Post #229,420
10/13/05 2:46:17 AM
10/13/05 9:56:07 PM
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Dave Winer thinks Microsoft is in the right about its XML.
[link|http://archive.scripting.com/2005/10/12#When:12:00:54PM|http://archive.scrip...2#When:12:00:54PM]
After years of maintaining absolute control over user's data in Microsoft Office, the new version promises to give total control to the user, and creates a path for developers to siphon users from Microsoft to new or specialized products. One would think that this would spawn an explosion of new products designed to please Office users but that's not what's happening. A group of large technology companies is proposing a competing set of formats, and has formed an alliance to confuse the market, and at least double the work of any developer who might want to support their products (with almost no installed base) alongside Microsoft's (with a monopolistic dominant installed base). It's not surprising that the group is lead by the detritus of the last generation of tech companies. The thriving companies, Google, Yahoo and others have the good sense to sit this time and money-waster out.
The thing is, [link|http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/12/1610249&tid=102&tid=11|SlashDot just linked] to an [link|http://madpenguin.org/cms/html/62/5304.html|interview with OpenOffice.org's Gary Edwards] who explains that (so far as he can see) Microsoft is threatening take it's bat and ball and go home, when everyone else isn't even playing with it. This is especially interesting because it seems to have taken Microsoft this long to realize that OpenDocument and all it means takes away their Office leverage... Wade. "Insert crowbar. Apply force."
Edited by static
Oct. 13, 2005, 09:56:07 PM EDT
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Post #229,424
10/13/05 3:50:00 AM
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Dave Winer is pretty much a numbskull anyway.
And has always been a bit of a Microsoft apologist, to boot.
So fuck him; why does anyone still give a shit about his opinion?
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #229,432
10/13/05 5:21:47 AM
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He's surprised?
The bottom line is, nobody trusts Microsoft - for good reason.
If I remember correctly Winer was deeply involved with Microsoft in the development of SOAP. Microsoft then tried to pass it off as its own.
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Post #229,435
10/13/05 8:44:34 AM
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You get the Bob Award for the day.
[image|http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif||||]Check your its-es.
-YendorMike
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Post #229,446
10/13/05 10:47:43 AM
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We need a weecode for this.
Peter
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Post #229,452
10/13/05 11:36:02 AM
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No, we REALLY don't
Obnoxious pedants can damn well work at it. No point making it easier for them.
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Post #229,457
10/13/05 12:00:59 PM
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Hear, Hear!
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Post #229,459
10/13/05 12:08:56 PM
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How about us polite pedants?
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Post #229,463
10/13/05 12:40:08 PM
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Well, if you're polite enough, you won't need it... :)
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Post #229,495
10/13/05 5:22:33 PM
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It's a special case
- Contraction
- The cat's out of the bag.
- It's out of the bag.
- Possessive
- The cat's feet are out of the bag.
- It's feet are out of the bag.
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Post #229,497
10/13/05 5:36:22 PM
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Except that the possessive of "it" is "its" not "it's"
I assume this is because the plural of "cat" is "cats", so you need the apostrophe to distinguish the possessive "cat's". But since the plural of "it" is "they", you don't need the apostrophe to tell that "its" is a possessive.
Wow, that's stupid now that I think about it.
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Post #229,498
10/13/05 5:40:31 PM
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Not quite the right reason
"Its" the possessive is like that to distinguish it from the contraction "It's" from "It is". It's a special case; an exception to its more normal form with other nouns.
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Post #229,499
10/13/05 5:55:27 PM
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Its? It's stupid!
If you see the sentence, "It's its." written down, it's unambiguous which its is it's.
If you hear its, which its is its? It's much harder to tell!
Just another way that spoken and written English differ.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #229,500
10/13/05 5:57:18 PM
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Not that hard to tell
"It's its" is quite unambiguous as to its meaning, while "Its it's", being "Its it is" is simply nonsensical.
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Post #229,501
10/13/05 5:59:55 PM
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It's ambiguous
"It's its?"
"It's it's!"
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #229,502
10/13/05 6:26:49 PM
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Ahh, YAN argument for Victor Borge's Audible Punctuation :-)
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Post #229,660
10/15/05 5:08:38 PM
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Fascinating, how so many native speakers of English...
...can have so many theories -- and all be so wrong.
"Its" is neither a contraction, nor a possessive form of a noun or an ordinary (nominative) pronoun; it's a whole 'nother *class* of word, a _possessive pronoun_.
"Its" has the exact same kind of relation to "it" as "his" to "he", "her" and "hers" to "she", "my" and "mine" to "me", and so on. (You'll notice that the other possessive pronouns, "my", "his", "her", etc, don't have any apostrophes either.)
Yes, you were the *most* wrong, Critter, using the damn apostrophe... But you can take some small comfort from the fact that all the guys who pointed out *that* this was wrong of you, were themselves wrong as to *why* it was so.
