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qcomp writes:
The votes are in and Microsoft has lost for now, reports the FFII's campaign website OOXML. The 2/3 majority needed to proceed with the fast-track standarization has not been achieved. Now the standard will head to the ballot resolution meeting to address the hundreds of technical commentsa submitted along with the "no" (as well as some "yes" votes.
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CapedOpossum writes:
Let the voices chanting apocalyptic visions once again be heard! Playing God? Hell, we're re-inventing the concept! From the article:
"Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of 'wet artificial life.' ... 'It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it,' said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. ... Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could 'run amok,' but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem."
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barbarask writes:
Serdar Yegulalp looks at some of the issues that developers still have to deal with when they're putting together sites for readers who could be using any of the browsers out there: IE6 (and some companies still haven't upgraded), IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, what-have-you. He talks about proprietary tags, implementations of layout functions, JavaScript, and ActiveX, among others. He's got suggestions for how to fix some of the problems, but with others it's a matter of trying to make users do what they should (but won't) do.