Tut wasn't all that important besides being the Son of The Guy Who Created God. Now, to me that beats being "The Son of God". Tut's dad was in conflict with his priests, declared there was only one God, moved the court way up the Nile and thereby created a big following of priests who claimed there was only a single (somewhat abstract) deity. This is probably the basis for the later Abrahamic God, and so, Tut was "The Son of the Guy who Created God".
Google of today is Microsoft of yesteryear. All corporations will go in that direction, they are basically required to do so by law. I am puzzled at how much credit Linuxtards are giving Google these days, but at the same time they are not at all willing to accept that Microsoft of today is not even close to the Microsoft of the 90s and early naughts.
Fuck you're dumb. Really. Like retarded. A company, be it Microsoft or Google working in an anti-competitive manner is bad for you as a consumer. The fact that all the mentally handicapped Linux shills are just too happy to suck Google dick while accepting the exact same behavior they are criticizing Microsoft for blows my mind. I mean, how far up the rear are you willing to take it by corporate rapists before you realize it is rape no matter who does it?
You do know it's possible to embed binary formats in XML, right?
Yes, I do. I also know that the document as such, in OOXML is not binary encoded. The article you refer to gives a clue, it appears that Microsoft embeds printer settings in binary format in the XML. This may or may not be a problem, depending. OOXML does not as your referenced article alludes to, use the binary format to specify the document size. The paper size in OOXML is defined thusly: <w:pgSz w:w="12240" w:h="15840"/>
So, yes, XML can contain binary data, and yes, OOXML documents appear to some times contain binary data related to printer setup, but no, that binary data does not appear to have any impact on your ability to parse said OOXML. So, going back to the post that I replied to, no, OOXML is not opaque binary data, it is perfectly readable and parsable XML. Are there other problems with OOXML, yes, I don't think the referenced conformance clause is a problem, yes, legalistically it can be, but in practical realities, no, it is not. Non-covered implementation-defined content may be a problem, but it is currently not.
Are there problems with OOXML? Absolutely. Is it a binary opaque blob (which is what I commented on) no, it is not.
I wasn't really commenting on the transparency of OOXML, but the erroneous notion that OOXML is a binary blob...
To comment on what specifically is opaque about the standard, I'd need to know what you are specifically talking about. I've had the misfortune of having to parse OOXML through a standard XML parser from time to time, and I don't particularly care for it, but I've not had any problems parsing said documents. Perhaps I have been lucky... as I said, without more information on what you feel is problematic, I couldn't say.
This is absolute nonsense. Given that Cutler and team were the chief designers behind VMS does not mean that the "stole" VMS and moved it to Microsoft. In fact,we know for sure they did not. The VMS kernel is written in ASM and the NT kernel in C. Did the Cutler team bring their experience over? Sure, did that influence the design of the NT system? Absolutely. Is that the same as stealing from VMS, no more than VMS stealing from Unix, Multics and other operatingsystems. In fact, significant parts of the VMS design was found much earlier in IBM operating systems.
Microsoft didn't steal from DEC, though they clearly poached developers from them.
Microsoft hasn't changed its standpoint on trying to take control of everyone's computing experience
This is a valid goal. It is the goal of every major computer company I know. It's the goal of Apple, Google, Facebook, IBM etc. If you are a large player in the market, not having this goal is probably in fact illegal. You are required to attempt to maximize investor return, and getting 100% market share is one good way to do that. So, quite frankly, not pursuing 100% market share within your market is basically illegal.
Which gave us AJAX, but yes, the plugin stuff was a nightmare and has been the bane of many a web-developer. On the other hand, I am far more angry at how Google totally destroyed any chance of ever having a semantic web - what Web 2.0 was supposed to be. That's way worse.
I haven't forgotten UEFI
Then talk to Intel. Oh, and UEFI is a huge improvement actually, but then again, you don't really know what UEFI is, do you?
I haven't forgotten the MS W8 app store who takes a 30% cut of application maker profits
Compared to...
... blah on... XBox Live games...blah...
