Everyone in their right minds that happend to read that piece of garbage immediately notices it's just utterly ridiculous and starts to question the other "facts" too.
Quite a bit of study material comes as a powerpoint or word doc here too.
I've never had any trouble opening them with openoffice, true, there may be some slight formatting errors or other trivial graphics mishaps, but then again most of the time I'm trying to read the information in them, not goggle the prettyness of graphics (besides, they're usually frickin' ugly anyway, even in word or pp).
Now, the accursed html exported from powerpoint, which is used way too much as well is another story... there's just no way to get that sucker to open on anything else than IE.
Guess your brains indeed miss quite a few things printed in projected light.
The article sayeth:
The Electronic Paper Display is reflective and can be easily read in bright sunlight or dimly lit environments while being able to be seen at virtually any angle - just like paper. Its black and white ink-on-paper look.
There are lot of ways "not for any amount of money of earth I will not ever use this" does not make any sense, it's not even SUPPOSED to be an archival medium of any kind, it's supposed to be an easy way to drag lot of text with you and read it. Keep your paper books. Scan them. Put them on this. Complement. Not replace.
And in case you have NOT happened to notice, not all books are history books, nor ar they supposed to, fiction, manuals, documents that aren't long lived enough to warrant any political interest. Etc.
It's a GOOD idea for a whole shitload of material, just because there is one very small subset of books that might be more suspectible to manipulation if they are electronic (and even then only if they're stored in the 'net) doesn't make it a bad idea for all the 99.9% of the rest. Instead of insta knee-jerking, think, good man, think for a second.
Besides, while "they" are "revising" e-books stored on your non-rewritable cdroms, flash memory and hard drives, they're pretty much guaranteed to burn or steal your paper books along the way too.
As if Gnome project would just shut down and went home if Qt licence would change.
There are probably quite a some people out there who like the GTK not only because of licence. RedHat being one of companies most focused on that directions. Why, of course they should've made an U-turn and waste everything they've done on that front because YOU think Qt is better.
If you want to bitch about someone not buying off Trolltech, blame SuSE, or Mandrake, they're the Qt houses.
Sorry, but wake up, there will NEVER, EVER be just one toolkit that "everyone can agree with".
Remeber the openssl worm? Anything less than 0.9.6e is vulnerable. And they're using 0.9.5a????
In case you failed to read the 1) in parent:
Most, if not all distros backport security fixes. Version numbers tell you NOTHING about vulnerabilities.
Basically it means they take the patch and modify it to work with older version of software, which helps avoiding other bugs or changes that might be introduced with new versions.
You basically can't release an all-new version fast enough to respond to a security compromise because it's going to take a LOT of testing to make sure it doesn't break something else, and so backporting is almost always the preferred option. Unfortunately it also introduces mix-ups like yours.
SVG can never become as annoying as Flash infestation, even if used for same purposes.
Considering that any SVG support will probably be in browsers themselves, not plugins, SVG-menus and animations and the like could gracefully degrade, and would work seamlessly with rest of the UI instead of stealing the show.
Considering that it's the one of biggest gripes shitload of people had about Linux for a looooong time, "Better fonts" is a HUGE difference all by itself. It'd warrant GTK2 even if there was nothing else.
Projects like 'beep' are cool, but I think they're a bit overkill, I just want a dirt-simple winamp2 clone
Methings you're a bit confused here.
Beep basically IS the no-frills, no-overkill port of winamp2-style xmms1 to gtk2, it doesn't have a shitload of new features, and it has released a working player for quite a some time. They're almost at 1.0 point by now.
Well, it's not a drawing program in any meaning of the word so in that respect it's not a replacement for MS Paint, but for pasting & saving screenshot (which all this supposedly is about) it probably is better.
There's no absolute truth in this kind of thing, it depends on SOOOO many things.
Cramped case with very little space will almost certainly be cooler when it's open, but something with plenty of room and good airflow probably is better off closed.
Well, we've damn certainly have measurable effects on quite a few of other processes that have chugged along for billions of years.
I don't think anyone is arguing that we can somehow freeze the weather cycle so it doesn't ever change from current trend, the global warming proponents certainly DON'T claim we're the only one affecting weather - they claim we're accelerating it, maybe just a bit, maybe more, but change the speed of change nevertheless.
Total denial to even consider it is just as stupid as the other opposite, world is not black and white, there's quite a few things between extremes.
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Well, no offense but you're stupid. Especially as it probably comes without even trying and without explanation.
Using {} for block structure is the work of a mad-man. I'll never willingly use such a "programming" language.
There's really no difference between those equally idiotic statements. It's just about what you're used to.
Mass producing?
They seem to be very small company, more like "garage" than anything else. There is absolutely frickin' no way there is any mass-producing going on.
These guys are NOT Dell. They are not TiVo either.
Well, they don't have any other arguments left.
Have you tried colinux and CygwinX?
Of course everything that involves emulators is some kind of ugly hack, but if you've actually tried to use vmware for the purpose...
Or maybe they just know Acrobat 6 is piece of garbage worth contending even Microsoft software.
Now don't you young whippersnapper start with that technobabble, where is my Elvish version?
Well, that's just good.