Now, though, you -- all of you! -- know better... So don't do it again.
HTH.
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #229,685
10/15/05 10:41:35 PM
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Hey.. it's like this-yere
with readers of Holy-scriptures n'stuff too - everybody's got an opinion about what's In one o' them Manuals -- and the loudest never even ackshully read the sucker with any comprehension - just the Readers Disgust Condensed McBook.
(Guessing that Garrison Keillor rarely makes it to your bailiwick?)
Just on Lake Wobegone; a test for the chicanery of your arcanery, extent of your Murican trivia-cache, CRC:
The Whiffenpoof Song
Bowdlerized as a P\ufffdan to English Majors, delivered via nicely in-tune chorus; all refs to personal pronouns in the feminine, commencing -
From the tables down at Mary's ...
and concluding,
..then we'll go and have our nails done and our hair done.
:-\ufffd
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Post #229,686
10/15/05 10:42:45 PM
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its is a polit way to write "grunt"
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Post #229,708
10/16/05 9:03:14 AM
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I's will do it at each and every possible opportunity now..
Its the easiest, cheapest way to get the attention of others without actually having anything pertinent to say. Easy misspellings would be second.
This is only a means of communication. We (BIG generalization) know the language and how to use and abuse it. Typing a draft for a RFC is somewhat different; I have my whole team looking over my shoulder and nitpicking every comma and word usage. Here, we, I, anyway, post in first draft mode as we would speak. As in meatspace, I often think about what I am about to say before spewing, but sometimes I don't. At one end of the posting spectrum, we have people who post in a convoluted style which forces one to make an attempt to understand what is being said. At the other, we have posters who attempt to post in the style of a southern gentleman, parodying a migrant worker quoting a drunken buffalo. In Alaska.
If it makes a difference to the content (uncle jack and the horse, for example), it's not unreasonable to check on the spelling and punctionation. If it goes though without ambiguity, however, the message is still understood. If all you have to do is complain about the syntax, punctuation, and font type, you have way too much time on your hands. If you have something to say, just fucking say it. If you have doubts about whether your sense of humor is understood, or even doubts if you actually have a sense of humor, there are a plethora of emoticons (disgusting little buggers...) that you can use.
We're just here to talk, not bitch about the language. Or write a new and improved (I hate that phrase) dictionary. No, not dictionary.
Picees... place?? oh fuckit, Amy, you do it...
Hugh
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Post #229,711
10/16/05 10:19:30 AM
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(I think we found Hugh's button.)
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Post #229,720
10/16/05 11:47:33 AM
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MWHAAHAAAA!!
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Post #229,731
10/16/05 5:03:26 PM
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"Pisces", perhaps? HTH!
Loved the "punctionation", though.
Hugs 'n' kisses,
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Post #229,732
10/16/05 5:08:42 PM
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...as in "off"?
</edmund_blackadder>
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Post #229,734
10/16/05 5:39:23 PM
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Halleluiah!
Well said, Hugh!
Although sometimes it is fun to razz people for their crappy spelling/punctuation, I agree with you. This place is where we can let our collective hair down. It can be messy sometimes. I only get grumpy on the subject if I can't figure out what the hell someone is trying to say.
Mostly our rantings are merely the written equivalent of applying noogies.
We just love ya, doncha know!
Peachy!
Amy
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Post #229,798
10/17/05 6:07:56 AM
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Yabut.. the scary part is -
in the larger milieu (if anything really does exist outside this continuum?) - the dysfunction in the basics of English is only increasing. And since any attorney can point out the havoc wreaked (another fine word used less.. then oft mispeeled or mis-spake) - by just one of those misplaced commas, well -
(Then too, it's been so long since I had to cite the Rulez, instinct is quicker and generally close-enough.) But ya can't do instinct later.. if'n ya never learned this stuff first. Many ~mid-20s never did, it seems by what I read elsewhere.
No es una problema for basic comprehension here, as you point out -- but I don't find CRC's reminders (while maybe shovelling shit against that tide of homogenized everything) to be other than a small effort to innoculate? against the daily language murder - much of it more and more like Ad-speak and TLA-nonspeak, elsewhere.
As we become post-literate via all those transistors and omnipresent icons, videos.
Suddenly it's Memphis (and not the one in TN); glyphs all around + bizspeak with \ufffds in lieu of any prior and difficult thought process.
As for the different styles here - yeah, nice simple declarative sentences from primers are fine for nice simple ideas and for sequential instruction manuals. And everyone could standardize on that as Style Sheet #1. I suppose. As to the others: none compels. If the content isn't worth it, it won't be missed.
(I can't comment upon the onerous requirement that some extra thought might be required for non-W3C Standard Style Sheets - might need to quote a line from Richard the III, in decidedly non-standard phrasing.)
