Oh Please.
I'm by no means a professional (I do mainly web stuff and contributions to wikicommons) and for these humble needs GIMP just doesn't cut it. The 'guts' are no where near as advanced, image quality after manipulation with the GIMP is often degraded with my photos. The GUI must have been designed either by an idiot or a sadist (considering the name of the app, I would venture the latter), I mean... it doesn't even have resizable brushes, for fuck's sake!
Maybe your boss, wife, or grandmother are all using the Linux kernel, but the boss likes KDE, the wife likes gnome, and granny decides that fluxbox is right for her (yes, that last one is a joke).
IMO, having a distinction between OS and GUI is a Good Thing(tm), even to new users, because it allows you to choose what works best for you.
Case in point: I bought an old laptop for my g/f, who at the time knew nothing of linux, but I told her it would be better because she would get less viruses and would run on the hardware better than XP. I had her try XFCE, but she didn't like it. Tried KDE but it was too slow. Finally we tried Gnome, and she stuck with that, and never asked me to put XP on it.
Or, at work: My boss uses mandriva with KDE on his box, I prefer Gnome on ubuntu. We're still using the same OS, are we not?
Don't be so elitist to think everyone is dumber than you and can't understand something as simple as "You can change how your computer looks and feels without losing all your data and applications".
Most rarely use more than 5% of the one they already have. Huh? I've seen brand new out of the box dual-core Vista machines using 10-15% of CPU at idle. XP is (much) better, but once you start adding all sorts of crap on there, and there are like 40 processes running at idle, CPU usage certainly goes past 5% at idle... and then they open AOL.
For some config files, XML is the easiest way to go. I wrote an app that stores the entire hierarchy of the GUI's frames, panels, and values as nested nodes of XML. The app then looks at those XML nodes and recreates itself accordingly when loading the config. Using python's xml.dom.minidom makes it easier to work with.
I agree that in most cases it is overkill, if you know exactly which values need to go where, python's config parser is much easier and the resulting files are smaller.
Regarding CSV files and the like, again they are sufficient when dealing with 2D data, but once you get into hierarchal structures it becomes much more effort on the part of the program's logic and processing. Also the legibility of the files are better, if indented correctly with something like toprettyxml of course. At that point though it's even easier to go with SQL, unless high portability and/or transfer is required.
As more often than not it's the application that is good or bad, not the tool. XML can be a great tool, if chosen and used correctly.
Using this and your reasoning, cost per passenger is ~ $127. It would be interesting to look at the price site and ticket prices over time, and see how they correlate. I know the airlines are always bitching about how tickets are going up because of gas prices, but how much of it is true?
Agree. For an in-house project tracking system we decided to go with MySQL, not because it is better, as we found Postgres superior, but because of lack of support from various software components.
Obama is not black - his mother is white (American of European decent) and his father is a black African (Kenya); he is multiracial. He looks more black than white though.
And 'african-american' is a meaningless fucking term that needs to be abolished yesterday. I went to high school with an "african-american" - she was tall, pale, blue eyes/blond hair (south africa)... and the vast majority of Africans north of the Sahara are not black.
Black/white, while incorrect from a scientific point of view (races have long been shown to not have any validity), at least gives you an idea of the person looks like.
This is silly, not doing reprocessing has not done anything to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. This process has been used for a long time in France, Britain, and other countries, and there has never been any material reported missing. In the case of Iran for example, it was the North Koreans that gave them access to materials and tech. Some missing material from the break up of the Soviet Union, well who knows what was going on there at the time.
The reason for the US not doing this is quite simple: there has been no new nuclear power plants built, very little if any money into research, and a general lack of interest in regards to nuclear energy aside from military use. Progress has stagnated; the amount of money required to bring everything up do date and allow reprocessing to be possible is more than what congress is willing to spend.
However, recent reports suggest there may be a renewed interest in this area. The main advantage being that the spent fuel is much less dangerous several orders of magnitude faster.
We are very, very reliant on OSS, so much so that the company would fold without them. All our servers are linux if possible (some apps require a MS server, i.e. quickbooks), we use python scripts (on windows WS) for many daily tasks, many of our GUI apps are wxPython, our project mangement/tracking system is a custom-made PHP/MySQL/Apache deal, most of our workstations use OO.o rather than MS Office (the execs have it though), the company website is on apache/PHP, our email system is Scalix on centOS. The only major part of our infrastructure which is propriatary is quickbooks, leadtools/delphi, OCR (abbyy) and some pretty specific scanning software -- simply because no equivalent _good_ OSS exists. Since leadtools/scanning software will only work on windows, all our workstations are XP, except mine which is Ubuntu.
While having someone like me who is very much into open source and pitch it whenever I can helps no doubt, the execs also understand that it lowers costs, gives better flexability and removes reliance on 3rd parties. We would probably be all open source if not for apps described above.
notepad, wordpad - are you for real? Quite possibly the worst simple text editors. I suggest you try notepad++ (open source, windows only)
Calc - After using the calculator included with gnome, I have a deep hatred for this POS. No copy/paste, no way to see waht operations were entered, less functionality.
remote desktop - Not bad, though a little slow, even on Gb ethernet. I still like SSH better.
control panel - I actually like this one, I find it easier to use than the KDE 3.x clusterfuck of options (maybe 4 will fix this?), more organized than the gnome setup. Ubuntu tried doing something like it in early 7.10 beta (or alpha?) but decided to drop it. Shame.
I know what you're trying to say, that IBM is no longer the 800lbs gorilla it used to be, which is true. But the bit about PowerPC is inaccurate, it is certainly mainstream - the xbox 360 and wii use it, and the cell processor is related to it (uses power architecture). It is also used in many applications in the embedded market.