Everyone in their right minds that happend to read that piece of garbage immediately notices it's just utterly ridiculous and starts to question the other "facts" too.
Quite a bit of study material comes as a powerpoint or word doc here too.
I've never had any trouble opening them with openoffice, true, there may be some slight formatting errors or other trivial graphics mishaps, but then again most of the time I'm trying to read the information in them, not goggle the prettyness of graphics (besides, they're usually frickin' ugly anyway, even in word or pp).
Now, the accursed html exported from powerpoint, which is used way too much as well is another story... there's just no way to get that sucker to open on anything else than IE.
It's male buyers that seem to be obsessed with buying the biggest model available.
You've never seen males buying cellphones, laptops or PDA's have you?
Guess your brains indeed miss quite a few things printed in projected light.
The article sayeth:
The Electronic Paper Display is reflective and can be easily read in bright sunlight or dimly lit environments while being able to be seen at virtually any angle - just like paper. Its black and white ink-on-paper look.
There are lot of ways "not for any amount of money of earth I will not ever use this" does not make any sense, it's not even SUPPOSED to be an archival medium of any kind, it's supposed to be an easy way to drag lot of text with you and read it. Keep your paper books. Scan them. Put them on this. Complement. Not replace.
And in case you have NOT happened to notice, not all books are history books, nor ar they supposed to, fiction, manuals, documents that aren't long lived enough to warrant any political interest. Etc.
It's a GOOD idea for a whole shitload of material, just because there is one very small subset of books that might be more suspectible to manipulation if they are electronic (and even then only if they're stored in the 'net) doesn't make it a bad idea for all the 99.9% of the rest. Instead of insta knee-jerking, think, good man, think for a second.
Besides, while "they" are "revising" e-books stored on your non-rewritable cdroms, flash memory and hard drives, they're pretty much guaranteed to burn or steal your paper books along the way too.
$400 ?!
Oh well. Guess it's another few years before one can actually get one of these things for a humane price.
$100 might be barely reasonable.
The screen is too small for a textbook. You can't even fit a decent diagram on a screen that size.
The screen is too small for some textbooks.
There's still plenty of material with no or just small images.
Actually, the new GTK 2.4 file-selector does use gnome-vfs.
As if Gnome project would just shut down and went home if Qt licence would change.
There are probably quite a some people out there who like the GTK not only because of licence. RedHat being one of companies most focused on that directions. Why, of course they should've made an U-turn and waste everything they've done on that front because YOU think Qt is better.
If you want to bitch about someone not buying off Trolltech, blame SuSE, or Mandrake, they're the Qt houses.
Sorry, but wake up, there will NEVER, EVER be just one toolkit that "everyone can agree with".
Shouldn't Yum be included in that list?
Remeber the openssl worm? Anything less than 0.9.6e is vulnerable. And they're using 0.9.5a????
In case you failed to read the 1) in parent:
Most, if not all distros backport security fixes. Version numbers tell you NOTHING about vulnerabilities.
Basically it means they take the patch and modify it to work with older version of software, which helps avoiding other bugs or changes that might be introduced with new versions.
You basically can't release an all-new version fast enough to respond to a security compromise because it's going to take a LOT of testing to make sure it doesn't break something else, and so backporting is almost always the preferred option. Unfortunately it also introduces mix-ups like yours.
Turned into a major kernel patch.
It had already been found and patched at that point.
Only nobody thought it was exploitable and thus anyone didn't update their servers and/or backport fix.
SVG can never become as annoying as Flash infestation, even if used for same purposes.
Considering that any SVG support will probably be in browsers themselves, not plugins, SVG-menus and animations and the like could gracefully degrade, and would work seamlessly with rest of the UI instead of stealing the show.
lcms is in Fedora Stable. No need to go for third party RPM's.
Yum doesn't seem to find it for some reason, though, weird.
Considering that it's the one of biggest gripes shitload of people had about Linux for a looooong time, "Better fonts" is a HUGE difference all by itself. It'd warrant GTK2 even if there was nothing else.
It's also quite a bit nicer to program with.
Projects like 'beep' are cool, but I think they're a bit overkill, I just want a dirt-simple winamp2 clone
Methings you're a bit confused here.
Beep basically IS the no-frills, no-overkill port of winamp2-style xmms1 to gtk2, it doesn't have a shitload of new features, and it has released a working player for quite a some time. They're almost at 1.0 point by now.
Well, it's not a drawing program in any meaning of the word so in that respect it's not a replacement for MS Paint, but for pasting & saving screenshot (which all this supposedly is about) it probably is better.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
There's no absolute truth in this kind of thing, it depends on SOOOO many things.
Cramped case with very little space will almost certainly be cooler when it's open, but something with plenty of room and good airflow probably is better off closed.
Well, we've damn certainly have measurable effects on quite a few of other processes that have chugged along for billions of years.
I don't think anyone is arguing that we can somehow freeze the weather cycle so it doesn't ever change from current trend, the global warming proponents certainly DON'T claim we're the only one affecting weather - they claim we're accelerating it, maybe just a bit, maybe more, but change the speed of change nevertheless.
Total denial to even consider it is just as stupid as the other opposite, world is not black and white, there's quite a few things between extremes.