Compared to...
single constant byte value in Windows that needlessly limits the number of concurrent TCP connections so that MS can sell a Windows Server version
You are joking right?
I haven't forgotten MS screwing over device partners over Surface
Seriously? That was a bad move on part of MS? Are you retarded? Pre-surface: All PCs are grey and 10" by 10" and there is no innovation (exaggeration). Post surface - some seriously interesting things coming out of the OEMs. I say "Thanks for the Surface Pro 2" Microsoft. A fantastic device in its own right, but more importantly a device that gives the lazy OEM designers a well deserved kick in the ass.
even as we speak attempting to ram home an opaque, binary blob document format, OOXML
No need to make up shit just to take it out on Microsoft. The above is simply wrong, and the "proof" is in your own sentence. OOXML... Wonder what format it is. Binary blob or... you know... perhaps... maybe... XML? When participating in a discussion, having the facts clear is an advantage. Once you spout nonsense as fact your credibility goes down the drain. Oh, you've looked at it you say? It was binary? Yes, it was zipped. Makes sense. XML is overly verbose and lends it self perfectly to zipping up. Makes total sense. It's optional though, you don't have to.
Generally, politicians with (R) next to their name claim to be against regulations and state/federal interference with free enterprise
This is incorrect for any (R) who does not have "Rand" as their last name. The (R) camp has not been against regulations/federal interference since before Reagan. Throughout modern history, governments with (R) majorities have stood for government increase and growth while governments with (D) majorities have done the opposite. Obama is the main exception to this, but the majority og his government increase (with the obvious exception of a health care bill) has come from the continuation of Bush Jr. programs. Why these programs have not been shut down is anybodys guess, but opposition to shutting them down from other branches of the government has been a factor. All the same, Obama bucks a good (D) trend by adopting an older (R) trend which has been to grow government beyond any rational size.
d) Norway's power grid is so dirty that it is fooling the cables. That's the issue, near as I can tell.
Not really, no. The power grid is perfectly "clean" and significantly more stable than in most places in the world. This is solely a wiring problem. Tesla didn't know that the wiring in Norway was slightly different than in the rest of Europe, and they are erroneously detecting ground faults when there are none.
In most parts of the world at the moment, for every three iPhones Apple sells, there are two Windows Phones sold. Given the late entry into the market, I am a little unsure how that is a massive failure. In 24 countries, only one of which is in Europe at the time being, Windows Phones outsell iPhones. Again, is that a failure. In the mobile space, the only thing moving faster than the iPhone market share drop is the Windows Phone market growth...
Sorry, I have to disagree. I was part of a team that built some of the earliest commercial Java software, a company that was eventually acquired by IBM (guess what happened after that). We built our own extensible app server, there were none available at the time. We wrote the fastest SNMP stack for Solaris in Java and integrated it into our management solution. This stuff was amazing.
After IBM I drifted for a while and then ended up with a company that needed to do some.Net stuff. Hadn't tried it, but found it was quite similar to Java, and what I was used to with Java was there for.Net. Then came.Net 3.5, and four, and whammo, C# and.Net ran WAY past Java. It's sad for me to see how long in the tooth Java is becoming. It's clearly a bad case of a combination of a disinterested owner and development by committee.
The world is moving fast, Java extremely slowly, and some improvements are terrible mistakes. An early example that'll be with us forever, or until Sun says "screw committees" and does it over from scratch, is autoboxing. It was done badly, very, very badly, and I for one has suffered. Many more too.
The main fault is the resistance to changing,the core VM. I don't understand it. It's dumb. If changes make it incompatible, ship the two VMs in one go and run code where it is compatible. Easy.
There are many more issues (where is all the great functional stuff, for example). There are also some serious problems with extremely popular add ons for example. Hibernate is a massive anti-pattern in and of it self, for example.
Good stuff is happening too, of course. I like the Play framework (but static controllers is a great example of premature optimization), but for Java Play is nowhere near.Net MVC. Then of course, you can opt out of Java with Play. That's good. For Play developers, but for Java as a programming language...
