Tthe ISO standard was revised long after Office 2010 had been in development; supporting the changes would have supposedly delayed the release too much.
Office 2010 does support the "transitional" OOXML format, and has read support for the proper ISO OOXML format. source
not only that, but it's also proprietary, aka directX. So they're paving the way for, well, nothing.
Really? How many platforms do you think Windows Internet Explorer is targeting?
They're not asking developers to code pages in DirectX, they're using it on the back end to accelerate page rendering. Which is a Good Thing. It's dumb to ignore hardware acceleration and try to do everything in software just because it's easier.
But, I'll bet Firefox devs will release their Direct2D version before IE exits "developer preview" stage.
We can't just default on our debt and "bankrupt China" because China is far from the only holder of our debt. We would bankrupt almost every government and bank worldwide - almost any institution that holds any amount of money holds it in US Treasury bonds, because even with such low interest they'd lose billions keeping it in cash.
Even if we accept wiping out half the world's wealth, they don't "need" our debt. We need them to keep financing our debt - otherwise our government collapses. When was the last time we had a balanced budget? We can get away with that because the rest of the world buys our debt - which stops the minute we default.
Not to mention the free-falling dollar, as other posters warned about.
You'll be able to watch from the safety of your Windows computers, too. Most of these take advantage of exploits that were patched ages ago - SpyEye is simply cannibalizing Zeus' market.
There's a finite number of negligently unpatched computers out there - and Zeus exists because small businesses do banking on them.
Because raising the price causes the demand for mail to go down
Econfag here, ready to nitpick. Saying "demand goes down" implies that nobody wants mail delivery anymore, at any price. What you mean is that less is demanded at the higher price than the current price.
Like you say, raising prices can easily lead to less profit. But, how much more or less profit you make depends on the shape of the demand curve for mail delivery, not whether or not you have high variable costs or sunk costs. (Assuming you are still covering your marginal costs.) I'd suspect that the demand for mail delivery is rather inelastic; a slight bump in prices probably wouldn't cause people to boycott package delivery.
And if it's already unprofitable in Scandinavia, none of it matters anyway. If profit isn't the primary reason to provide mail delivery, the post office won't be disbanded because it was slightly less profitable this year than last.
Other than that, you have a point. You can't just ratchet up prices to a million dollars a package because you want to save money by "delivering" only scanned mail.
Come on - is that all? There HAS to be a way I can spend 5 times that to play a video game.
TFA suggested purchasing two of these $500 cards, three $400 120Hz monitors, and a $200 NVIDIA stereoscopic vision kit. That'll let you game in 3D across three 1080p monitors.
So, you can spend $1400 in accessories to match your $1000 cards. And then, you know, buy the rest of the computer. Not quite five times more, but I'm still salivating over getting my hands on such a setup some day...
Let's assume that splicing becomes so incredibly beneficial that it's required to do any meaningful work - you can't get a job at all with inferior genes because you just couldn't perform.
In that case, why wouldn't companies provide it for free to all of their workers? If strength lets you produce $100 worth of widgets an hour instead of $50, the ROI would be rather high. It would be like any other kind of investment.
In fact, it could be good for the worker. A lot of capital is labor replacing - you can buy one machine to do the work of 100 workers. If you can augment the worker - say, the machine is only as good as 50 workers now - that completely changes the demand for machines versus people.
No, it's just the corn industry. The corn belt states are stupidly influential, and have managed to maintain sugar tariffs and corn subsidies. If you can get real sugar, it would be much more expensive to use than corn syrup.
Nobody else seems to care. It directly benefits a lot of states, and the image of the Great American Small Family Farm has persisted in the popular imagination since we told the British where to stick their import taxes. If people are even aware of the subsidies, they're not seen as "handouts to big Agribusiness", but help to the mostly non-existent poor struggling farmers.
Most other businesses are still considered "evil." Not sure why agriculture gets a free pass.
Note, I don't mean to be insulting by this, I'm genuinely interested...
Thanks for minding our delicate nationalist sensibilities. Brittle people like me appreciate it.
It would be nifty if any devices actually had display port of any type. The biggest advantage over HDMI/DVI is that it supports higher resolutions, except that the phone is only outputting 720p.
