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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, December 18 2012 @ 05:43 AM EST |
Thanks for posting that. I am giving 3 Pis to various kids for Christmas. This
is just in time to be installed. They may be slightly too young for OpenTTD, but
will get into it eventually, I expect.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 25 2012 @ 11:41 PM EST |
mail , not email. But I didn't go postal.That said, I wrote one of the three
inlbroperaete implementations for RFC-2440 (open PGP). It was opensourced, and
the source to the other two was published, and GPG is available in most Linux
distributions, and PGP Inc's stuff will talk to it.ISO is senile and needs to be
sent to their resting place. Their last shot at relevance has just expired.For
OOXML, there is a 6000+ page blob which no one has actually implemented,
assuming you can implement something full of ambiguities, lacunae, and
contradictions.For ODF, there are MULTIPLE opensource implementations, and a few
(IBM/Lotus) proprietary ones. It isn't perfect, but the entire point is that
having live source allows you to see HOW SOMEONE ELSE INTERPRETS it.Apparently
there are nightmarish things in the minutiae of spreadsheets for BOTH. So what
approach to build your app? OOXML Get every version of Excel you can and
write gazillions of test cases and hope it isn't fixed or changed in the next
version. ODF look at OO.o and Koffice and perhaps Gnumeric and see what they
did and are doing. If there are ambiguities, and Aaagh! they handle things
differently, submit bug reports and patches.In a short time and there is an
OASIS something going on to fix any problems in ODF but this is following not
leading ODF will be unified and functional and everything will just work .
OOXML will likely never actually correspond to any version of MSOffice, and will
fragment so that each version of OOXML will handle things just enough
differently to create problems.Having two implementations with source (at least
one open) that fully interoperate is better than any standard. Having three
(assuming they aren't all spaghetti code) all but negates the need for any
standard.ISO might stay around a while. So will phones with breaker dials
connected via copper. And NTSC televisions. The Vacuum tube can still be found
too. But all are really obsolete. Like an elder who you would be embarrassed
at except for their age, you are polite to them, but go ahead and do the new and
right thing.ISO has been shown to be too brittle to be a rubber stamp and have
shattered in the attempt.Sharing knowledge and building on others work is now
the way to accomplish great things. We can stand on the shoulders of giants
but get no higher than the giant permits. Instead we can stand on each others
shoulders and build to unimagined heights.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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