Why the hell does a command-line tool require.NET 2.0, especially if it's just parsing a text file? Other than the obvious insanities, of course.
Heck, if the thing (OpenXML) was properly documented, one could just write a perl script to do the job.
And as someone who's worked with the Office2003 XML formats...would it have killed them to have it tabbed out at all?
Good thing I already have a PC that does whatever the hell I want it to. Hell, I'll dig out the "old-skool" games (you know, the ones that made up for limitations on eye-candy for gameplay) and play those.
Personally, I've always seen the relationship of eyecandy to gameplay to be something of a zero-sum deal: you can't seemingly have both at the same time. If you have a lot of eye-candy, you see gameplay slip.
Now, games such as the original Half Life (good gameplay and good eyecandy for the time) are an exception, as are titles like Halo, which is pretty ho-hum on both counts. Console games seem to be effected by this "Proportionality Rule" moreso than PC games, in my experience.
Should we write our congressmen? Become rich and hire the mob to find these people and break some knees?
The latter has a chance of working (besides, it'd make me feel better). The latter wouldn't do a thing and stands a high chance of introducing its own problems. So, who wants to fire up a nonprofit dedicated to ending spam/phishing by means of Cousin Vinnie?
Good interview, bringing up sound points on the vulnerability of users to electronic attacks. Social Engineering (aka BSing the operator) has been around forever as a valuable tool in any attacker's arsenal.
The problem with a security-minded addon is, most appropriately, whether or not a user will bother to employ it. I can see multiple websites deploying the server side of DSS, but I can see all but a small niche of users not installing the client side, instead relying on their own (generally wrong) assumption that they don't need it. And how long until Microsoft implements its own (propietary, closed-source) 'solution'? How long until it's on and enabled by default on the majority browser? Even then, are we (the idiot users) going to pay attention to the glaring signposts or allow ourselves to be fooled?
Only time will tell, I think... and yet I still believe that Social Engineering (and Reverse Social Engineering) are going to be with us on the electronic environment forever.
Q: Why is this modded Informative/Insightful in a transparent ploy to get my nick on this comment thread (for the FBI's followup raids upon our homes and workplaces) when Funny seems much more appropriate...
If you can get two thirds of the state legislatures to call for a constitutional convention, you can bring in an amendment in that way.
Ever notice that there's no stipulations as to exactly what can happen at a constitutional convention? At all? It feels like we're just handing our Constitution over to the delegates and saying "do whatever."
Personally, I think that's one of the reasons why that "second route" to an amendment has never been used... ignoring the fact that you'd need a lot more political firepower to get 3/4rds of the state legistlations to do anything (and IIRC, it is 3/4 of legistlatures).
I do see a lot of potential for this technology for embedded systems use--particulary 'smart maps'--if we can embed display control electronics physically closer to the displays (lighter, thinner, etc). Once costs are researched down, some really neat shit is in the offing (OLED + nanowidth signal processors, anyone?).
Simple, it's more fun for the Gov't this way!
Besides, if they manage to off themselves (or each other) in their attempts, more room for the rest of the applicants.
I have no problem with mining Earth's moon... that is, if it had one. It does have a satellite, so I guess we can mine the hell out of that. After all, most of it probably used to be part of Earth anyway.
Hrm... a batch of transistors that'll relay at clock speeds of 350Ghz. Then they tossed on their P4 cooler and watched it superconduct. Why am I not surprised at 500Ghz? At 4.5K, it's clearly superconducting.
And the phone comparison... I like EE Times, but that writer needs to be shot. The editor deserves a slap on the wrists for letting it in (unless they're referring to some strange property of phones).
"For the first time, Georgia Tech and IBM have demonstrated that speeds of half a trillion cycles per second can be achieved in a commercial silicon-based technology, using large wafers and silicon-compatible low-cost manufacturing techniques,[and absurd cooling that allows us to leverage the properties of superconductivity]" (fixed).
IBM: Design it Today, Figure out what the hell we're going to do with it 7 years from Tomorrow.
(And yes, I'd get a microprocessor designed with these ubersistors).
...I posted the above, unfortunately the system decided to mark me as 'not logged in' for that one post, even though before and after I see myself as logged in.
Heck, they have a moonbase and a death ray
Those are two prerequisites to being an Evil Genius. I mean, what diabolical megavillian doesn't have a moonbase and a death ray?
"my juice is flowin' like a man with a mission / my words are blowing your minds into a submission /
you can't copy my style 'cuz you ain't an original / DRM on my record 'cuz my lyrics aren't replaceable"
Of course, there are reason why I am not a rapper... or a poet...