The Java VM has frequent security updates. Our public labs don't get those updates (they're Frozen), and staff/faculty don't take the time to let the auto-updater run.
Flash is another biggy, but there'd be heck to pay if YouTube quit working.
A few suggestions from my experience as a technician:
Keep vulnerable programs off of your base image. We saw infections go down dramatically after removing Java and replacing Adobe Acrobat Reader with something else.
Uninstall Internet Explorer if you can. Unless you're running Window 7, the easiest way to "uninstall" it is change the permissions on iexplore.exe to Deny for the Everyone account.
Lock down computers as much as you can with Group Policy, especially if you have a Windows Server infrastructure.
If you can, deploy Windows Steady State if you're using XP or purchase Faronics DeepFreeze. They're both ways of preventing permanent changes to your base image (installation of programs, modification of files) by users. If a Frozen machine gets infected, reboot it.
I'm not sure how a bash interpreter is any more of a feature than a Windows command interpreter, especially after PowerShell. Bash can run bash scripts, cmd.exe can run batch files, and WSH lets you do VBScript and a bunch of other crazy stuff.
NTFS has been journaled since forever, for certain values of forever approaching Windows NT.
I'd rather use IE6 than Safari, but that's personal preference. I'd like to see how Safari held up to Windows 2000's browser.
Is PDF reading really an OS feature? Either Acrobat Reader will come preinstalled, or you can download one of a million free viewers. I'll give you PDF saving, but it's a one-click feature in Office 2007 and OpenOffice.
DVD playback is built into Vista and up. XP either had playback software preinstalled, or it came bundled with DVD drives. Or you downloaded a codec.
Windows 7 runs on a Pentium 4 with 512 MB RAM and Intel graphics. Add "modern" Intel graphics to the mix or a $40 graphics card and you get Aero.
XP's, Vista's, and 7's bootloader can boot other operating systems. On campus we have the XP bootloader giving you a choice between Ubuntu or XP.
XP had indexed search as an update. Also IPv6.
However, I will give you:
Rearranging taskbar icons. Control over their placement and grouping always bothered me.
Multiple desktops. However, I'll see your desktops and raise you "my menu bar appears on the wrong monitor when I run applications on my secondary monitor."
Pre-Vista large icons.
Running everything as root pre-Vista.
"Worse than Windows 2000" is probably a bit of a stretch. However, almost all of the first list are also present in Windows 2000, and I guarantee you 2000's system requirements are better.
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I have no sympathy for anyone who puts personal data of that kind on an unsecured device. They made their bed, they can sleep in it.
And hopefully I can, too! ^_^
Old troll is old. If the originator of that comment was actually real, she hasn't been on /. for a while.
Well, I thought it was funny. I also don't carry most of my organs with me exactly for that reason.
Tthe ISO standard was revised long after Office 2010 had been in development; supporting the changes would have supposedly delayed the release too much.
Office 2010 does support the "transitional" OOXML format, and has read support for the proper ISO OOXML format. source
not only that, but it's also proprietary, aka directX. So they're paving the way for, well, nothing.
Really? How many platforms do you think Windows Internet Explorer is targeting?
They're not asking developers to code pages in DirectX, they're using it on the back end to accelerate page rendering. Which is a Good Thing. It's dumb to ignore hardware acceleration and try to do everything in software just because it's easier.
But, I'll bet Firefox devs will release their Direct2D version before IE exits "developer preview" stage.
We can't just default on our debt and "bankrupt China" because China is far from the only holder of our debt. We would bankrupt almost every government and bank worldwide - almost any institution that holds any amount of money holds it in US Treasury bonds, because even with such low interest they'd lose billions keeping it in cash.
Even if we accept wiping out half the world's wealth, they don't "need" our debt. We need them to keep financing our debt - otherwise our government collapses. When was the last time we had a balanced budget? We can get away with that because the rest of the world buys our debt - which stops the minute we default.
Not to mention the free-falling dollar, as other posters warned about.
You'll be able to watch from the safety of your Windows computers, too. Most of these take advantage of exploits that were patched ages ago - SpyEye is simply cannibalizing Zeus' market.
There's a finite number of negligently unpatched computers out there - and Zeus exists because small businesses do banking on them.
