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Data representation
Well I would say there is a well-founded standard theoretical model for data representation.

On the basis of this standard watching Microsoft move from archaic methods where the only way you can get at the data is through the application to the almost as archaic hierarchical approach of XML feels a little bit like how an iron age tribe must have felt seeing some flint users getting excited about bronze.
Posted by: jorwell   Posted on: 05/22/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Data representation  jorwell | 05/22/07
History lesson  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
Ignorance of history  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
So name them...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
Make this interesting, John  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
Until you prove me wrong...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/23/07
In your own mind, maybe  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/23/07
In other minds as well  eb276 | 05/24/07
I didn't mean to get at MS in particular  jorwell | 05/22/07
Acronym confusion  jorwell | 05/23/07
Or some commentators says Uh-oh XML  sinleeh@... | 05/23/07
User Confusion  dragosani | 05/22/07
And the penalty of ONE format  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
Primary standards  dragosani | 05/22/07
I save to PDF  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
...is the Internet(?)  Robert Crocker | 05/22/07
TCP/IP...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
Not what I'd call competitors  Robert Crocker | 05/22/07
They use HTTP  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/23/07
Funny, that  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
Basic confusions  jorwell | 05/23/07
i'd rather live with odf's limitations  Voodoo187 | 05/23/07
Stopping point  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
UOF bridge  sinleeh@... | 05/22/07
Steve B's gonna have your hide for this one  Robert Crocker | 05/22/07
It wasn't...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
History Lesson, part 2  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
Wake up John and smell the coffee  bportlock | 05/23/07
Which is interesting...  ju1ce | 05/24/07
Just curious  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
Higher-level strategy  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
Like I said...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
Anthromorphism  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
More the "well documented" part  Robert Crocker | 05/22/07
Karma is a *****  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
Generalizing to absurdity  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/22/07
Backpedalling  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
Irishmen are a pale people  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/23/07
not a pain  Voodoo187 | 05/23/07
value for who?  deaf_e_kate | 05/23/07
Ebola vs. polio  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/22/07
The equivalent would be  jorwell | 05/23/07
Some 'standards' are more standard than others  Imaginos1892 | 05/22/07
1 format is good enough  Voodoo187 | 05/23/07
Of course this would imply  jorwell | 05/23/07
ironically  Voodoo187 | 05/23/07
But this is just a very limited set of the bank's data  jorwell | 05/23/07
yes  Voodoo187 | 05/23/07
Does that mean...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/23/07
they are silly  Voodoo187 | 05/23/07
interestingly many games use OGG format  stevey_d | 01/16/08
The issue is openness, rather than file formats  mmay | 05/23/07
chinese government  shryko | 05/23/07
Some things I can abide, others no.  heres_johnny | 05/24/07
Changed...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/26/07

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