Has anyone ever gone to the privacy settings tab and used the "what my profile looks like to X" feature? The author of this piece as well as everyone here should do that. No need to violate TOS etc etc etc. Just go to that page and it shows how your profile is visible to Friends of Friends, etc. You can even type in the name of a person and see how it looks like to them.
Seeing that I was one of those who made inflammatory comments against Roland, I want to say some things.
You should notice that he stopped hiding links to his blogs in there and his topics are now about stuff a bit more, shall we say concrete. I say we let him post (Not that I'm in a place that allows me that authority but still) and not flame his better posts.
It's people like you who are keeping bright females out of many industries.
I think it was obvious from your post who the real c*nt is, so i guess I need not point THAT out.
Oh yes it is a memory dump in angle brackets.... and what's wrong with that?
This memory dump can be understood by every program and even most people! GASP! Isn't this what XML is supposed to do? Tread a middle ground where the file is
Human readable
Machine readable
If you do your homework right and keep the ODF documentation handy for the obscure tags (as in rarely used) you can EASILY, I mean EASILY make out what the documents say. Heck, the tags are so self descriptive its ironic that its being called a 'memory dump'. Really I mean like OOXML is also somewhat descriptive, the fact that Microsoft has (unsurprisingly) chosen to cripple it with references to old proprietary entities makes it much harder to use than ODF. Does look as cryptic as other memory dumps to you? Well yes it is a memory dump but tell me which type of memory dump would you prefer:
"Sending Memory Dump to Microsoft, Allow or Deny?"
If there is no viewer available to me that is rendering my stuff correctly under ODF or OOXML or other XML files, I can rip out the text by hand from the XML document unscathed. Lets see you try this on the.doc format. Yes recovery tools exist but I'm talking about complete recovery.
Now let's see about those cries of XHTML+CSS being more suitable for the job. People of slashdot, have you forgotten that XHTML was itself designed to wean people off of the chaos of HTML? You are advocating using a format which itself is a planned step between HTML and XML? If XHTML is leading people towards XML, that means XML is the final format, right? Why use an intermediate format? Use XML!
As for CSS, please, it can't handle BASIC layout properly and you're telling me that I can create whole word processing and desktop publishing (I really want ODF to do this!) documents? If CSS was so good at defining the style of advanced layout, tell me, why people are still using convoluted layers upon layers (pun uintended) of nested tables? Its not for legacy support, you know. Its because TABLES, yes TABLES and 1x1 GIFs are better for precise layout than the mess that is CSS...
If you dont agree with me, fine. But I dont know why people are so much against XML that they want to use inferior solutions in its place. Come on people, XML does have its shortcomings and its being overused in places where it was not even meant to be used but please! Be rational!
Oh yes and the obligatory, mode me down if you so will...
Neither can a virus:)
Seriously, Symantec and McAfee not being able to hack into the bowels of Vista is a GOOD THING(TM). If these guys can't do it, neither can the virus writers.
Yes, we human beings are very adaptable and tough, I have survived long commutes. My dad is adoctor and works at a hospital which is 40 km from where we live and its in the opposite direction of the main city which is 100 km away. So here is the basic layout
Since I was four years old and now I am twenty, I have been
going everyday to school and now university. I have survived, my dad has survived. You can too. We all can.
Slightly offtopic but I have to say that Pakistani ladies seem to be some of the most beautiful in the world. Being of very conservative views they dont enter the miss world competition but I would not be surprised to find a Pakistani lady among the top 3. There is something to their beauty that makes you want to gaze on.
I am saying this from experience, I went to Karachi and Lahore last year and was left speechless by their beauty...
Roland, if you have some dignity as a person left in you, get the FUCK off slashdot.
Disguising your primidi blog under zdnet was clever.
Editors: When you just have to post his "articles", please remove the shameless plugs to his useless little blogs.
And I am not scared of you or the fact that you have made friends of the editors. So I am not going to post anonymously.
