette. I never used that service again. Later I got a Nikon Coolscan V ED. I now get beautiful 4000 spi, 14 bit colour-managed, uncompressed scans. I even went and scanned the roll of film that I had the lab scan. My original complaints were confirmed. Even though they weren't great photos and I was using some cheap Agfa consumer film, the scans done by the lab were clearly very bad.
If you like film photography but want to process them digitally, a proper film scanner is an extremely good investment.
The point is to prevent illegal distribution of copyrighted material.
And just how does a player (portable or not) decide that what you're doing is illegal? The answer (for now) is that it can't. So instead they restrict you to doing only a few things (usually just playback), robbing you of your fair-use rights. That's the problem with DRM. It's a technological solution to what is ultimately a legal problem. An electronic device cannot make legal decisions and I seriously doubt they will be able to for quite a while. The result is that DRM treats everyone like a criminal.
Just look at Penny Arcade's RSS feed. If you use a browser that supports client-side XSL templates, you will see the RSS/XML transformed into an HTML web page. If you want to sort on columns or other IE7 features that another poster mentioned, I'm sure some Javascript could be added for that. And the great thing about this is that the browser only has to support XML and XSL(T), so any other XML data can be transformed into HTML pages, not just RSS. And it's all under the control of the person making the data available, so it's consistent across browsers. But I'm thinking that's something that Microsoft is actively opposed to...
...somebody posted a link to a result page that included a rather large number of php scripts that were vulnerable to SQL injections.
And you're surprised? Go to any site trying to teach programming in PHP and you'll likely find tons of vulnerable code. There seem to be very few PHP "programmers" who actually know anything about programming, let alone security. Most just copy from others (who copied from someone else, ad nauseum) and tweak. It will be quite a while before the amount of "secure" PHP code out there on the internet reaches critical mass.
I just hope that the next generation of battery technolgy is inherently less likely to explode.
I'm not a chemist, but I don't think that's possible. The battery stores its energy in the chemical bonds of its components (electrolyte and possibly the electrodes?). Batteries with larger capacity in the same space == more reactive chemicals. These recent fires demonstrate just how much energy is locked up in these modern batteries.
Ok, that has got to be a parody. The author(s) claim to be a "Member of the HTML writers guild", but a look at the HTML shows it was produced with MS Word, complete with all the rubbish that entails. The clan members page however looks to be a dead give-away.
i helped co-author two of the bestselling books, "Teach Yourself MS-Paint in 21 Days" and "Teach Yourself MS-Bob in 21 Days".
i have written, consulted and co-written many various and numerous plugins for MSPAINT, including the "ALIASER" (a de-anti-aliaser), the innovative and hi-tech "Tree Fattener v2.0", and the "Lens Flare Drop Shadower" (if you've ever seen a lens flare with a drop shadow, and who hasn't, chances are it was done with the "Lens Flare Drop Shadower").
It was more than one person on the moon. Project Apollo made six successful landings on the moon. So a dozen people. In 35 years. For 25 billion dollars. In 1969 dollars ($135 billion 2006 dollars). Not exactly a good example to use for something that has to be simple enough for possibly millions of users around the world in their own homes, and cheap enough to be financially viable for a commercial entity.
IANAL, but it sounds to me like he's mixed up certain aspects of trademark or patent law with copyright. Unless the fan is actually copying his work (more than the characters) then copyright is not involved. And unless he's somehow taken out a trademark on certain parts of his stories then there's nothing for the fans to dilute, which appears to be what he thinks is happening with "copyright".
Ok, porting frequently exposes bugs. I'm a programmer and undertand that. Except that OpenOffice.org already exists on several platforms. And StarOffice has been around since 1994 on various Unix platforms. What I was referring to was that there seems to be a group of BSD users who resent the popularity and success of Linux and try to put it down at every available opportunity. I saw that comment as the product of this childish anti-Linux attitude.
