XML as a fall-back standard
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Effective XML
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When it comes to speed, XML sucks. It does provide incomparable interchange of data on a human- and machine-readable level.
It would be nice on the other hand to be able to select a faster standard when both ends of a transaction support it.
XML would become the lowest denominator.
.. would be if they would be forced by market or legislative pressure to implement the OpenDocument standard, either as a default or optional export format.
As it is, they keep *their* format and anyone wishing to make interoperable software is forced to write to *their* format. It's me, me, me across the board.
Two steps forward (.doc->XML), three steps backwards(M$ proprietary XML), two steps forward (licensable M$ XML).
Apart from the fact that we now have probably a documented format and XML to ease support for it, we've reached the same status quo of a few years back.
I'd guess they're going for pattern matching of a static number of commands, it's been done before (with varying success) - hey even mobiles do it today.
If on the other hand they're going to provide speech to text conversion ("Play unforgettable fire"), that's an entirely different (and processing-intensive) thing.
MLNS is not saturating their entire bandWIDTH - only up to 95% of capacity I think; if, on the other hand, you consider whether the hit sites can afford the cost of the accumulated throughput, well, that's another story....
I just wondered, seeing how many machines out there are 0wned by spammers, whether someone will have the idea of making a worm that sets up the screensaver or implements the MLNS system invisibly as a service.
Not something I'd condone, but I could well imagine that someone fed up with the spam might see the end justifying the means....
They are NOT DDoS-ing as that would be illegal in some places... just using up a fair chunk of their bandwidth to hurt them where it hurts the most - the almighty buck.
Seems AMD's releasing a 'Thin and light' Sempron 3000+.
Inq: http://theinq.com/?article=19824
How well it compares to the Centrino on heat emission and wattage, I couldn't say though.
"... twenty anti-spyware scanners were pitted against a collection of 15 adware and spyware programs that were installed with the latest version of Grokster..."
15 pieces of trash with ONE program!
Another thing which should be considered:
If there is a certain flaw in the voting system (e.g. puncher working statistically worse on one side of the ballot), the ones in charge of the voting process can utilise this fact to favour their candidate.
The machines don't even have to be rigged, just be imperfect!
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Type? Hah, back in my days, we had to wake up at the crack of dawn, punch cards to get things done, and we didn't even have a screen!
Microsoft announces officially that all security holes will be UNPATCHED FOR A MONTH (except for the U.S. Gov. systems)
Which is probably the Vanderpool technology Intel's been working on (http://theinq.com/?article=20835
You mean "dead in the water"?
... down the toilet
When it comes to speed, XML sucks. It does provide incomparable interchange of data on a human- and machine-readable level. It would be nice on the other hand to be able to select a faster standard when both ends of a transaction support it. XML would become the lowest denominator.
Sorry, submit-trigger-happy ...
"of Visual Basic"
But why on earth does he put Delphi as the bastard 'son' of Delphi?
.. would be if they would be forced by market or legislative pressure to implement the OpenDocument standard, either as a default or optional export format.
As it is, they keep *their* format and anyone wishing to make interoperable software is forced to write to *their* format. It's me, me, me across the board.
Two steps forward (.doc->XML), three steps backwards(M$ proprietary XML), two steps forward (licensable M$ XML).
Apart from the fact that we now have probably a documented format and XML to ease support for it, we've reached the same status quo of a few years back.
http://www.epinions.com/elec-review-6E7E-2859892-3 9CD5C1D-prod1
and uses technology from Sensory http://www.sensoryinc.com/html/showcase/showcase.h tml#8.
I guess the novelty depends on how far they're taking the voice-recognition.
I'd guess they're going for pattern matching of a static number of commands, it's been done before (with varying success) - hey even mobiles do it today.
If on the other hand they're going to provide speech to text conversion ("Play unforgettable fire"), that's an entirely different (and processing-intensive) thing.
MLNS is not saturating their entire bandWIDTH - only up to 95% of capacity I think; if, on the other hand, you consider whether the hit sites can afford the cost of the accumulated throughput, well, that's another story....
I just wondered, seeing how many machines out there are 0wned by spammers, whether someone will have the idea of making a worm that sets up the screensaver or implements the MLNS system invisibly as a service.
Not something I'd condone, but I could well imagine that someone fed up with the spam might see the end justifying the means....
They are NOT DDoS-ing as that would be illegal in some places... just using up a fair chunk of their bandwidth to hurt them where it hurts the most - the almighty buck.
Read the original article.
Seems AMD's releasing a 'Thin and light' Sempron 3000+. Inq: http://theinq.com/?article=19824 How well it compares to the Centrino on heat emission and wattage, I couldn't say though.
"... twenty anti-spyware scanners were pitted against a collection of 15 adware and spyware programs that were installed with the latest version of Grokster ..."
15 pieces of trash with ONE program!
Another thing which should be considered: If there is a certain flaw in the voting system (e.g. puncher working statistically worse on one side of the ballot), the ones in charge of the voting process can utilise this fact to favour their candidate. The machines don't even have to be rigged, just be imperfect!
... during the commercials. Guess that makes legs illegal?