Brace Yourselves! ACME 376 XML Is Here!
The ACME 376 Proposal for International Standardization
The following letter is to Rob Weir, who somehow managed to get his own personal XML language approved as a standard. We too would like our personal XML language and file format approved. But we don't have Rob's connections. We also don't pack the massive checkbook he carries! Still, our XML is just as worthy of international consideration. We also are providing the standards bodies members with an easy to download ACME 376 Compatibility Kit for versions of MSOffice 97-2007 so that they can test and use our personal XML language. We need help Rob!
Dear Rob,
We were very inspired by your "ECMA Weirish" effort. We too have ideas, thoughts and business needs so unique that we need our own XML language. So we invented ACME 376. We even have a ACME 376 Plugin for MSOffice so that coyote's everywhere can immediately improve their road runner catching productivity using our own XML language, "ACME 376". Now coyote's, plumbers and amateur bomb-makers everywhere can finally join the XML revolution, converting their billions of legacy binary documents to perfect, 100% high-fidelity ACME 376!
It's a great day for coyote's the world over. Woe to the hapless roadrunners who dissed us in the past.
So Rob, how did you get ECMA to rubber stamp "ECMA Weirish"? We need the same no-questions-asked rubber stamping for ACME 376. And from there we need to push it through ISO/IEC, but in a way so that the road runners of the world are caught unawares of our nefarious plot for their destruction.
Could you please review the following proposal and advise,
~ge~
Wanted: A Standards Body Willing To Rubber Stamp
Inspired by Rob Weir’s blog who intended to standardize “Weirish” as an international standard, we thought that if Rob has his own standard then we need one too.
So, we invented the “ACME 376” file format. It meets all the requirements of the ECMA TC 45, namely:
- * it is XML! Actually “.acme” files are ZIP files which contain pure XML.
- * it is compatible with Microsoft Office (2000, XP and 2003).
- * it can convert those billions of binary documents with perfect fidelity
- * it is great!
Make your Microsoft Word desktop productivity environment “ACME 376” ready today. You can download the installer here. This is not a joke! If you have problems, leave a comment here.
Standards bodies of the world! ACME 376 needs your consideration and approval! We need your vote for ISO/IEC approval now. We made sure not to use any other existing standard so a review for contradiction is not necessary.
Make ACME 376 an ISO standard today!
Download the installer for ACME 376 Compatibility Kit for Microsoft Office.
7 comments:
I'm trying this in Windows XP with Office 2003 - I can't get it to work; I save the file and it says "Cannot start converter converter-bridge"
Does this release work?
Hi Anony, nice to see you again.
The ACME 376 definately works. But your problem is interesting. I wonder if anybody else is having the same problem?
Your error message relates tp problems loading the needed converterbridge.dll contents.
The converterbridge.dll is only a wrapper which then loads all the
other DLLs. Looks like the converterbridge.dll can't find the
additional DLLs.
If you're willing, please try to copy the .DLLs from the "ACME" install directory (all
the core.dll, io.dll, sal3.dll, etc.) to e.g. the C:\WINDOWS directory
(only for testing :-)) --- or some dir where Windows definitely
searches for DLLs.
Please give feedback where this worked or not! We really appreciate your input on this since we can't seem to duplicate the problem. And thanks,
~ge~
Okay, there are a few others having odd problems with XP installations.
This seems to work; upgrade to the Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable (v2), shut off virusware, and re install.
Don't you mean ACNE 376?
I don't recall any such products in the ACME products I was gulled into testing for the ACME Corp., forerunners to the highly successful Microsoft Corp., and modelled on the highly successful Edsel.
Wiley E. Coyote, Esq.
OIHC (Often In Hospital Care)
I can't download the ACME 376 Kit. It get interrupted by the middle of the file. Any tips?
Hi Marcelo,
I just did a quick download without problem. Try this direct link. If that doesn't work, i can send it to you as an attachment. Good luck with your testing. The ODF version of this plugin, "daVinci", is currently awaiting release of the ODF 1.2 metadata RDF/XML RDFa proposal. Hopefully the OASIS ODF Metadata Sub Committee will finish work in March, and we can release daVinci versions for testing. I think you'll find the quality of conversion fidelity to be extraordinary. Especially when compared to the other ODF plugins now being tested:
* Microsoft-CleverAge-Novell Translator Plugin for MSOffice 2003
* Sun ODF Plugin for MSOffice 2003, XP Office
* Microsoft-CleverAge-Novell Translator Plugin for OpenOffice (release Feb 28th, 2007)
~ge~
who has started the last 12 games in the absence of Yi Jianlian. "I know I've improved a ton defensively this season."
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