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Submission + - An insight analysis of MS Office formats (joelonsoftware.com)

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stm2

on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @12:29PM

stm2 writes: "Joel on Software has published Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds) where he analyzes the just launched Microsoft Office binary file format. At first glance, "a normal programmer would conclude that Office's binary file formats:

are deliberately obfuscated

are the product of a demented Borg mind

were created by insanely bad programmers

and are impossible to read or create correctly.

" But the article goes on debunking this concepts and gives us (programmers who has to deal with these filles) some workarounds."

Submission + - When did Star Wars jump the shark? (com.com) 1

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stm2

on Friday November 23, 2007 @08:20AM

stm2 writes: "As a long time /. reader, I saw how Star Wars was considered first as the "best SCIFI story ever" to the "Lucas stole my childhood" rant. This article in the Techreuplic blog goes into the subject and states that the Midi-chlorians are the culprit. It was the Midi-chlorians, Jar Jar Binks, the actors?. When did Star Wars jump the shark?. A bonus question: Did George Lucas redeem himself in Episode III (RotS)?"

Submission + - Music from DNA patented (genome-technology.com)

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stm2

on Monday July 30, 2007 @03:48PM

stm2 writes: "Two lawers patented the idea of generating music from a DNA sequence. According to the patent, it covers "music generated by decoding and transcribing genetic information within a DNA sequence into a music signal having melody and harmony". I remember seeing such a algorithms since earlier 90's. Is this another well known idea that gets patented?"

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