"standard" is the noun, with "de facto" and "de jure" being choices for adjectives to apply to it. It doesn't matter where the standard comes from - de facto standards are observed and de jure standards are looked at by Internet nerds as gloriously elegant solutions to all the world's problems that the world is too stupid to adopt into de facto common use.
De facto standards are the ones that matter. When the de jure standards become de facto, that's when they start mattering. IPv6, XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.0, and open XML productivity suite formates all look great on paper, but IPv4, broken HTML 3.02 Transitional, broken CSS 1.0, and closed shitty formats like.DOC are what the world uses.
This standard will matter when the world switches to it en masse, which will be years after even Microsoft makes it the default. I'm sad about it, but them's the breaks.
It's not ironic. "Word" is the de facto standard format. Incomplete support for the standard, no matter how flawed the standard itself may be, is why we bitch at MS for IE's handling of CSS, among many other things. No de jure standard is going to outweigh the de facto standard MS has created, whether we like it or not.
OpenOffice.org actually gets in your way more than Word by default, which is truly amazing. The main feature I wish it had is better Word compatibility. When I open a Word document, it should not:
Dump core immediately
Dump core later
Get confused about where the cursor is and show it 3 words off from where my typing shows up
Look different from the Word document
Save in Word format in a way that will make Word show it differently than OpenOffice.org did
I've had virtually all of these problems with every Word document I've tried to open with OpenOffice.org on Linux. That's really annoying when you need to work with others. Even the Mac Word users weren't left out in the cold on this, but I was unless I rebooted to Windows. I shouldn't have to do that.
The parent is right - the alternatives all suck, and they do it hardcore.
And, in PNG, the G stands for Graphics; Portable Network Graphics. I know it's a stretch, but possibly Adobe meant the G in DNG to also stand for Graphics. I know it seems to have nothing to do with the file format at hand, but it's possible. I mean, they made PDF, which has nothing to do with Firearms even though the ATF's F stands for that. It's just an Adobe thing, I guess.
No evidence? Other than that the memo was typed on a typewriter that didn't exist 30 years ago (IIRC, it was justified - no military typist would have been capable or willing to do that). It was so obviously faked.
As to where Bush was - he never claimed he was anywhere but flying around in the ANG. Kerry claims to be a war hero and makes up all sorts of lies to support it - that's what bothers me. Bush never claimed to be a war hero. Kerry bases his entire "I'm tough" image on his "heroism" in Vietnam. Never mind that he came back and protested against the war and undermined the safety of the comrades he left behind. Never mind that he came back because he shot himself in the foot a few times and conned doctors that never worked on him that his bandaids justified Purple Hearts. Never mind that once his exploitation of that honorable medal was through, he pretended to throw it on the White House lawn (it was actually another veteran's medal - Kerry still has his, another lie). Never mind that he admits to shooting a wounded, fleeing VC in the back. Pretty heroic, I must say. Then the whole Cambodia lie - first he claims that it was "seared" in his mind that he was there on Christmas Day, 1968. Then it turns out that can't have been, so he revises his story. He claims the Khmer Rouge were firing at him - never mind that they didn't enter the fighting until the 1970's.
Yep - purely honest and heroic, that John Kerry. I'm sure glad he's going to fight a "more sensitive war on terror".
It never ceases to amaze me how vastly and blindly left-wing the Slashdot audience really is. And before you accuse me of being blindly right-wing: I'm not right-wing or blind. But John Kerry will not get my vote. When the British think a guy is too pompous to be our President, something's definitely up.
Here's the problem with the new generation of Unix users - they think that, just because Unix is a collection of small utilities that can be used to achieve great results, they must utilize as many tools as possible in solving the simplest problems.
I'm with you on this. I decided to go for a career change, and am in law school right now, but I spent the past year working in IT and it was around April that things started really picking up, with some initial near-opportunities running back to October '03.
Things are truly looking up. If you can weather the last of the storm as it passes through, you can do alright.
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I'm still waiting to SEE!!!...Jews in space!
"standard" is the noun, with "de facto" and "de jure" being choices for adjectives to apply to it. It doesn't matter where the standard comes from - de facto standards are observed and de jure standards are looked at by Internet nerds as gloriously elegant solutions to all the world's problems that the world is too stupid to adopt into de facto common use.
.DOC are what the world uses.
De facto standards are the ones that matter. When the de jure standards become de facto, that's when they start mattering. IPv6, XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.0, and open XML productivity suite formates all look great on paper, but IPv4, broken HTML 3.02 Transitional, broken CSS 1.0, and closed shitty formats like
This standard will matter when the world switches to it en masse, which will be years after even Microsoft makes it the default. I'm sad about it, but them's the breaks.
