Well, I too seriously doubt they'll get anywhere. My guess is that they'll just say fuck it, change the default theme of Firefox 1.5, and send that off as IE7. Us web developers are very hopeful that IE7 won't suck complete balls, but looking at it, it looks like it will continue with the ball sucking trend since IE4.
Just warning you: Slashdot doesn't seem to be the best place to randomly ask questions unless it's in an askslashdot article. Maybe checking out the Ubuntu forums would be best for getting any sort of Linux-related questions answered.
PDFs, PostScript, and DVIs are made to be static pages that will display the same regardless of device, not edittable documents. If you want to make an edittable document, you use a format like ODF or even TeX.
I'm pretty sure the delayed release for Windows and OSX was due to Trolltech's disallowing of Qt being used in non-free operating systems without a license. Qt 4 fixed that, though, so KDE 4 will be multi-platform beyond just Linux and BSD.
Now that's a little FUDdy; the IE7 development team is trying much harder than in the past to improve its HTML and CSS rendering, but a monstrosity such as IE must be quite difficult to get up to par with the year 1999 let alone 2006 and beyond (with all the modularisation parties going on at W3C).
I do recall reading that Abiword wasn't going to use ODF (specifically.odw and.otw) as its native format because it didn't do all it wanted to (whatever's in the.abiword XML format I'd assume). If GNOME Office is going to eventually get all its software to use ODF natively or at least up to par with its main format, that's a plus for ODF as well.
At this point, a lot of office software supports ODF importing, and many of them support exporting as well, but MS Office lags behind as usual.
I think Microsoft's just lazy and seems to think "what's wrong with OfficeXML? We're going to be using a new XML format with the specification open for outside usage." If you've noticed, OpenOffice is the only office program to fully support (and use by default) the ODF's. KOffice is up next for that, but it seems that up to this point, every single office program had its own format, even OSS.
Then again, it's Microsoft, so there must be some sort of underlying goal to squash its competitors, right?
32-bit integers representing timestamps and memory addresses are completely unrelated. A 64-bit machine allows for millions of TB of memory while a 32-bit machine maxes out at 4 GB. The timestamp issue isn't so much an issue to worry about as a simple upgrade to 64-bit integers to keep track of time would fix the problem, but I'm not so sure on programs where compatibility might break due to the increased size of the timestamp.
Well, Qt and wxWidgets are as cross-platform as Java (Qt moreso; it has support for embedded devices and very low-end graphics environments like LCD panels), so I don't see the problem.
Eep! Don't read the source code if you ever want to work on GNU Classpath or anything. Sun's licensing is a bit queer when it comes to the source code, so be careful if you want to remain "untainted"...
I think he might be referring to the usage of J2EE (server-side usually) instead of J2SE (client-side). If you run something like Geronimo with a nice HTML front-end, the user is that much happier.
You just realisticly said that it supports MP3, AAC (MP4), and the two main PCM formats (WAV and AIFF). Wow, big fucking whoop. Ever heard of Vorbis? FLAC? Monkey's Audio? ATRAC? Musepack? AC3? I could go on and on...
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Well, I too seriously doubt they'll get anywhere. My guess is that they'll just say fuck it, change the default theme of Firefox 1.5, and send that off as IE7. Us web developers are very hopeful that IE7 won't suck complete balls, but looking at it, it looks like it will continue with the ball sucking trend since IE4.
Oh yeah? Well I use Vim (and the C-v x00 thing) cat'd to /dev/input/mice where I control the mouse, beat that.
Well, there's Struts for one... ;)
Just warning you: Slashdot doesn't seem to be the best place to randomly ask questions unless it's in an askslashdot article. Maybe checking out the Ubuntu forums would be best for getting any sort of Linux-related questions answered.
PDFs, PostScript, and DVIs are made to be static pages that will display the same regardless of device, not edittable documents. If you want to make an edittable document, you use a format like ODF or even TeX.
Well, AbiWord has a Windows version as well, and I know that there are many Windows users who use it for the leanness.
I'm pretty sure the delayed release for Windows and OSX was due to Trolltech's disallowing of Qt being used in non-free operating systems without a license. Qt 4 fixed that, though, so KDE 4 will be multi-platform beyond just Linux and BSD.
Now that's a little FUDdy; the IE7 development team is trying much harder than in the past to improve its HTML and CSS rendering, but a monstrosity such as IE must be quite difficult to get up to par with the year 1999 let alone 2006 and beyond (with all the modularisation parties going on at W3C).
I do recall reading that Abiword wasn't going to use ODF (specifically .odw and .otw) as its native format because it didn't do all it wanted to (whatever's in the .abiword XML format I'd assume). If GNOME Office is going to eventually get all its software to use ODF natively or at least up to par with its main format, that's a plus for ODF as well.
At this point, a lot of office software supports ODF importing, and many of them support exporting as well, but MS Office lags behind as usual.
I think Microsoft's just lazy and seems to think "what's wrong with OfficeXML? We're going to be using a new XML format with the specification open for outside usage." If you've noticed, OpenOffice is the only office program to fully support (and use by default) the ODF's. KOffice is up next for that, but it seems that up to this point, every single office program had its own format, even OSS.
Then again, it's Microsoft, so there must be some sort of underlying goal to squash its competitors, right?
I think he's assuming that 80% of the internet is porn.
That's a bit generous; I'd go with 90% of the internet being NWS.
32-bit integers representing timestamps and memory addresses are completely unrelated. A 64-bit machine allows for millions of TB of memory while a 32-bit machine maxes out at 4 GB. The timestamp issue isn't so much an issue to worry about as a simple upgrade to 64-bit integers to keep track of time would fix the problem, but I'm not so sure on programs where compatibility might break due to the increased size of the timestamp.
How about calling it the FOK? Oh wait, that seems kinda dirty...
By using chroot. Simple, yes? It's used commonly with LiveCD's and whatnot, so don't dismiss it as a hack.
Uh, the Sixth Amendment guarrantees that you will face your accusors and whatnot, so I don't know what kind of shit you're shitting out right now...
I'm sure that if Apple buys Disney, Mickey Mouse will soon only have one button on his trousers. ;)
Well, Qt and wxWidgets are as cross-platform as Java (Qt moreso; it has support for embedded devices and very low-end graphics environments like LCD panels), so I don't see the problem.
Eep! Don't read the source code if you ever want to work on GNU Classpath or anything. Sun's licensing is a bit queer when it comes to the source code, so be careful if you want to remain "untainted"...
That can't be good PR for their AIX servers...
I think he might be referring to the usage of J2EE (server-side usually) instead of J2SE (client-side). If you run something like Geronimo with a nice HTML front-end, the user is that much happier.
I'm using this too, and I can assure you that it still doesn't support Qt, so it still has a long way to go.
Maybe he meant "incentive" as that would make most sense in context.
All of it is due to copyright, so nobody is specifically to blame here but the copyright lobbyists...
You just realisticly said that it supports MP3, AAC (MP4), and the two main PCM formats (WAV and AIFF). Wow, big fucking whoop. Ever heard of Vorbis? FLAC? Monkey's Audio? ATRAC? Musepack? AC3? I could go on and on...