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Why the hell does a command-line tool require .NET 2.0, especially if it's just parsing a text file? Other than the obvious insanities, of course.
Heck, if the thing (OpenXML) was properly documented, one could just write a perl script to do the job.
And as someone who's worked with the Office2003 XML formats...would it have killed them to have it tabbed out at all?
1. Write malware for OSX 2. ??? 3. Profit!
...shut up about Cars?
Good thing I already have a PC that does whatever the hell I want it to. Hell, I'll dig out the "old-skool" games (you know, the ones that made up for limitations on eye-candy for gameplay) and play those. Personally, I've always seen the relationship of eyecandy to gameplay to be something of a zero-sum deal: you can't seemingly have both at the same time. If you have a lot of eye-candy, you see gameplay slip. Now, games such as the original Half Life (good gameplay and good eyecandy for the time) are an exception, as are titles like Halo, which is pretty ho-hum on both counts. Console games seem to be effected by this "Proportionality Rule" moreso than PC games, in my experience.
Question: Should the parent be modded troll or flamebait?
The latter has a chance of working (besides, it'd make me feel better). The latter wouldn't do a thing and stands a high chance of introducing its own problems.
So, who wants to fire up a nonprofit dedicated to ending spam/phishing by means of Cousin Vinnie?
Good interview, bringing up sound points on the vulnerability of users to electronic attacks. Social Engineering (aka BSing the operator) has been around forever as a valuable tool in any attacker's arsenal.
The problem with a security-minded addon is, most appropriately, whether or not a user will bother to employ it. I can see multiple websites deploying the server side of DSS, but I can see all but a small niche of users not installing the client side, instead relying on their own (generally wrong) assumption that they don't need it. And how long until Microsoft implements its own (propietary, closed-source) 'solution'? How long until it's on and enabled by default on the majority browser? Even then, are we (the idiot users) going to pay attention to the glaring signposts or allow ourselves to be fooled?
Only time will tell, I think... and yet I still believe that Social Engineering (and Reverse Social Engineering) are going to be with us on the electronic environment forever.
Q: Why is this modded Informative/Insightful in a transparent ploy to get my nick on this comment thread (for the FBI's followup raids upon our homes and workplaces) when Funny seems much more appropriate...
...Shit, I fell for it.
Ever notice that there's no stipulations as to exactly what can happen at a constitutional convention? At all? It feels like we're just handing our Constitution over to the delegates and saying "do whatever."
Personally, I think that's one of the reasons why that "second route" to an amendment has never been used... ignoring the fact that you'd need a lot more political firepower to get 3/4rds of the state legistlations to do anything (and IIRC, it is 3/4 of legistlatures).
Cue jokes about chair jokes in 3, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2, -3...
I do see a lot of potential for this technology for embedded systems use--particulary 'smart maps'--if we can embed display control electronics physically closer to the displays (lighter, thinner, etc). Once costs are researched down, some really neat shit is in the offing (OLED + nanowidth signal processors, anyone?).
Simple, it's more fun for the Gov't this way!
Besides, if they manage to off themselves (or each other) in their attempts, more room for the rest of the applicants.
I have no problem with mining Earth's moon... that is, if it had one. It does have a satellite, so I guess we can mine the hell out of that. After all, most of it probably used to be part of Earth anyway.
I've got your Y!M/Linux right here--it's called GAIM.
Hrm... a batch of transistors that'll relay at clock speeds of 350Ghz. Then they tossed on their P4 cooler and watched it superconduct. Why am I not surprised at 500Ghz? At 4.5K, it's clearly superconducting. And the phone comparison... I like EE Times, but that writer needs to be shot. The editor deserves a slap on the wrists for letting it in (unless they're referring to some strange property of phones). "For the first time, Georgia Tech and IBM have demonstrated that speeds of half a trillion cycles per second can be achieved in a commercial silicon-based technology, using large wafers and silicon-compatible low-cost manufacturing techniques,[and absurd cooling that allows us to leverage the properties of superconductivity]" (fixed). IBM: Design it Today, Figure out what the hell we're going to do with it 7 years from Tomorrow. (And yes, I'd get a microprocessor designed with these ubersistors).
...I posted the above, unfortunately the system decided to mark me as 'not logged in' for that one post, even though before and after I see myself as logged in.
Hrm... what about "Snarky"?
Heck, they have a moonbase and a death ray Those are two prerequisites to being an Evil Genius. I mean, what diabolical megavillian doesn't have a moonbase and a death ray?