You have misunderstood me: it's 500 bytes of document's markup per error. So if we suppose that you are right, then Microsoft reaches an astonishing one error per 1.152 bits of useful document information.:)
Hardly so. Being open or closed doesn't directly contribute to the difficulty of complying to the format, except that only the proprietor of a closed format is likely to be compliant to it. Besides, there are document formats which don't take an eternity to become compatible with.
While it's hardly unexpected that Office 2007 document format isn't *cough* ISO compliant, 122k errors for a 60Mb file results into a remarkable ~500 bytes of markup per error.
I really do not understand where Microsoft is heading. They've rammed their miserable OOXML format through - supposedly so they could advertise their product as ISO compliant. But what's their advantage now that their product is shown to be so horribly incompatible?
Forcing drug trade upon a country isn't friendly in my book. Besides, China sees Russia as an example of how dangerous Western influence can be. I know I'd choose living in an oppressive superpower over living in a colonial ruin governed by an overseas empire any day.
I hope I don't offend anyone who finds my thoughts heretical or plain wrong.
The man has sixty billion fucking dollars, why would he want to dodge tax? What would he do with the money? Did it happen to you that perhaps he has sixty billion fucking dollars in the first place because he's been dodging tax (and doing other nasty things) all along?
Hopefully, the stability issues that have been plaguing OOo 2.3 will be fixed too. A dozen or so users of OOo 2.3 for Linux I know have been experiencing more stability-related issues than all the Windows users of OpenOffice I know combined. Can anyone confirm/explain this? Thanks.
Thank you for all your hard work and imagination. And thank you for "The city and the stars", a book about breathtakingly distant future, but a book extremely convincing at the very least. Goodbye, Sir Arthur! You will be missed.:(
Not a valid point any longer: since Qt 4.3 Trolltech has added a so-called "GPL Exception". Basically, they have listed plenty of licenses, such as MIT and Apache, that you can legally use in your project while linking against the GPL-licensed version of Qt. Here: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/license-gpl-exceptions.html/
...different power saving mode I don't understand the dilemma. I don't think you know what that word really means.
A dilemma (Greek - "double proposition") is a problem offering two solutions or possibilities, in particular two solutions neither of which is acceptable. The two options are often described as the horns of a dilemma, neither of which is comfortable.
Da, comrade. The Russian Federation is still fighting against hostile Chechen clans; however, these have been virtually annihilated by now. But this in no way affected election results, because currently Chechnya is controlled by other clans - loyal to the federal government. It's not Putin who enforced near-100% loyalty to one single party there, but the Chechen government. Such things are pretty much the norm for the Caucasian peoples [me belonging to one of them, so I know what I'm speaking].
Google has already won. It is no mere coincidence that Verizon and AT&T are opening up their networks [while Sprint participates in the OpenHandset Alliance]. The weak are dragged by their destiny, the strong follow their destiny, and the wise become destiny themselves. Good job Google!
Have you ever been to Russia? The most vocal politicians [usually right-wing] who get lots of attention in the media [local and otherwise] are the criminal kings who devastated the country during Yeltsin's reign. You've picked the wrong word: they're not being silenced, nobody just listens to them anymore.
I'm not sure how exactly it is Google vs Apache, too, but the Apache License is not the only way ASF is involved in this story: Google's custom Java VM, named Dalvik, is heavily based upon Apache Harmony.
"All Sun cares about is its application," Hiser claimed. "Sun never thought of the format as being more important than the application. Sun's position has always been that interoperability with Microsoft formats is outside the scope of ODF." A solid and justified position, if you ask me. Has this Hiser guy had a heat stroke recently?
We're talking about a country that changes governments like people change underwear. Relax and wait a week. You mean people change underwear once a week? I should have known...
They lack direction. Or at least their direction isn't obvious to outsiders like you and me. Google has always been known for keeping their projects secret.
Looks like the 20% time has side effects. Microsoft has been bashed here regularly for its strategy of entering in all markets it possibly can and observing "what sticks", but now Google is in the same situation, even more so. Agreed on this one. The good thing about Google is its interoperability. Let's just hope it won't be inversely proportional to Google's market share.
Some random Google projects, which were abandoned while stuck in perpetual beta status: ....... Are you trolling or what?
Google Gears is a pretty recent project, and it's being actively developed. Check out their blog; there's a submission every ten days or so, nevermind the real code that gets written.
Google Talk - oh yeah, it's so stagnant that they've actually made a Flash client for it, and are regularly adding features to both. It may be nowhere near as popular as ICQ, but saying that they've abandoned it is insane.
Video and Accelerator - true, these two are generally regarded as failures, although they've said that Video is going to become a video search tool rather than video clip library it has been.
Product Search and Blogger - backend pretty much rewritten from scratch during 2007, according to Google; frontend improvements and features added, too.
Picasa - what about the Linux client and the actively promoted Picasa Web Albums?
