And again, people have let a perfect occasion slip by to define much more user-friendly file extensions. The ones used by OOo are already a catastrophy from a usability viewpoint (what does.sxw mean? You couldn't even guess it if you didn't happen to know) and this specification continues right along this path. (The proposed extensions are shown on page 677 of the pdf document.)
Why do they, for example, insist on limiting the extensions to three characters? I can't imagine anyone using a document format defined in 2005 under MS-DOS.
What I would have liked to see would be file extensions that tell the user about the contents of the file in a universally understandable fashion, like.textdocument,.spreadsheet,.audio or.video. If you need to include further info about format of the file, you can easily cascade the extension to form something like "artist_title.vorbis.ogg.audio". This way, even if you had never heard of Ogg Vorbis, you could still tell that the file in question is supposed to contain audio information.
Looking at the page where they define the MIME-types and the file extensions it looks that's exactly what they have done for the MIME-types. Why not simply use those as the file extension? (/wo the "application/" prefix, of course) A casual, non-technical user who gets confronted with a file name of the form "Meeting Summary.vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" might be slightly confused by the ".vnd.oasis." part, but unless he's a total moron or has never used computers at all, will no problem deducing that he's looking at a textdocument (and not a spreadsheet, a video, an image or a screensaver). Somethinge like "Meeting Summary.odp", however, will probably even be a riddle for his system administrator.
With a 1 MBit/s link, you can download 1 GB in roughly 2.5 hours. Thus, 2000 people with 1Mbit connections could saturate a pair of gigabit links for maybe 5 hours when downloading FC. (Sidenote: I have no idea how large FC 4 is actually going to be.) The article says they expect the links to be saturated for about 3 to 4 days.
Streaming could be a great thing for conserving bandwidth if combined with Multicasting.
This could for example enable people with rather little resources to do media-streaming.
It could also make streaming of extremely popular content (like a live transmission from the olympic games for example) quite a lot less expensive.
hm, this is the first time I've heard of Google maps. Looks very nice, what a pity they only have maps of North America.
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They have a number of squid proxies as loadbalancers before their actual webservers. When one of their articles gets slashdotted, the hit rate for this one in the proxies will be near 100%, which means they take slashdotting rather well, actually.
(You can read about that in a bit more detail here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers)
But then again, Wikipedia is always rather slow nowadays, even if it's not being hammered.
I guess it would be like running a windows app on linux and having the whole thing feel like a windows app. Sure, it runs and it is better than nothing, but compared to a true linux app it is awful.
Funny, this is a perfect description of what it's like to run OOo on Linux - The installation looks and handles like a Windows app's, the way it integrates into the system is Windows school of thinking and it shows, the installed application looks and feels like a Windows app and finally you can, by default, not use all of the fonts available to all the other X-apps you're usually using....
(d) Nothing in this section shall apply to any monitoring of, or interaction with, a subscriber's Internet [...] connection or service, or a protected computer, by a telecommunications
carrier, cable operator, computer hardware or software provider, or provider of information service or interactive computer service for [...]
Hm, does the whole thing still make sense? (Doesn't the highlighted exception defeat the whole purpose of the bill?)
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And again, people have let a perfect occasion slip by to define much more user-friendly file extensions. .sxw mean? You couldn't even guess it if you didn't happen to know) and this specification continues right along this path.
.textdocument, .spreadsheet, .audio or .video. If you need to include further info about format of the file, you can easily cascade the extension to form something like "artist_title.vorbis.ogg.audio". This way, even if you had never heard of Ogg Vorbis, you could still tell that the file in question is supposed to contain audio information.
The ones used by OOo are already a catastrophy from a usability viewpoint (what does
(The proposed extensions are shown on page 677 of the pdf document.)
Why do they, for example, insist on limiting the extensions to three characters? I can't imagine anyone using a document format defined in 2005 under MS-DOS.
What I would have liked to see would be file extensions that tell the user about the contents of the file in a universally understandable fashion, like
Looking at the page where they define the MIME-types and the file extensions it looks that's exactly what they have done for the MIME-types. Why not simply use those as the file extension? (/wo the "application/" prefix, of course)
A casual, non-technical user who gets confronted with a file name of the form "Meeting Summary.vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" might be slightly confused by the ".vnd.oasis." part, but unless he's a total moron or has never used computers at all, will no problem deducing that he's looking at a textdocument (and not a spreadsheet, a video, an image or a screensaver).
Somethinge like "Meeting Summary.odp", however, will probably even be a riddle for his system administrator.
Yes, but for how long?
With a 1 MBit/s link, you can download 1 GB in roughly 2.5 hours. Thus, 2000 people with 1Mbit connections could saturate a pair of gigabit links for maybe 5 hours when downloading FC.
(Sidenote: I have no idea how large FC 4 is actually going to be.)
The article says they expect the links to be saturated for about 3 to 4 days.
Streaming could be a great thing for conserving bandwidth if combined with Multicasting. This could for example enable people with rather little resources to do media-streaming. It could also make streaming of extremely popular content (like a live transmission from the olympic games for example) quite a lot less expensive.
Please have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68040.
These processors can be found in Apple computers of a certain era and were the predecessors of PowerPC processors.
Try "Deutsche BA" (Deutsche = german, BA=BritishAirways)
The provided link to your publication gives a 404.
hm, this is the first time I've heard of Google maps. Looks very nice, what a pity they only have maps of North America.
They have a number of squid proxies as loadbalancers before their actual webservers. When one of their articles gets slashdotted, the hit rate for this one in the proxies will be near 100%, which means they take slashdotting rather well, actually.
(You can read about that in a bit more detail here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers)
But then again, Wikipedia is always rather slow nowadays, even if it's not being hammered.
I guess it would be like running a windows app on linux and having the whole thing feel like a windows app. Sure, it runs and it is better than nothing, but compared to a true linux app it is awful.
Funny, this is a perfect description of what it's like to run OOo on Linux - The installation looks and handles like a Windows app's, the way it integrates into the system is Windows school of thinking and it shows, the installed application looks and feels like a Windows app and finally you can, by default, not use all of the fonts available to all the other X-apps you're usually using....
(d) Nothing in this section shall apply to any monitoring of, or interaction with, a subscriber's Internet [...] connection or service, or a protected computer, by a telecommunications carrier, cable operator, computer hardware or software provider, or provider of information service or interactive computer service for [...]
Hm, does the whole thing still make sense? (Doesn't the highlighted exception defeat the whole purpose of the bill?)