that someone actually _payed_ for the report.
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I am currently looking for fundings for a report on wether or not the percentage of people who think that water is wet increased last year or not. VISA, Mastercard virgin sacrifices accepted.
Considering it is the DEFAULT file format for Office 2007 applications, it can contain anything a Microsoft Office Application can produce. Which includes things like I mention in my post, Ink, robust media, graphics, object interactions, etc. It is also highly extensible paving the way for future concepts to easily be added in a STANDARD form that all companies can use, not just MS.
I think you are misusing the word robust. Could be because i speak english as my third language, but i thought robust means something like durable.
Ink and graphics can be integrated without problems into a ODF-document.
If by media you mean videos&such, ODF can do that, too.
While i think that this is a very bad idea, you can integrate OLE-objects into ODF-documents.
What do Interactions have to do with Documents? I thought documents were basically something you could put on paper.
concerning extensibility: both can easily be extendet as they are XML-based. The question is: Which body do you think is more open to change from outside: Microsoft(who developed their format completely without outside input) or the ODF-Alliance, which consists of several totally unrelated companies and projects and whose inner workings are transparent? And last time i checked Microsoft held various patents concerning OpenXML, which they could easily use to stop you from extendind the format.
I however won't do the homework for you if you are too lazy, go look this stuff up, it is easily available with a search. I welcome myself to slashdot, where making claims without baking them up is considered insightful and where questions are considered to be based on laziness.
Hmm, WiFi is simply a logo that says that the devices implements the Wlan-standard corectly. The standard itself was written in committees. Wrong example.
HTML
OpenGL
X window system
POSIX
Bluetooth
ZigBee
USB
etc...
What the fuck do you mean? Where did you get the idea that every single european was a rabid privacy-nut trying to out-nut even EFF?
I never said that.
There are plenty of people I know that use this card-only lifestyle. It's convenient to not have to carry a wallet. On the other hand, you have to balance it against the convenience of using small coins for buying a coke at a vending machine. This has nothing to do with being european or not.
Using cards in europe is as convenient as in the usa. However, cash is still the most-used payment form.
Such a card-only lifestyle would be unthinkable in europe. Not because of lack of vending-points(you can pay practically everywhere with your creditcard), but because of the lack of privacy:
Your card-issuing organization has a profile of your buying-habbits.
You should be even more shocked, as they are currently ruling this country.
The christian part of the name only implies the christian values of tolerance, peace etc. (basically the new testament).
The CDU is open to people of all faiths, to gays, transsexuals and lesbians.
Now you are getting near an interesting Problem: is religion dangerous or harmful?
I believe that fundamentalist religion is dangerous and harmful, both to the believing individuals and the society.
However, i don't think that moderate, peaceful(both in action and rethoric) and tolerant religion is mostly harmless. It even has some positive stabilizing effect on some people.
My attitude towards other people's religion is the attitude i want them to have towards my atheism: I respect their choice. It does not mean that i will take an active part in their rites (like bowing, singing, praying, eating stale cookies and drinking cheap wine), but i will not act distracting or unrespectful. I have an interest in old churches. Whenever i enter one, i take of any headgear i'm wearing, take my hands out of my pockets and stop chewing bubblegum. Not because i fear god, but because i respect other people's feelings.
You are an anti-theist.
I am an atheist (i don't believe that a god exists), but i join my friends in church when they invite me. The rites that they perform may be meaningless to us both, but my presence there means something to my friends.
It is simply arrogant to hang out in a bar during the wedding.
Extremes?
I have noscript, simply because i feel safer that way.
I blocked google-analytics because it slowed down several sites i visit regularily.
When you use google-analytics, how will know how many of your users don't use javascript? It's easy to lose a huge percentage of your visitors.
I understand the joke, but right in this thread having extremely old software is _positive_ ( = long term support).
The Post should have been modded insightful or informative, not funny. It is not a joke in this context.
why this is modded funny is beyond my understanding:
Debian supplies its releases with updates for _ALL_ the software included.
Oldstable still includes KDE 2.2.......
depends on which problem you want to solve.
I really believe that getting rid of Saddam was the right thing to do (would have been even better if someone had had the balls to do it 10 years earlier). However, the _HOW_ was completely fucked up by Rumsfeld (and the other neo-cons).
It should have been clear since day 1 that the iraqi army is not the problem.
Everybody with half-a-brain should have realized that "liberating" iraq would not be welcome by huge parts of the population.
Which war did Rumsfeld help win?
Afghanistan? The Taliban are retaking cities everyday.
Iraq? You know that more US soldiers died after the declaration of "victory" than during the so called "war" ?
This is 1) (the equivalent of) encrypting the document with each recipient's public key so that each of them (and nobody else) can read it, and 2) ensuring that they can't forward the decrypted document to someone I didn't authorize.
I'm a FSF-fan and think the GPL is the way to go, but the CDDL is an OSI approved license. You _can_ modify the code and distribute it. You _can_ do all sorts of stuff with it.
There is a solution for all those problems you mentioned: encryption.
Encryption is nowadays inexpensive (the software is free, and the cpu-cycles used by it don't matter nowadays).