It's not ironic. "Word" is the de facto standard format. Incomplete support for the standard, no matter how flawed the standard itself may be, is why we bitch at MS for IE's handling of CSS, among many other things. No de jure standard is going to outweigh the de facto standard MS has created, whether we like it or not.
OpenOffice.org actually gets in your way more than Word by default, which is truly amazing. The main feature I wish it had is better Word compatibility. When I open a Word document, it should not:
- Dump core immediately
- Dump core later
- Get confused about where the cursor is and show it 3 words off from where my typing shows up
- Look different from the Word document
- Save in Word format in a way that will make Word show it differently than OpenOffice.org did
I've had virtually all of these problems with every Word document I've tried to open with OpenOffice.org on Linux. That's really annoying when you need to work with others. Even the Mac Word users weren't left out in the cold on this, but I was unless I rebooted to Windows. I shouldn't have to do that.The parent is right - the alternatives all suck, and they do it hardcore.
And, in PNG, the G stands for Graphics; Portable Network Graphics. I know it's a stretch, but possibly Adobe meant the G in DNG to also stand for Graphics. I know it seems to have nothing to do with the file format at hand, but it's possible. I mean, they made PDF, which has nothing to do with Firearms even though the ATF's F stands for that. It's just an Adobe thing, I guess.
No evidence? Other than that the memo was typed on a typewriter that didn't exist 30 years ago (IIRC, it was justified - no military typist would have been capable or willing to do that). It was so obviously faked.
As to where Bush was - he never claimed he was anywhere but flying around in the ANG. Kerry claims to be a war hero and makes up all sorts of lies to support it - that's what bothers me. Bush never claimed to be a war hero. Kerry bases his entire "I'm tough" image on his "heroism" in Vietnam. Never mind that he came back and protested against the war and undermined the safety of the comrades he left behind. Never mind that he came back because he shot himself in the foot a few times and conned doctors that never worked on him that his bandaids justified Purple Hearts. Never mind that once his exploitation of that honorable medal was through, he pretended to throw it on the White House lawn (it was actually another veteran's medal - Kerry still has his, another lie). Never mind that he admits to shooting a wounded, fleeing VC in the back. Pretty heroic, I must say. Then the whole Cambodia lie - first he claims that it was "seared" in his mind that he was there on Christmas Day, 1968. Then it turns out that can't have been, so he revises his story. He claims the Khmer Rouge were firing at him - never mind that they didn't enter the fighting until the 1970's.
Yep - purely honest and heroic, that John Kerry. I'm sure glad he's going to fight a "more sensitive war on terror".
It never ceases to amaze me how vastly and blindly left-wing the Slashdot audience really is. And before you accuse me of being blindly right-wing: I'm not right-wing or blind. But John Kerry will not get my vote. When the British think a guy is too pompous to be our President, something's definitely up.
You could include a porn removal service to make it a package deal.
You're demonstrating a lot of evidence to support your claim, here. I sadly don't have time to sift through all zero sources.
The media would never have rolled over to the extent that they have for Bush even as recently as 15-20 years ago.
You're joking, right? I suppose that CBS was "rolling over for Bush" when they started this whole mess.
Sure, here's the New York Post's article.
Or did you want a legitimate source? Try USA Today.
I don't even know how to check when I got my account.
Mine got upgraded almost a month ago, newb.
You spelled Bob wrong.
And also for the record, you stink!
Come now the plaintiff, Sir Grammar Nazi Supreme.
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Come now the defendant, Slashdot Anonymous Coward.
echo '0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com' | cat >> /etc/hosts
/etc/hosts
Here's the problem with the new generation of Unix users - they think that, just because Unix is a collection of small utilities that can be used to achieve great results, they must utilize as many tools as possible in solving the simplest problems.
echo '0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com' >>
That doesn't make it any less stupid or more creative. :P
I thought we were done spelling words incorrectly to make them cute. :/
Right - dot-com-bubble economics are far better than trickle-down.
My guess is that they're waiting for John Kerry to start fighting a "more sensitive war" on them.
That, good sir, is the correct answer. You've successfully recognized the proper application of the Chewbacca Defense.
Are you claiming that the Bush administration deliberately and intentionally "hosed down" the economy starting in the year before Bush took office?
I'm with you on this. I decided to go for a career change, and am in law school right now, but I spent the past year working in IT and it was around April that things started really picking up, with some initial near-opportunities running back to October '03.
Things are truly looking up. If you can weather the last of the storm as it passes through, you can do alright.
So why was the economy under Clinton such a praiseworthy thing, but at the same levels under Bush it's something to vote against him for?
Thank you. And, to your sibling poster: See my first post on this story and tell me if I'm saying that the economy sucks because of any one man.