Because raising the price causes the demand for mail to go down
Econfag here, ready to nitpick. Saying "demand goes down" implies that nobody wants mail delivery anymore, at any price. What you mean is that less is demanded at the higher price than the current price.
Like you say, raising prices can easily lead to less profit. But, how much more or less profit you make depends on the shape of the demand curve for mail delivery, not whether or not you have high variable costs or sunk costs. (Assuming you are still covering your marginal costs.) I'd suspect that the demand for mail delivery is rather inelastic; a slight bump in prices probably wouldn't cause people to boycott package delivery.
And if it's already unprofitable in Scandinavia, none of it matters anyway. If profit isn't the primary reason to provide mail delivery, the post office won't be disbanded because it was slightly less profitable this year than last.
Other than that, you have a point. You can't just ratchet up prices to a million dollars a package because you want to save money by "delivering" only scanned mail.
Missing from the summary: A photo of the ant-eating dinosaur.
Come on - is that all? There HAS to be a way I can spend 5 times that to play a video game.
TFA suggested purchasing two of these $500 cards, three $400 120Hz monitors, and a $200 NVIDIA stereoscopic vision kit. That'll let you game in 3D across three 1080p monitors.
So, you can spend $1400 in accessories to match your $1000 cards. And then, you know, buy the rest of the computer. Not quite five times more, but I'm still salivating over getting my hands on such a setup some day...
Let's assume that splicing becomes so incredibly beneficial that it's required to do any meaningful work - you can't get a job at all with inferior genes because you just couldn't perform.
In that case, why wouldn't companies provide it for free to all of their workers? If strength lets you produce $100 worth of widgets an hour instead of $50, the ROI would be rather high. It would be like any other kind of investment.
In fact, it could be good for the worker. A lot of capital is labor replacing - you can buy one machine to do the work of 100 workers. If you can augment the worker - say, the machine is only as good as 50 workers now - that completely changes the demand for machines versus people.
We already pay people not to farm. Depending on where you are and what you grew, you can get paid to have your land lay fallow instead.
Any particular reason capitalism "chokes on itself" if it can't expand?
That was the logic behind our "containment" policy with regards to the communism during the cold war and slavery prior to the civil war.
No. No, they're not.
I work for tech support on campus, primarily cleaning student laptops. I have yet to see one that didn't have limewire on it.
Maybe you can argue that they're still smarter, but evidently not by enough to have a meaningful chance of avoiding infections.
No, it's just the corn industry. The corn belt states are stupidly influential, and have managed to maintain sugar tariffs and corn subsidies. If you can get real sugar, it would be much more expensive to use than corn syrup.
Nobody else seems to care. It directly benefits a lot of states, and the image of the Great American Small Family Farm has persisted in the popular imagination since we told the British where to stick their import taxes. If people are even aware of the subsidies, they're not seen as "handouts to big Agribusiness", but help to the mostly non-existent poor struggling farmers.
Most other businesses are still considered "evil." Not sure why agriculture gets a free pass.
Note, I don't mean to be insulting by this, I'm genuinely interested...
Thanks for minding our delicate nationalist sensibilities. Brittle people like me appreciate it.
My libertarian streak would have a Paulgasm if we stopped subsidizing corn.
Hope that answers your question.
It would be nifty if any devices actually had display port of any type. The biggest advantage over HDMI/DVI is that it supports higher resolutions, except that the phone is only outputting 720p.
I would much rather have a small, standard connector than a larger, proprietary connector.
Still not sure why that's a better solution than putting an HDMI connector.
Using an HDMI jack doesn't mean all the video you take on your phone is automagically DRM'd. I'm not sure why you're objecting.
Do you suggest to fit a component jack onto a 4"x2" phone and then match it with an RCA stereo jack?
So, even moderation in moderation... That's meta-moderation.
The Java VM has frequent security updates. Our public labs don't get those updates (they're Frozen), and staff/faculty don't take the time to let the auto-updater run.
Flash is another biggy, but there'd be heck to pay if YouTube quit working.
Very overkill, unless you have roaming profiles. I've found most people like to be able to save their documents.
But, as you say, it does rock.
A few suggestions from my experience as a technician:
You have a point. Wobbly windows - the best feature of Linux - puts my operating system to shame.
Keep Linux where it belongs - serving websites and running toasters.
Well...
However, I will give you:
I think we were trolled, however.