Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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"Counting the countries, it is pretty certain that the votes are enough to get OOXML through this vote." said Pieter Hintjens on the Noooxml-mailing list. A press release for tomorrow has been prepared:
Geneva, 1 April 2008. The International Organization for
Standardization announced at a press conference that its processes are
"broken" and ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Germany is voting "YES" on DIS 29500 at ISO. The relevant committee was given by DIN only the choice between "YES" and "ABSTAIN" on DIS 29500, since changing from "YES with comments" in September 2007 to "NO" in March 2008 was deemed impossible. Everyone could vote "yes", "abstain" or "no" ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The average American uses 11400 Watts of power continuously. This is the equivalent of burning 114 x100 Watt light bulbs, all the time. The average person globally uses 2255 Watts of power, or a little less than 23 x100 Watt light bulbs.
These sentences are taken out of the introduction from ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
...and neither guitone nor monotone will be a part of it.
Google just put the list of mentoring organizations online and our direct competitors, namely git and Mercurial, of course got slots. On #gsoc on Freenode a Google employee told the crowd about a total of 505 applications this year, where ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
No comment:
http://developer.telekom.de/
Editor's note: This is an insider joke which you probably only get when you come from Germany. In short: The Deutsche Telekom is the former TelCo monopolist and still one of the major players on the market, and I'd probably have thought of Deutsche Telekom to be the very ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
People who regularily visit Digg.com probably already know it: Nine Inch Nails - one of my favourite bands - just released their new full-length album "Ghosts I-IV" with 36 tracks under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license! You can download the album from their official site in various ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
98.4% of the OOXML Proposed Dispositions were approved by a three to two majority at the BRM, validating OOXML
The OOXML Proposed Dispositions OOXML were overwhelmingly rejected by the delegations in attendance at the BRM, indicating the inability of OOXML to be adequately addressed within the "Fast Track" process
(Source: ConsortiumInfo.org)
So, depending ...
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