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that someone actually _payed_ for the report. -- I am currently looking for fundings for a report on wether or not the percentage of people who think that water is wet increased last year or not. VISA, Mastercard virgin sacrifices accepted.
I think you are misusing the word robust. Could be because i speak english as my third language, but i thought robust means something like durable.
I however won't do the homework for you if you are too lazy, go look this stuff up, it is easily available with a search. I welcome myself to slashdot, where making claims without baking them up is considered insightful and where questions are considered to be based on laziness.Ink and graphics can be integrated without problems into a ODF-document.
If by media you mean videos&such, ODF can do that, too.
While i think that this is a very bad idea, you can integrate OLE-objects into ODF-documents.
What do Interactions have to do with Documents? I thought documents were basically something you could put on paper.
concerning extensibility: both can easily be extendet as they are XML-based. The question is: Which body do you think is more open to change from outside: Microsoft(who developed their format completely without outside input) or the ODF-Alliance, which consists of several totally unrelated companies and projects and whose inner workings are transparent? And last time i checked Microsoft held various patents concerning OpenXML, which they could easily use to stop you from extendind the format.
Until you define "robust feature", i will consider you a fud-spewing troll. Which feature in OpenXML is ODF lacking?
Hmm, WiFi is simply a logo that says that the devices implements the Wlan-standard corectly. The standard itself was written in committees. Wrong example. HTML OpenGL X window system POSIX Bluetooth ZigBee USB etc...
Huh?
What the fuck do you mean? Where did you get the idea that every single european was a rabid privacy-nut trying to out-nut even EFF?
I never said that.There are plenty of people I know that use this card-only lifestyle. It's convenient to not have to carry a wallet. On the other hand, you have to balance it against the convenience of using small coins for buying a coke at a vending machine. This has nothing to do with being european or not.
Using cards in europe is as convenient as in the usa. However, cash is still the most-used payment form.You mean the fact Novell is a partner with the Hula-alternative Scalix?
Such a card-only lifestyle would be unthinkable in europe. Not because of lack of vending-points(you can pay practically everywhere with your creditcard), but because of the lack of privacy: Your card-issuing organization has a profile of your buying-habbits.
You should be even more shocked, as they are currently ruling this country. The christian part of the name only implies the christian values of tolerance, peace etc. (basically the new testament). The CDU is open to people of all faiths, to gays, transsexuals and lesbians.
Now you are getting near an interesting Problem: is religion dangerous or harmful? I believe that fundamentalist religion is dangerous and harmful, both to the believing individuals and the society. However, i don't think that moderate, peaceful(both in action and rethoric) and tolerant religion is mostly harmless. It even has some positive stabilizing effect on some people. My attitude towards other people's religion is the attitude i want them to have towards my atheism: I respect their choice. It does not mean that i will take an active part in their rites (like bowing, singing, praying, eating stale cookies and drinking cheap wine), but i will not act distracting or unrespectful. I have an interest in old churches. Whenever i enter one, i take of any headgear i'm wearing, take my hands out of my pockets and stop chewing bubblegum. Not because i fear god, but because i respect other people's feelings.
You are an anti-theist. I am an atheist (i don't believe that a god exists), but i join my friends in church when they invite me. The rites that they perform may be meaningless to us both, but my presence there means something to my friends. It is simply arrogant to hang out in a bar during the wedding.
OpenGL takes care of the graphics. DirectX takes care of: -graphics -network -sound -mouse -keyboard -analog inputs aka joysticks
Extremes? I have noscript, simply because i feel safer that way. I blocked google-analytics because it slowed down several sites i visit regularily. When you use google-analytics, how will know how many of your users don't use javascript? It's easy to lose a huge percentage of your visitors.
I surf without javascript and have adblocked the analytics-domain. If you rely on google analytics, you won't see me. Log-based stats are way better.
I understand the joke, but right in this thread having extremely old software is _positive_ ( = long term support). The Post should have been modded insightful or informative, not funny. It is not a joke in this context.
why this is modded funny is beyond my understanding: Debian supplies its releases with updates for _ALL_ the software included. Oldstable still includes KDE 2.2 .......
depends on which problem you want to solve. I really believe that getting rid of Saddam was the right thing to do (would have been even better if someone had had the balls to do it 10 years earlier). However, the _HOW_ was completely fucked up by Rumsfeld (and the other neo-cons).
It should have been clear since day 1 that the iraqi army is not the problem. Everybody with half-a-brain should have realized that "liberating" iraq would not be welcome by huge parts of the population.
Which war did Rumsfeld help win? Afghanistan? The Taliban are retaking cities everyday. Iraq? You know that more US soldiers died after the declaration of "victory" than during the so called "war" ?
There still is natural selection: the rich can afford it, the poor can't.
Thank you, but i prefer to plan my (sexual) life according to _my_ rules and not according to the rules of some shepperds who lived 4000 years ago.
I'm a FSF-fan and think the GPL is the way to go, but the CDDL is an OSI approved license. You _can_ modify the code and distribute it. You _can_ do all sorts of stuff with it.
There is a solution for all those problems you mentioned: encryption. Encryption is nowadays inexpensive (the software is free, and the cpu-cycles used by it don't matter nowadays).
Ok, explain me: How does DRM allow the user more freedom?