Diffrunt strokes, er //s R'Us LLC
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Post #229,877
10/17/05 5:35:06 PM
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Ooops! CRC gets all medieval on yer ass!
jb4
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Post #229,520
10/13/05 9:57:34 PM
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D'oh. Fixed.
I almost daily curse my apostrophe key because it likes to bollix up my SQL, so I'm not really surprised I've been ignoring when I'm supposed to use it correctly.
Wade.
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Post #230,409
10/21/05 4:23:02 PM
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Microsoft XML Sample
<?xml version=1.0?>
<document application="mswd">
<data encoding="base64">
OIAJOMGOPJGOJOJODAJOWEEJ8WEURI
OJSEHILRHAKSHDLKHADSKLFHALKJHI
AAIEHDLKFHALKJDHKLFAHLDKFJHALK
JSDHFLKAJSHDKLJFHALKSDJHFLKADH
</data>
</document>
Fat lot of good XML is going to do MS's victims. They already do this shit in their preferences PLists on Mac OS X.
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Post #230,593
10/23/05 10:43:49 PM
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That's what the OpenDocument guys are complaining about.
"Insert crowbar. Apply force."
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Post #230,610
10/24/05 3:07:44 AM
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Re: Microsoft XML Sample
\n<?xml version="1.0"?>\n<w:wordDocument xmlns:w="[link|http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml|http://schemas.micro.../word/2003/wordml]">\n <w:body>\n <w:p>\n <w:r>\n <w:t>Hello, World.</w:t>\n </w:r>\n </w:p>\n </w:body>\n</w:wordDocument>\n --
Chris Altmann
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Post #230,623
10/24/05 9:58:20 AM
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That "link" doesn't work
There's no schema at http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml. In fact there's nothing at http://schemas.microsoft.com. At least nothing useful.
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Post #230,627
10/24/05 10:24:30 AM
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Well, duuuh.
Its only proposed. And by gummit, it'll be kept that way.
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Post #230,637
10/24/05 10:58:03 AM
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Point was ...
If it's supposed to be a reference to the proposal, it would be nice to see what they're actually proposing.
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Post #230,639
10/24/05 11:05:37 AM
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Sorry, that's proprietary.
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Post #230,685
10/24/05 3:59:33 PM
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ICLRPD: Sorry, that's proprietary. (new thread)
Created as new thread #230684 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=230684|ICLRPD: Sorry, that's proprietary.]
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Post #230,649
10/24/05 12:32:14 PM
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That is on a knead to know baseless.
All your dough are belonging to us. Anything else is pointless.
Or as Grygus said, that proprietary information. I am guessing you'll need to sign an NDA for that.
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Post #230,668
10/24/05 3:15:36 PM
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knead this
My example was actually of the existing WordML format for Word 2003. The docs can be downloaded here:
[link|http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FE118952-3547-420A-A412-00A2662442D9&displaylang=en|http://www.microsoft...D9&displaylang=en]
There are binary chunks in that format (it is a single xml format unline OO.org); things like graphics, VBA projects, OLE objects, and some other special Word features, but most of it is actual individual elements and attributes with actual primitive data types in text form.
Below is a preview of the schemas for the new default document formats for Office 12:
[link|http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=15805380-F2C0-4B80-9AD1-2CB0C300AEF9&displaylang=en|http://www.microsoft...F9&displaylang=en]
Note that these formats are much like the OO.org ones. They are a number of XML files bundled with graphics (in standard formats) and some binary chunks (like OLE embedded objects and VBA projects) compressed into a ZIP file.
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Post #230,787
10/25/05 9:33:11 AM
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I would love to download those references...
but, I need to verify I am using a WGA certified Operating System, plus it is in .msi format.
WTF, does this mean I am locked out? Effectively Yes.
Is this a good thing? No.
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Post #230,669
10/24/05 3:19:43 PM
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It's a URI. It doesn't have to.
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Post #230,788
10/25/05 10:04:03 AM
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But, how are
verification programs or format checking programs supposed to reference the the DTD describing the "format"? Lets make sure we understand, a URL is a URI. And why doesn't Microsoft have a schema similarly available for its XML format? Oh, here is the OASIS Stuff for ODT: - [link|http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12571/OpenDocument-schema-v1.0-os.rng|Open Documnet Schema]
- [link|http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12570/OpenDocument-manifest-schema-v1.0-os.rng|Open Document Manifest Schema]
- [link|http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12569/OpenDocument-strict-schema-v1.0-os.rng|Open Document Strict Schema]
- [link|http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12572/OpenDocument-v1.0-os.pdf|For those who want the PDF]
So, I guess, you now understand what I mean (I hope) And here is a good DTD for XML in any case: [link|http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.dtd|W3C's XML Schema DTD] and [link|http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes|W3C's XML Schema Datatypes] Which is a good place to start. -- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
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