You dont need any high profile announcements or other such declarations to convince them, just point them to this info:
The only thing they can use to make an IE only web application is ActiveX and tell them how vulnerable THAT is. You can use Secunia for that. The last thing they would want is government computer security being compromised by a script kiddie who has just enough skill to navigate BugTraq
If in the future they wish to move to a non-Microsoft or even a non-Windows platform, they would experience first hand what vendor lock-in means
If you make it standards compliant (with a few hacks, ofcourse) it will be IE compliant anyway.
Me and my friends who know about this new name of Microsoft Windows XP: Service Pack 3 have already started calling it Windows Pista, after the green coloured nut, Pistachio. The name represents the color that your face turns into when you try to browse slashdot while munching on some snacks and hundreds of windows containing goatse start popping up...
"...Canon has been among the top 3 companies receiving US Patents for 13 consecutive years..."
I just cannot believe that during this sensitive time concerning intellectual property and software patents, they are using THIS as a marketing statement.
I seriously see no need to have this 'pay-to-post' thing on the forums. Not making enough profit? Try Google's Adsense or some other more rigourous advertising scheme. Or a subscription scheme like "Gold membership" could be adopted whre you get your name put out in golden or your comments always appear above the rests', likewise a spiffy new interface with features like "watch this thread", or "mail me summaries of replies" could be used. Another way would be to make a special branch of the forum with several sub-forums to which only the paid members have access, like live tech support or something.
All I wanted to make clear was that there are many ways to earn money while keeping the online channels of public communication free and open, if you look hard enough.
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Has anyone ever gone to the privacy settings tab and used the "what my profile looks like to X" feature? The author of this piece as well as everyone here should do that. No need to violate TOS etc etc etc. Just go to that page and it shows how your profile is visible to Friends of Friends, etc. You can even type in the name of a person and see how it looks like to them.
I take back all the bitter things I said to you, didn't know it would end like this...
... can it run Crysis on Vista at full settings? I kid, I kid!
Seeing that I was one of those who made inflammatory comments against Roland, I want to say some things.
You should notice that he stopped hiding links to his blogs in there and his topics are now about stuff a bit more, shall we say concrete. I say we let him post (Not that I'm in a place that allows me that authority but still) and not flame his better posts.
Let the flames against Roland stop...
It's people like you who are keeping bright females out of many industries. I think it was obvious from your post who the real c*nt is, so i guess I need not point THAT out.
Hate to rain on your parade but that was just me trying to get those huge updates over my spotty 56k connection that kept dropping...
This memory dump can be understood by every program and even most people! GASP! Isn't this what XML is supposed to do? Tread a middle ground where the file is
If you do your homework right and keep the ODF documentation handy for the obscure tags (as in rarely used) you can EASILY, I mean EASILY make out what the documents say. Heck, the tags are so self descriptive its ironic that its being called a 'memory dump'. Really I mean like OOXML is also somewhat descriptive, the fact that Microsoft has (unsurprisingly) chosen to cripple it with references to old proprietary entities makes it much harder to use than ODF. Does look as cryptic as other memory dumps to you? Well yes it is a memory dump but tell me which type of memory dump would you prefer:
<ObscureTag> Plaintext</ObscureTag>
OR
0100101110101010001111001001010010111101010010101
1111111100000000000001010101111000010101010010101
0100101110101010001101001001010010111101010010101
111111110000000 0101011101011110000101010100101010010
0100101110100011110101001001010010111101010010101
1111111100000000010101110101111000010101010010101
"Sending Memory Dump to Microsoft, Allow or Deny?"
If there is no viewer available to me that is rendering my stuff correctly under ODF or OOXML or other XML files, I can rip out the text by hand from the XML document unscathed. Lets see you try this on the
Now let's see about those cries of XHTML+CSS being more suitable for the job. People of slashdot, have you forgotten that XHTML was itself designed to wean people off of the chaos of HTML? You are advocating using a format which itself is a planned step between HTML and XML? If XHTML is leading people towards XML, that means XML is the final format, right? Why use an intermediate format? Use XML!
