If you're just communicating with other parts of your app instead of 3rd-party components, why use XML?
Because you hope that you're not just developing a piece of disposable dot-com fluff, but something that will be maintained and extended, that will become useful as part of new projects, and maybe even to third parties?
Isn't it: 'AJAX: Asynchronous Requests for XML (and other things) from JavaScript'?
Seriously, Sunday's a slow news day and chance for a slower-paced review, but this acronym was thrown around all last year - it's a bit late for a one-liner from some anonymous who doesn't even understand what he's talking about...
According to Sony's product website, it will only display their BroadBand eBook (BBeB) format. Anything else you want to read will have to be converted before loading to the reader
Gah... like those MP3 players I refused to have where you can't share the encrypted files so you've to store the originals and the encrypted versions?:(
... in fact Wired say so categorically: "Sony has said that the Reader will be able to display content from RSS feeds and from PDF files in addition to e-books in Sony's own BBeB format."
they'll take cool technology and make it useless by imposing stupid restrictions and design flaws
They did - the hope is that in this second generation, they'll relax some of these restrictions (DRM etc.) It's suggested that the thing can read PDFs this time...
you'll just find yourself digging a deeper hole that may eventually come back to haunt you if you are looking for a job someday. The first job especially can be hard to get so you want to be careful to keep your rep clean as someone who can argue constructivley and admit when you are wrong
Actually, it's rather easy to hold your own out there in the Industry with big mouths like you - I did it for years. Where you really do have to be able to defend your arguments is in academic research...
[working backwards...] Just keep at your studies and you'll get it eventually [...] It's quite OK to post that really you don't understand XML or RSS
I'll concede this - I don't care much about RSS. That these vocubaliries have such fragility is part of the reason the community I work in is looking at higher-level ontology-based formalisms for the semantic web. If you'd like to study my tutorial from HICSS on how exactly how the difference in date formats that plagues Apple's RSS can be automatically mediated between in that context, you're welcome.
In fact, I'm thinking of using this same example at the International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services next month if you can make it - we could discuss this without you swearing at me over the Internet. No more of that though - I'm really not interested.
So how does "Violated" not equal "Broke"? Would you care to describe the exact difference
It broke RSS because many of the tools meant to be enabled to communicate this data won't. It didn't break XML because XML underneath makes fewer assumptions and a parser will simply ignore the problems.
are you too busy practicing your Smug Asshole typing style?
Can you just stop there? You're embarrassing yourself...
I'm waiting. We all are.
We all? Whom are you speaking for? All of Slashdot? I didn't relise subscribers had such power...
This story is not a dupe - it's a different set of measures. If you want the power to give feedback on stories, why don't you go to Digg?... Except that you'll be disappointed as this made the front page - that's where I ripped the story off from this morning!
But decades isn't really all that long in a sustainable business sense. Clothes would be sustainable
Hmmmm, try telling that those living among the empty mill buildings in Yorkshire, where I come from. I believe the United States' own clothing industry is largely sustainable only due to trade sanctions they impose against the Far East...
CD's don't count as digital because they're technically analog
CDs are the discs, which have nothing fundamentally to do with audio, nor anything else that has to go through digital-analogue conversion - they definitely store digital information.
Audio CDs are a standard defined by the 'Red Book', properly called CDDA or Compact Disc Digital Audio - can't get much clearer than that!
"I know this story's already been duped, and you've made submitter links 'nofollow', but here's a submission linking an optimisation site - you know you can't resist those..."
Do they mean MMS? I suspect so, as they're not even talking about GSM:
"In addition, users must have mobile phones supporting packet-based technologies, such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) or 3G (third-generation)"
And I mentioned what Java was built around exactly... where?
Nowhere... nor did I, that's the point!
Dude, when you have to resort to inventing "my" beliefs, then I *have* won the argument.
Same right back at you - I was only doing it back to demonstrate the point. This is what you'd done, therefore thanks for (implicitly) conceding (which you're now forced to do), talk to you some other time...
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Isn't it: 'AJAX: Asynchronous Requests for XML (and other things) from JavaScript'?
Seriously, Sunday's a slow news day and chance for a slower-paced review, but this acronym was thrown around all last year - it's a bit late for a one-liner from some anonymous who doesn't even understand what he's talking about...
An on-going list on reviews are now available at the new Wikipedia page
In fact, I'm thinking of using this same example at the International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services next month if you can make it - we could discuss this without you swearing at me over the Internet. No more of that though - I'm really not interested.
There's a much more balanced review of this here: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/01/18/Photocasti ng-Hyperbole/
This story is not a dupe - it's a different set of measures. If you want the power to give feedback on stories, why don't you go to Digg?... Except that you'll be disappointed as this made the front page - that's where I ripped the story off from this morning!
Audio CDs are a standard defined by the 'Red Book', properly called CDDA or Compact Disc Digital Audio - can't get much clearer than that!
And already had a link refuting the claim that an invalid record size is necessary: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/13/4 17431.aspx
"I know this story's already been duped, and you've made submitter links 'nofollow', but here's a submission linking an optimisation site - you know you can't resist those..."
True, true... still called GSM when GPRS piggybacks... Still, not SMS right?