Hmm, I guess I wasn't talking about simple functions when I said "don't mix data and code". They should be OK. The problem comes with the stuff that allows applications to be written, and especially with the ability of "hooking" into internal functionality of the office program. That's where you get self-replicating worms happening. I still think that sort of stuff should be external to the office program and file format. The thing is that MS makes Visual Basic and then uses "Visual Basic for Applications" in Office. Why not just remove VBA from Office and use external VB programs that can access the office functionality via COM. Then users would never have to worry about opening documents and having odd things happen.
I can't understand why office suites and their formats need macros, at least when they're embedded in the document. I think it's quite simple: don't mix data and code. If you need macros/scripts/whatever, put them into another file (and format) separate from the document. That way it's easier to sort out which is which e.g email filters.
It's called Freenet (with fproxy), but the privacy precautions of Freenet add so much to the load times that most people wouldn't find it a viable solution.
Tesla, read the comment again. He never said anything about *embedding*. Just that *bundling* Firefox with bloatware might not help some people's idea that Firefox is also bloatware. Not that I've ever thought that about FF. Mozilla suite perhaps, but not FF.
Or you could just use prepared statements, then you really are protected, even when a vulnerability is found in your ad-hoc method for "escaping" strings. Really, is it that hard people?
There's nothing wrong with TCP/IP and iSCSI, that is until you try implementing it cheaply in hardware so that you can stick a little controller onto each of several dozen disks. That to me seems to be the point behind ATAoE - make it cheap and simple. And the reason to use a separate ethernet network just for ATAoE is because it's basically replacing the IDE/SATA/SCSI/FC connection. Don't think of it as a dedicated network, more of simply the cables that connect the disks to the host(s). They just happen to be ethernet cabling and switches.
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Right. And that's why Microsoft isn't spending money lobbying Massachusetts to "take away much of the ITD's power to make technology policy". It's not trying to "protect its wildly profitable Office software franchise against potential erosion by competing products that support ODF". Microsoft doesn't care about ODF, yeah right.
Ah damn, I was wrong. Other people have pointed out the bad summary. Oh well...
Perhaps someone mixed up Yuan, the Chinese currency, with 'Yen'. But Yahoo says 6 million yuan is US$764,087.85, so something is not right with this story.
AFAIK, a CMYK printer can still squirt multiple colours onto one point. Since it's pointless to mix with black, and mixing all three gives you a dark brown that's pretty close to black, that leaves eight reliable colours: white (no ink), cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green, blue, black. So that's basically three bits per dot. For a piece of 8.5x11" paper at 1440dpi, I figure only about 69MiB of storage. Not looking very plausible...
Good question. I've been using Google's webmaster tools for a little while now, generating my own sitemap. Even though I have a pretty small site, the information is still interesting and useful. I tried the /ping URL on search.yahoo.com and got redirected (assuming a bad URL). I just tried it with search.live.com and got a 200 response but the text says 'Bad format while processing ping.' (Trust Microsoft to fuck up the HTTP standard). So I don't know what to do. Hopefully the FAQ will be updated to be more specific. So far it looks like it's mostly PR and little substance.
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I know what you mean. I've recently gone back to film after using a few P&S digitals. When I got my first roll of film developed I asked for it to be scanned and no prints to be made. Perfect, I thought. Best of both worlds, right? Nope. The resolution of the scans was ok (not terrific though), but the quality was absolutely shit. It was extremely noisy, only made worse by the JPEG compression, and had some sort of exposure enhancement turned on. Several photos had sillouettes at sunset, and this 'enhancement' made them appear to glow because it was trying to compensate for the nearby darkness of the sillouette. I never used that service again. Later I got a Nikon Coolscan V ED. I now get beautiful 4000 spi, 14 bit colour-managed, uncompressed scans. I even went and scanned the roll of film that I had the lab scan. My original complaints were confirmed. Even though they weren't great photos and I was using some cheap Agfa consumer film, the scans done by the lab were clearly very bad.
If you like film photography but want to process them digitally, a proper film scanner is an extremely good investment.
And just how does a player (portable or not) decide that what you're doing is illegal? The answer (for now) is that it can't. So instead they restrict you to doing only a few things (usually just playback), robbing you of your fair-use rights. That's the problem with DRM. It's a technological solution to what is ultimately a legal problem. An electronic device cannot make legal decisions and I seriously doubt they will be able to for quite a while. The result is that DRM treats everyone like a criminal.