As for CSS, please, it can't handle BASIC layout properly and you're telling me that I can create whole word processing and desktop publishing (I really want ODF to do this!) documents? If CSS was so good at defining the style of advanced layout, tell me, why people are still using convoluted layers upon layers (pun uintended) of nested tables? Its not for legacy support, you know. Its because TABLES, yes TABLES and 1x1 GIFs are better for precise layout than the mess that is CSS...
If you dont agree with me, fine. But I dont know why people are so much against XML that they want to use inferior solutions in its place. Come on people, XML does have its shortcomings and its being overused in places where it was not even meant to be used but please! Be rational! Oh yes and the obligatory, mode me down if you so will...
WOW you made him look more like an insect with those arms all the way down :P
Yeah see, I told you it wasn't as evil that it kills small children! Err No wait, it does?
Neither can a virus :)
Seriously, Symantec and McAfee not being able to hack into the bowels of Vista is a GOOD THING(TM). If these guys can't do it, neither can the virus writers.
Yes, we human beings are very adaptable and tough, I have survived long commutes.
p ital
My dad is adoctor and works at a hospital which is 40 km from where we live and its in the opposite direction of the main city which is 100 km away. So here is the basic layout
City---------100km--------Home------40km------Hos
Since I was four years old and now I am twenty, I have been going everyday to school and now university. I have survived, my dad has survived. You can too. We all can.
Tabulate the data on how many of them were critical and the whole argument against *nix breaks down.
Slightly offtopic but I have to say that Pakistani ladies seem to be some of the most beautiful in the world. Being of very conservative views they dont enter the miss world competition but I would not be surprised to find a Pakistani lady among the top 3. There is something to their beauty that makes you want to gaze on. I am saying this from experience, I went to Karachi and Lahore last year and was left speechless by their beauty...
Roland, if you have some dignity as a person left in you, get the FUCK off slashdot. Disguising your primidi blog under zdnet was clever.
Editors: When you just have to post his "articles", please remove the shameless plugs to his useless little blogs.
And I am not scared of you or the fact that you have made friends of the editors. So I am not going to post anonymously.
Lets just not get into the shady and disputable realm of "potential revenue", shall we?
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Only on slashdot would 'insightful' and 'PennyArcade' grace the same sentence!
Yeah but... does it run on linux?
it does not affect us humans, no way! We are immun....PLUNGES INTO WATER....
Hope that helps
-Jamal.
Me and my friends who know about this new name of Microsoft Windows XP: Service Pack 3 have already started calling it Windows Pista, after the green coloured nut, Pistachio. The name represents the color that your face turns into when you try to browse slashdot while munching on some snacks and hundreds of windows containing goatse start popping up...
- Imperialism (1 and 2 both are really good)
- Monkey Island (the Curse of and Escape from, 3 and 4)
- Crusader: No Regret
- Theme Hospital
- MDK (get 1, not 2, 2 sucked)
These are truly some of the best, in my opinion."...Canon has been among the top 3 companies receiving US Patents for 13 consecutive years..."
I just cannot believe that during this sensitive time concerning intellectual property and software patents, they are using THIS as a marketing statement.
Microsoft announces a new, brilliant advance in its next operating system, Blackcomb.
"Computer" will now be renamed to "Bill's Computer".
I dont think Mr.Balmer is going to be too happy about that...
I seriously see no need to have this 'pay-to-post' thing on the forums. Not making enough profit? Try Google's Adsense or some other more rigourous advertising scheme. Or a subscription scheme like "Gold membership" could be adopted whre you get your name put out in golden or your comments always appear above the rests', likewise a spiffy new interface with features like "watch this thread", or "mail me summaries of replies" could be used. Another way would be to make a special branch of the forum with several sub-forums to which only the paid members have access, like live tech support or something. All I wanted to make clear was that there are many ways to earn money while keeping the online channels of public communication free and open, if you look hard enough.