Comment Has anyone actualkly looked at the study? (Score 1) 201
The study this article references is primarily concerned with the effects on wildlife and mostly talks about bats and moths.
Comment He's a fanatic (Score 1) 459
RMS is a fundametalist free software fanatic, unwilling to compromise and unmoving in his stance, not because it is right but becuse it is his.
Comment Re:Serial Port anywhere? (Score 2) 143
The modem is a Sierra Wireless AirPrime Q Series Module
Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts 428
Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.
Comment Not Really Surprising (Score 1) 355
From what I gather the previous Microsoft file formats are for the most part a dump of the internal program structures rather than an unambiguous representation of the document (pretty much an entire record of the actions of the user to create the document and the program state at each step, not simply an encoding of the documents appearance and any associated meta-data).
I suspect that the OOXML format is similarly a large portion of the program state encoded as XML (pretty much exactly the old file format encoded as XML) and that a lot of it was generated directly from the source documentation i.e. somewhere in the Office 2007 source will be a data structure with a member called 'autoSpaceLikeWord95' and a corresponding comment of 'Emulate Word 95 Full Width Character Spacing'
The implementation is probably a no-brainer from the developers point of view. With all of the legacy source available it would be much easier pack the essentially unmodified data into a new container (requiring only minor transformations), and keep the old internal format.
I suspect that the OOXML format is similarly a large portion of the program state encoded as XML (pretty much exactly the old file format encoded as XML) and that a lot of it was generated directly from the source documentation i.e. somewhere in the Office 2007 source will be a data structure with a member called 'autoSpaceLikeWord95' and a corresponding comment of 'Emulate Word 95 Full Width Character Spacing'
The implementation is probably a no-brainer from the developers point of view. With all of the legacy source available it would be much easier pack the essentially unmodified data into a new container (requiring only minor transformations), and keep the old internal format.
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