If you're Apple, all of it? But hey, Apple are idiots right. There is no way they'd select a functional cloud supplier for their iCloud. Right? Yes, I know the iCloud runs on a combo of Azure and Amazon...
I use my Surface everywhere I used to use a laptop and almost everywhere I used an iPad. My mini is still my primary (over priced Kindle). Some of what I use the Surface for when on the road:
Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere pro, the pen is great for Photoshop work!!!
Visual Studio for work related dev
Eclipse (on Windows) for Java work related stuff (jBoss for test deployment)
Rubymine for personal projects, deploying to Amazon
Ubuntu in a VMWare instance for test deployments
What can your tablet do?
My tablet runs Linux. In VM for sure, but it runs it very well. It also runs Office, which is critical for me, but not for everybody. It also rund Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Lightroom, which is critical to me. Smartsound too. It can remotely control my camera both wired and wireless. I also develop on it using Visual Studio for Windows development and Rubymine for Ruby development (I test-deploy on Linux on the same tablet). The other day I was (to test it) editing some 4K video on it. It worked, but my 12 core desktop is better for that. It also runs for 7-8 hours continuously when I work on this stuff.
So, what can your tablet do?
Note, this is also the cheaper of the solutions available to me, since any other tablet I could get would, to have the same functionality, also require I buy a high-end laptop in addition.
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Tut wasn't all that important besides being the Son of The Guy Who Created God. Now, to me that beats being "The Son of God". Tut's dad was in conflict with his priests, declared there was only one God, moved the court way up the Nile and thereby created a big following of priests who claimed there was only a single (somewhat abstract) deity. This is probably the basis for the later Abrahamic God, and so, Tut was "The Son of the Guy who Created God".
Yeah, an Android bug must be the fault of Microsoft. Are you paid to shill for Google or do you just like the taste of Google Exec dick?
Google of today is Microsoft of yesteryear. All corporations will go in that direction, they are basically required to do so by law. I am puzzled at how much credit Linuxtards are giving Google these days, but at the same time they are not at all willing to accept that Microsoft of today is not even close to the Microsoft of the 90s and early naughts.
Fuck you're dumb. Really. Like retarded. A company, be it Microsoft or Google working in an anti-competitive manner is bad for you as a consumer. The fact that all the mentally handicapped Linux shills are just too happy to suck Google dick while accepting the exact same behavior they are criticizing Microsoft for blows my mind. I mean, how far up the rear are you willing to take it by corporate rapists before you realize it is rape no matter who does it?
Nuclear power, the safest, cleanest efficient way to produce energy known to man.
You do know it's possible to embed binary formats in XML, right?
Yes, I do. I also know that the document as such, in OOXML is not binary encoded. The article you refer to gives a clue, it appears that Microsoft embeds printer settings in binary format in the XML. This may or may not be a problem, depending. OOXML does not as your referenced article alludes to, use the binary format to specify the document size. The paper size in OOXML is defined thusly: <w:pgSz w:w="12240" w:h="15840" />
So, yes, XML can contain binary data, and yes, OOXML documents appear to some times contain binary data related to printer setup, but no, that binary data does not appear to have any impact on your ability to parse said OOXML. So, going back to the post that I replied to, no, OOXML is not opaque binary data, it is perfectly readable and parsable XML. Are there other problems with OOXML, yes, I don't think the referenced conformance clause is a problem, yes, legalistically it can be, but in practical realities, no, it is not. Non-covered implementation-defined content may be a problem, but it is currently not.
Are there problems with OOXML? Absolutely. Is it a binary opaque blob (which is what I commented on) no, it is not.
I wasn't really commenting on the transparency of OOXML, but the erroneous notion that OOXML is a binary blob...
To comment on what specifically is opaque about the standard, I'd need to know what you are specifically talking about. I've had the misfortune of having to parse OOXML through a standard XML parser from time to time, and I don't particularly care for it, but I've not had any problems parsing said documents. Perhaps I have been lucky... as I said, without more information on what you feel is problematic, I couldn't say.