Just look at Penny Arcade's RSS feed. If you use a browser that supports client-side XSL templates, you will see the RSS/XML transformed into an HTML web page. If you want to sort on columns or other IE7 features that another poster mentioned, I'm sure some Javascript could be added for that. And the great thing about this is that the browser only has to support XML and XSL(T), so any other XML data can be transformed into HTML pages, not just RSS. And it's all under the control of the person making the data available, so it's consistent across browsers. But I'm thinking that's something that Microsoft is actively opposed to...
And you're surprised? Go to any site trying to teach programming in PHP and you'll likely find tons of vulnerable code. There seem to be very few PHP "programmers" who actually know anything about programming, let alone security. Most just copy from others (who copied from someone else, ad nauseum) and tweak. It will be quite a while before the amount of "secure" PHP code out there on the internet reaches critical mass.
I think a little company called Google will help there with Google talk.
I'm not a chemist, but I don't think that's possible. The battery stores its energy in the chemical bonds of its components (electrolyte and possibly the electrodes?). Batteries with larger capacity in the same space == more reactive chemicals. These recent fires demonstrate just how much energy is locked up in these modern batteries.
It was more than one person on the moon. Project Apollo made six successful landings on the moon. So a dozen people. In 35 years. For 25 billion dollars. In 1969 dollars ($135 billion 2006 dollars). Not exactly a good example to use for something that has to be simple enough for possibly millions of users around the world in their own homes, and cheap enough to be financially viable for a commercial entity.
What about email?!?
IANAL, but it sounds to me like he's mixed up certain aspects of trademark or patent law with copyright. Unless the fan is actually copying his work (more than the characters) then copyright is not involved. And unless he's somehow taken out a trademark on certain parts of his stories then there's nothing for the fans to dilute, which appears to be what he thinks is happening with "copyright".
Ok, porting frequently exposes bugs. I'm a programmer and undertand that. Except that OpenOffice.org already exists on several platforms. And StarOffice has been around since 1994 on various Unix platforms. What I was referring to was that there seems to be a group of BSD users who resent the popularity and success of Linux and try to put it down at every available opportunity. I saw that comment as the product of this childish anti-Linux attitude.
Hmm, I guess I wasn't talking about simple functions when I said "don't mix data and code". They should be OK. The problem comes with the stuff that allows applications to be written, and especially with the ability of "hooking" into internal functionality of the office program. That's where you get self-replicating worms happening. I still think that sort of stuff should be external to the office program and file format. The thing is that MS makes Visual Basic and then uses "Visual Basic for Applications" in Office. Why not just remove VBA from Office and use external VB programs that can access the office functionality via COM. Then users would never have to worry about opening documents and having odd things happen.
I can't understand why office suites and their formats need macros, at least when they're embedded in the document. I think it's quite simple: don't mix data and code. If you need macros/scripts/whatever, put them into another file (and format) separate from the document. That way it's easier to sort out which is which e.g email filters.
From that "presentation":
What ever made people think the OpenBSD guys are a bunch of arrogant fucks?
It's called Freenet (with fproxy), but the privacy precautions of Freenet add so much to the load times that most people wouldn't find it a viable solution.
Tesla, read the comment again. He never said anything about *embedding*. Just that *bundling* Firefox with bloatware might not help some people's idea that Firefox is also bloatware. Not that I've ever thought that about FF. Mozilla suite perhaps, but not FF.
Or you could just use prepared statements, then you really are protected, even when a vulnerability is found in your ad-hoc method for "escaping" strings. Really, is it that hard people?
Apart from a google search for "PHP sucks", here's a few I have bookmarked:
There's nothing wrong with TCP/IP and iSCSI, that is until you try implementing it cheaply in hardware so that you can stick a little controller onto each of several dozen disks. That to me seems to be the point behind ATAoE - make it cheap and simple. And the reason to use a separate ethernet network just for ATAoE is because it's basically replacing the IDE/SATA/SCSI/FC connection. Don't think of it as a dedicated network, more of simply the cables that connect the disks to the host(s). They just happen to be ethernet cabling and switches.