Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body

Flying Wallenda writes "Did Adobe make a tactical blunder when it complained to the European Union about Microsoft including support for its XML Paper Specification (XPS) in Windows Vista and Office 2007? Now that Microsoft has decided to submit its 'PDF killer' to a standards-setting organization, Adobe may be regretting its decision. 'Microsoft is looking again at its license in order to make it compatible with open source licenses, which means that the "covenant not to sue" will likely be extended to cover any intellectual property dispute stemming from the simple use or incorporation of XPS. The end result is that using XPS may be considerably more attractive for developers now that the EU has apparently expressed concerns over the license.'"

Re:Word Dilution

[Anonymous Coward]

Fresh from Hans Reiser's hard drive, yo!

I had to think for a few about this title

[vitalyb]

A dead human acrobat submitted his body?
Someone killed a human acrobat and submitted his body?
The murderer was submitted to some kind of law-enforcement?

That is late at night here, however.

Why does Microsoft keep trying to hire The Killers

[WilliamSChips]

I'm amazed that Brandon Flowers doesn't have Bill Gates on some sort of block-list by now.

Re:About 6 years ago...

[Anonymous Coward]

would it be too much to ask that you use hyphens on "as-standard-a-form-as-ASCII-is-today?" You've gotta be thinking about other people reading your english and getting confused. I personally had no idea what you were writing and had to go back and re-read it. Otherwise, solid post!

ECMA is warming up their rubber stamp

[Wesley Felter]

Hey, it worked great for .NET.

Re:About 6 years ago...

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

would it be too much to ask that you use hyphens on "as-standard-a-form-as-ASCII-is-today?" You've gotta be thinking about other people reading your english and getting confused. I personally had no idea what you were writing and had to go back and re-read it.

Yes. Yes-it-would-be too-much-to-ask.

Dick Grayson

[Kenshin]

Someone better tell Dick Grayson (Batman's former Robin) about this acrobat killer. It may be the one that killed his parents.

title made me laugh

[not a cylon]

All I could picture was... "The Hardly Boys, two young whippersnappers with a knack for solving crimes." "Tonight's episode...'The Case of the Acrobat-Killer' "

Re:Word Dilution

[BoberFett]

I'm not a murderer, your honor. I simply removed the occupant of that home so a newer, more functional citizen can occupy that dwelling.

Re:PDF is too complicated

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi there.

Here's some capitals for you, as it looks like your system is lacking them.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

And now some punctuation (which you seem to be missing). ,,,,....'''';;;;""?!

Just copy and paste, and you're good. With judicious use of the above characters, people will be able to understand your posts and maybe you'll get sensible replies. Good luck!

(Note - this comment is to avoid the lameness filter. Apparently the editors are unfamiliar with Mark Twain's letter to the editor of one of his books, in which he presented all the punctuation the editors complained was absent. You need a good chunk of commentary to outweigh the punctuation above. And a bit more.)

Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body

[SFSouthpaw]

for filing a false report.

Re:PDF is too complicated

[alx5000]

how about htmldoc takes a bunch of html files creates a pdf with hyperlinks in it. along with html help workshop from ms its quite easy to go from chm to html to pdf

Was that a lesson for the GP on why English can be way more complicated than PDF?

Re:In all fairness...

[CastrTroy]

I would like to recommend against trying to use sliced bread as a programming language.

Re:In all fairness...

[pilkul]

On the contrary, sliced bread makes an excellent stack-oriented language. One just needs to be careful to butter each slice on the correct side.

Re:Word Dilution

[Lemmy Caution]

It's literally out of control!

Re:Not a thing correct

[earnest murderer]

Look at you, what with your facts and references. It took you so long to write your reply that the moderators have moved on and your reply will long languish at 2, but I love you.

Like a fat kid loves cake.

Re:Word Dilution

[infolib]

In Denmark the Conservative and the Liberal Party are both right wing parties. They currently form the government together.

The name of the liberal party is "Venstre" meaning "left". Go figure.