Sounds like it's not even necessary to keep the browser open. It sounds like the web application will accept the price from the browser instead of reading it from a database.
Not really -- next time around will be at a higher difficulty level: more tempting sins, lower faith levels, smarter devils, bigger deserts, longer floods, more plagues. A real challenge!
Alright, I'll grant you that I didn't read the legalese. But it seems that Sun promises not to sue you if you don't sue them -- something which is necessary in today's America with software patents.
I don't get your arguement that because you don't like the specification it is any less open.
It has nothing to do with liking or not liking it. If the proprietary-format-to-OOXML-converter just puts everything in those behave-exactly-like-MSWord-95 tags, then it is in fact closed, even though it looks open -- only MSWord 95 or someone with detailed knowledge of how it works knows how to display the document.
Bullshit. Neither of those are reverse engineered. OpenOffice's binary format is just a zip file containing XML files, so there's not much to reverse engineer. ODF is similar, I believe.
MS' OOXML is hideously complicated, and has lots of things in it that demand bug-for-bug compatibility with lots of closed-source programs (e.g.: <display-like-MSWord-95>... </...>). It'd be just as bad as if they'd just put the entire MSWord binary DOC file inside CDATA[[...]] brackets. So it's far less open than ODF.
Also, ODF isn't patented. That's kind of the whole point.
Sounds to me like they weren't happy with a strong Friday night, and tried to get more viewers on other nights by spreading the shows around. Problem is, it doesn't work that way.
~> ftp www.workplace.domain Connected to www.workplace.domain. 220 Microsoft FTP Service Name: shag 331 Password required for shag. Password: 230 User shag logged in. Remote system type is Windows_NT. ftp> cd/mis-typed/path 550/mis-typed/path: The system cannot find the file specified. ftp> put index.html local: index.html remote: index.html 227 Entering Passive Mode. 125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting. 226 Transfer complete. ftp>
I'm probably talking out of my own dark star here, but can the additional gravity observed not be caused by parallel universes? That way, the dark matter exists (possibly as normal matter we just can't see) in parallel universes, and we observe the effects of its gravity on the visible matter in our universe.
That kind of money is also enough to bribe a registrar employee into registering a fake bank. Sure, it'll come on top of the $50K domain name, but that doesn't make that much difference.
MP3 players are portable, are they not? Simply carry the one you're listening to with you, and the only delay you'll get is relativistic, which (1) is negligible at the velocities of typical slashdotters, and (2) nullified by carrying the player with you.
I believe Apple makes a suitable device for this purpose.
(Obligatory Futurama Quote)
From the Futurama episode Love and Rocket:
Fry: Wow Bender, are you and the ship an item? I mean, I know you're both items but -- how can you date a ship anyway? It'd be like me dating a really fat lady. And living inside her. And she'd be all like -- <ship noises> Bender: Fry, in order for me to get busy at maximum efficiency, I need a girl with a big four hundred ton booty! Leela: Bender, dating your co-worker and primary mode of transportation is immoral, illogical and a violation of interstellar shipping statute 437-B. Bender: That's what makes it so nasty!
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And guns are meant to shoot tin cans, cardboard targets, and deer, nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?
Moonshine
That certainly explains all those spaceships we keep finding in archaeological digs!
I wonder if those whales are as traumatized like many elephants are.
You're making some good points, but this statement, isn't it a little speciesist?
What if it would save someone like Hitler*? Or would you not call that a human being?
*) Godwin note: you started it!
Sounds like it's not even necessary to keep the browser open. It sounds like the web application will accept the price from the browser instead of reading it from a database.
I'm running Dapper on a 512 meg RAM machine (an antique if you will), and it rarely hits swap at all.
Not really -- next time around will be at a higher difficulty level: more tempting sins, lower faith levels, smarter devils, bigger deserts, longer floods, more plagues. A real challenge!
Twenty dollars? But I wanted a peanut!
Yeah, and did you see those Terran Reapers? Assault Marines without chainswords.
The black hole was kinda cool though. And no cool kill animations.
Alright, I'll grant you that I didn't read the legalese. But it seems that Sun promises not to sue you if you don't sue them -- something which is necessary in today's America with software patents.
It has nothing to do with liking or not liking it. If the proprietary-format-to-OOXML-converter just puts everything in those behave-exactly-like-MSWord-95 tags, then it is in fact closed, even though it looks open -- only MSWord 95 or someone with detailed knowledge of how it works knows how to display the document.
Bullshit. Neither of those are reverse engineered. OpenOffice's binary format is just a zip file containing XML files, so there's not much to reverse engineer. ODF is similar, I believe.
... </...>). It'd be just as bad as if they'd just put the entire MSWord binary DOC file inside CDATA[[...]] brackets. So it's far less open than ODF.
MS' OOXML is hideously complicated, and has lots of things in it that demand bug-for-bug compatibility with lots of closed-source programs (e.g.: <display-like-MSWord-95>
Also, ODF isn't patented. That's kind of the whole point.
Yeah, especially the part about the Dell XPS Gaming laptops -- they're targetted at people who like blinking lights!
Sounds to me like they weren't happy with a strong Friday night, and tried to get more viewers on other nights by spreading the shows around. Problem is, it doesn't work that way.
I'm probably talking out of my own dark star here, but can the additional gravity observed not be caused by parallel universes? That way, the dark matter exists (possibly as normal matter we just can't see) in parallel universes, and we observe the effects of its gravity on the visible matter in our universe.
That kind of money is also enough to bribe a registrar employee into registering a fake bank. Sure, it'll come on top of the $50K domain name, but that doesn't make that much difference.
False positives are bad, especially for really rare events.
He didn't say that he likes to bash Microsoft as much as the next guy, so the jury is still out. That phrase is a sure indicator.
Another easy solution:
MP3 players are portable, are they not? Simply carry the one you're listening to with you, and the only delay you'll get is relativistic, which (1) is negligible at the velocities of typical slashdotters, and (2) nullified by carrying the player with you.
I believe Apple makes a suitable device for this purpose.
But 1.68 million square kilometers? That's a toy compared to an Orbital! At least, that's what Hub says...
More like human steak for aliens following these directions...
(Obligatory Futurama Quote)
From the Futurama episode Love and Rocket:
I think it's to encourage you to experience the good stuff again and avoid the boring meetings in the future.
Those who don't understand UNIX, are doomed to -- oh crap...