I believe you have either been misinformed, or were deliberately trolling, since while your post contains valid points, it's not particularly accurate.
Such a patent, should it be granted, could become a perfect show-stopper for Microsoft's patent FUD and could also wipe out patent trolls as a side effect.
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You have misunderstood me: it's 500 bytes of document's markup per error. So if we suppose that you are right, then Microsoft reaches an astonishing one error per 1.152 bits of useful document information. :)
Hardly so. Being open or closed doesn't directly contribute to the difficulty of complying to the format, except that only the proprietor of a closed format is likely to be compliant to it. Besides, there are document formats which don't take an eternity to become compatible with.
While it's hardly unexpected that Office 2007 document format isn't *cough* ISO compliant, 122k errors for a 60Mb file results into a remarkable ~500 bytes of markup per error.
I really do not understand where Microsoft is heading. They've rammed their miserable OOXML format through - supposedly so they could advertise their product as ISO compliant. But what's their advantage now that their product is shown to be so horribly incompatible?
Forcing drug trade upon a country isn't friendly in my book. Besides, China sees Russia as an example of how dangerous Western influence can be. I know I'd choose living in an oppressive superpower over living in a colonial ruin governed by an overseas empire any day.
I hope I don't offend anyone who finds my thoughts heretical or plain wrong.
GMail started by having invitation-only subscription. Perhaps it's time Google reconsiders the decision to move away from it?
Hopefully, the stability issues that have been plaguing OOo 2.3 will be fixed too. A dozen or so users of OOo 2.3 for Linux I know have been experiencing more stability-related issues than all the Windows users of OpenOffice I know combined. Can anyone confirm/explain this? Thanks.
Thank you for all your hard work and imagination. And thank you for "The city and the stars", a book about breathtakingly distant future, but a book extremely convincing at the very least. Goodbye, Sir Arthur! You will be missed. :(
Not a valid point any longer: since Qt 4.3 Trolltech has added a so-called "GPL Exception". Basically, they have listed plenty of licenses, such as MIT and Apache, that you can legally use in your project while linking against the GPL-licensed version of Qt. Here: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/license-gpl-exceptions.html/
The Google groups page links to a file, which holds symbols of Mars and Venus.
The problem is, we don't want to have one iota of a chance that the aforementioned evidence arrives to us in the form of an interstellar bombardment.
...different power saving mode I don't understand the dilemma. I don't think you know what that word really means. A dilemma (Greek - "double proposition") is a problem offering two solutions or possibilities, in particular two solutions neither of which is acceptable. The two options are often described as the horns of a dilemma, neither of which is comfortable.Da, comrade. The Russian Federation is still fighting against hostile Chechen clans; however, these have been virtually annihilated by now. But this in no way affected election results, because currently Chechnya is controlled by other clans - loyal to the federal government. It's not Putin who enforced near-100% loyalty to one single party there, but the Chechen government. Such things are pretty much the norm for the Caucasian peoples [me belonging to one of them, so I know what I'm speaking].
Google has already won. It is no mere coincidence that Verizon and AT&T are opening up their networks [while Sprint participates in the OpenHandset Alliance]. The weak are dragged by their destiny, the strong follow their destiny, and the wise become destiny themselves. Good job Google!
Have you ever been to Russia? The most vocal politicians [usually right-wing] who get lots of attention in the media [local and otherwise] are the criminal kings who devastated the country during Yeltsin's reign. You've picked the wrong word: they're not being silenced, nobody just listens to them anymore.
You must be new here.
I'm not sure how exactly it is Google vs Apache, too, but the Apache License is not the only way ASF is involved in this story: Google's custom Java VM, named Dalvik, is heavily based upon Apache Harmony.
5) Profit!!!
And ICQ hasn't been updated, AFAIK, since April, while ICQ 5 was released back in 2005 [nearly two years between releases]. Is AOL abandoning ICQ?
Google Gears is a pretty recent project, and it's being actively developed. Check out their blog; there's a submission every ten days or so, nevermind the real code that gets written.
Google Talk - oh yeah, it's so stagnant that they've actually made a Flash client for it, and are regularly adding features to both. It may be nowhere near as popular as ICQ, but saying that they've abandoned it is insane.
Video and Accelerator - true, these two are generally regarded as failures, although they've said that Video is going to become a video search tool rather than video clip library it has been.
Product Search and Blogger - backend pretty much rewritten from scratch during 2007, according to Google; frontend improvements and features added, too.
Picasa - what about the Linux client and the actively promoted Picasa Web Albums?
I believe you have either been misinformed, or were deliberately trolling, since while your post contains valid points, it's not particularly accurate.Such a patent, should it be granted, could become a perfect show-stopper for Microsoft's patent FUD and could also wipe out patent trolls as a side effect.
Patenting patent racketeering = A Good Thing(TM)?
Foxit. Many Windows users here on Slashdot are praising it.
Do they plan to move it to web-based applications as in, say, Google Maps, or to Flash/some other proprietary technology?