My lazy half is starting to doubt not crash-coursing my way through advanced quantum physics. It seems a lot easier than trying to adapt to programming according to recent news.
“Want to read every single technical detail of the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider and its six detectors? The whole shebang — seven reports totaling 1600 pages, 115 MB, with contributions from 8000 scientists and engineers — has been published electronically by the Journal of Instrumentation, free to read without a subscription.”
//slashdot quoting symmetrymagazine.org
Compare this to the OOXML specification which is 6000 pages.
The national bodies voting at ISO this year will not pass this fraud. No matter how many people Microsoft infiltrate onto the voting bodies, no responsible person will pass what they either cannot read or — making the Herculean effort to read 6,000 pages without pay — what they cannot possibly understand.
//random blog with a picture and criticism of the OOXML specs
So remember, kids. If you’re gonna write a word processing software when you grow up – forget it. Start studying physics instead. With luck, we might design a black hole which attracts only the Intellectual Property morons in a near future.
Tags: Åt helvete med hela skiten, Development, OOXML, physics, programming, Standards, Technology