You can store binary data in XML.
Yes, you can...
Which is just what OOXML does
Really?
<w:body>
<w:p w:rsidR="007818AD" w:rsidRDefault="004C6B94">
<w:r>
<w:t>Some words in a document</w:t>
</w:r>
</w:p>
Looks like text to me. Looks eminently readable too.
That's because much of that kernel was VMS
This is absolute nonsense. Given that Cutler and team were the chief designers behind VMS does not mean that the "stole" VMS and moved it to Microsoft. In fact,we know for sure they did not. The VMS kernel is written in ASM and the NT kernel in C. Did the Cutler team bring their experience over? Sure, did that influence the design of the NT system? Absolutely. Is that the same as stealing from VMS, no more than VMS stealing from Unix, Multics and other operatingsystems. In fact, significant parts of the VMS design was found much earlier in IBM operating systems.
Microsoft didn't steal from DEC, though they clearly poached developers from them.
Microsoft hasn't changed its standpoint on trying to take control of everyone's computing experience
This is a valid goal. It is the goal of every major computer company I know. It's the goal of Apple, Google, Facebook, IBM etc. If you are a large player in the market, not having this goal is probably in fact illegal. You are required to attempt to maximize investor return, and getting 100% market share is one good way to do that. So, quite frankly, not pursuing 100% market share within your market is basically illegal.
I have not forgotten how MS came by its MS DOS
They bought it. Is that a crime?
needless standards adoption of IE6
Which gave us AJAX, but yes, the plugin stuff was a nightmare and has been the bane of many a web-developer. On the other hand, I am far more angry at how Google totally destroyed any chance of ever having a semantic web - what Web 2.0 was supposed to be. That's way worse.
I haven't forgotten UEFI
Then talk to Intel. Oh, and UEFI is a huge improvement actually, but then again, you don't really know what UEFI is, do you?
I haven't forgotten the MS W8 app store who takes a 30% cut of application maker profits
Compared to...
... blah on ... XBox Live games ...blah ...
Compared to...
single constant byte value in Windows that needlessly limits the number of concurrent TCP connections so that MS can sell a Windows Server version
You are joking right?
I haven't forgotten MS screwing over device partners over Surface
Seriously? That was a bad move on part of MS? Are you retarded? Pre-surface: All PCs are grey and 10" by 10" and there is no innovation (exaggeration). Post surface - some seriously interesting things coming out of the OEMs. I say "Thanks for the Surface Pro 2" Microsoft. A fantastic device in its own right, but more importantly a device that gives the lazy OEM designers a well deserved kick in the ass.
even as we speak attempting to ram home an opaque, binary blob document format, OOXML
No need to make up shit just to take it out on Microsoft. The above is simply wrong, and the "proof" is in your own sentence. OOXML... Wonder what format it is. Binary blob or... you know... perhaps... maybe... XML? When participating in a discussion, having the facts clear is an advantage. Once you spout nonsense as fact your credibility goes down the drain. Oh, you've looked at it you say? It was binary? Yes, it was zipped. Makes sense. XML is overly verbose and lends it self perfectly to zipping up. Makes total sense. It's optional though, you don't have to.
Generally, politicians with (R) next to their name claim to be against regulations and state/federal interference with free enterprise
This is incorrect for any (R) who does not have "Rand" as their last name. The (R) camp has not been against regulations/federal interference since before Reagan. Throughout modern history, governments with (R) majorities have stood for government increase and growth while governments with (D) majorities have done the opposite. Obama is the main exception to this, but the majority og his government increase (with the obvious exception of a health care bill) has come from the continuation of Bush Jr. programs. Why these programs have not been shut down is anybodys guess, but opposition to shutting them down from other branches of the government has been a factor. All the same, Obama bucks a good (D) trend by adopting an older (R) trend which has been to grow government beyond any rational size.
But funny enough, on /., if Microsoft omits a Working Draft, then it is because Microsoft are evil bastards. Funny dat.
d) Norway's power grid is so dirty that it is fooling the cables. That's the issue, near as I can tell.
Not really, no. The power grid is perfectly "clean" and significantly more stable than in most places in the world. This is solely a wiring problem. Tesla didn't know that the wiring in Norway was slightly different than in the rest of Europe, and they are erroneously detecting ground faults when there are none.
Please note, changing from gasoline cars to electrical cars has no effect, one way or the other, on CO2 emissions.
Dude, it is a long time since the 1990s. Wake up.
In most parts of the world at the moment, for every three iPhones Apple sells, there are two Windows Phones sold. Given the late entry into the market, I am a little unsure how that is a massive failure. In 24 countries, only one of which is in Europe at the time being, Windows Phones outsell iPhones. Again, is that a failure. In the mobile space, the only thing moving faster than the iPhone market share drop is the Windows Phone market growth...
Sorry, I have to disagree. I was part of a team that built some of the earliest commercial Java software, a company that was eventually acquired by IBM (guess what happened after that). We built our own extensible app server, there were none available at the time. We wrote the fastest SNMP stack for Solaris in Java and integrated it into our management solution. This stuff was amazing.
After IBM I drifted for a while and then ended up with a company that needed to do some .Net stuff. Hadn't tried it, but found it was quite similar to Java, and what I was used to with Java was there for .Net. Then came .Net 3.5, and four, and whammo, C# and .Net ran WAY past Java. It's sad for me to see how long in the tooth Java is becoming. It's clearly a bad case of a combination of a disinterested owner and development by committee.
The world is moving fast, Java extremely slowly, and some improvements are terrible mistakes. An early example that'll be with us forever, or until Sun says "screw committees" and does it over from scratch, is autoboxing. It was done badly, very, very badly, and I for one has suffered. Many more too.
The main fault is the resistance to changing,the core VM. I don't understand it. It's dumb. If changes make it incompatible, ship the two VMs in one go and run code where it is compatible. Easy.
There are many more issues (where is all the great functional stuff, for example). There are also some serious problems with extremely popular add ons for example. Hibernate is a massive anti-pattern in and of it self, for example.
Good stuff is happening too, of course. I like the Play framework (but static controllers is a great example of premature optimization), but for Java Play is nowhere near .Net MVC. Then of course, you can opt out of Java with Play. That's good. For Play developers, but for Java as a programming language...
If you're Apple, all of it? But hey, Apple are idiots right. There is no way they'd select a functional cloud supplier for their iCloud. Right? Yes, I know the iCloud runs on a combo of Azure and Amazon...
I use my Surface everywhere I used to use a laptop and almost everywhere I used an iPad. My mini is still my primary (over priced Kindle). Some of what I use the Surface for when on the road: Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere pro, the pen is great for Photoshop work!!! Visual Studio for work related dev Eclipse (on Windows) for Java work related stuff (jBoss for test deployment) Rubymine for personal projects, deploying to Amazon Ubuntu in a VMWare instance for test deployments What can your tablet do?
Yeah, they are so clueless that Apple is running the iCloud on Windows (Azure). Must be junk.
It's probably
bool somVar = someFunction();
// some code
// some code
// Lots of code
if( someVar == true ) {
}
else if( someVar == false ) {
}
else {
}
IBM corporate environments alone are 90% Linux desktops
Nonsense. There may be high penetration of Linux in some areas of IBM, but 90% on the Desktop? You're off by at least an order of magnitude.
My tablet runs Linux. In VM for sure, but it runs it very well. It also runs Office, which is critical for me, but not for everybody. It also rund Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Lightroom, which is critical to me. Smartsound too. It can remotely control my camera both wired and wireless. I also develop on it using Visual Studio for Windows development and Rubymine for Ruby development (I test-deploy on Linux on the same tablet). The other day I was (to test it) editing some 4K video on it. It worked, but my 12 core desktop is better for that. It also runs for 7-8 hours continuously when I work on this stuff.
So, what can your tablet do?
Note, this is also the cheaper of the solutions available to me, since any other tablet I could get would, to have the same functionality, also require I buy a high-end laptop in addition.