Regarding the term DRM, it does not really apply to this in the sense of embedding permissions within a file, and only allowing 'approved' devices for opening (i.e. music DRM like aacs/wma). It is an access permissions system using PHP/MySQL, similar to many others in use on the web or internally. However I felt the application was novel and interesting enough to warrant discussion, and as BBC used the term DRM kept I it as well (also this is/., you need to be a little polemical to get posted).
Environment
MySQL server and PHP scripting language on a Web server (Apache, e.g.)
Platform
All supported (XP, OS X, etc). Note, CD Burning from the browser requires OS X and certain file permissions.
Examples
The archive runs locally on an iMac in a MAMP package (Mac OSX, Apache, MySQL, PHP), or on a Windows PC running XAMPP.
The package will also run in core Web server environments.
Didn't you get the memo? The police, like most other government agencies, have been on sale to the highest bidder for quite some time now. This is especially true for local departments, but the feds are not immune from it.
Note that when the legislators are bought also (as appears to be the case here) it makes the process much, much easier for the buyer.
"Quirks mode" remains the same, and compatible with current content.
"Standards mode" remains the same as IE7, and compatible with current content.
If you (the page developer) really want the best standards support IE8 can give, you can get it by inserting a simple element. Aaron gives more details on this in his article.
IOW, the browser defaults to 'quirks mode' if there is no DOCTYPE, M$ half-assed 'standards mode' if there is a DOCTYPE, and.... wait for it.... The developer needs to specifically add the meta tag to use 'true' standards mode.
So there you go -- good standard compliant pages will need to add a non-standard meta header to render properly (complete bullshit).
Thankfully for me, the pages I make are intranet use only, and I mandated any browser other than IE company-wide. But I feel a great deal of sorrow for those that do not have this luxury:-(.
Actually a scientist will say that a scientific theory and fact are not mutualy exclusive. A theory is, simply put, a testable model that makes predictions. That model can be a fact or not, depending on the evidence. It does not have the ordinary usage meaning of 'something which I'm not sure of'.
Now this does not mean a better theory won't ever be 'found', like when Einstein and his general theory of relativity showed Newton was (partly) wrong with his theory of universal gravitation.
But for now, the theory of evolution by the process of natural selection *IS* fact. Proven and tested by countless evidence over more than 100 years.
Don't give them the whole translation until they pay. This has nothing to do with DRM, just business tactics. I'm in document scanning, if the clients do not pay, we hold their film until they do.
From what this page says, these will be turned to color images later. They take the same picture at 10 different wavelengths then combine them to make a color image.
I hope you are a veggan, otherwise you animal rights accusations are completely hypocritical.
As for the rich getting better medical care than the poor, this has always been the case, always will be. However, in many countries, the poorer get a minimum amount of health care, and if significant advances are made using stem cells, those people would benefit as well.
Well, they have a history of not using more open and standard technologies and would much rather use a home grown technology (see: J++, IE HTML, etc). It doesn't really surprise me, although I certainly agree that it would do users a lot of good. We use python quite a bit at the shop, and integration with MS Office is very useful. Fortunately, there are some tools for this using win32com, but it would be better to have it built in like OOo has it.
Overture is stumping up to $100m cash for the Internet business of Fast Search & Transfer (FAST)... it gets FAST WebSearch, AlltheWeb.com, and FAST PartnerSite.
FAST says it will now focus on its enterprise search business, which currently accounts for 75 per cent of turnover. From your source, they only sold off a portion of their business (the internet stuff), and kept doing the enterprise stuff. M$ now wants to buy their enterprise stuff. Nothing unusual here.
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Oh Please. ... it doesn't even have resizable brushes, for fuck's sake!
I'm by no means a professional (I do mainly web stuff and contributions to wikicommons) and for these humble needs GIMP just doesn't cut it. The 'guts' are no where near as advanced, image quality after manipulation with the GIMP is often degraded with my photos. The GUI must have been designed either by an idiot or a sadist (considering the name of the app, I would venture the latter), I mean
Maybe your boss, wife, or grandmother are all using the Linux kernel, but the boss likes KDE, the wife likes gnome, and granny decides that fluxbox is right for her (yes, that last one is a joke).
IMO, having a distinction between OS and GUI is a Good Thing(tm), even to new users, because it allows you to choose what works best for you.
Case in point: I bought an old laptop for my g/f, who at the time knew nothing of linux, but I told her it would be better because she would get less viruses and would run on the hardware better than XP. I had her try XFCE, but she didn't like it. Tried KDE but it was too slow. Finally we tried Gnome, and she stuck with that, and never asked me to put XP on it.
Or, at work: My boss uses mandriva with KDE on his box, I prefer Gnome on ubuntu. We're still using the same OS, are we not?
Don't be so elitist to think everyone is dumber than you and can't understand something as simple as "You can change how your computer looks and feels without losing all your data and applications".
HTF (how the fuck) is this a troll? Judging from this I would take the parent's claim with a grain of salt, however this does not equal troll.
For some config files, XML is the easiest way to go. I wrote an app that stores the entire hierarchy of the GUI's frames, panels, and values as nested nodes of XML. The app then looks at those XML nodes and recreates itself accordingly when loading the config. Using python's xml.dom.minidom makes it easier to work with.
I agree that in most cases it is overkill, if you know exactly which values need to go where, python's config parser is much easier and the resulting files are smaller.
Regarding CSV files and the like, again they are sufficient when dealing with 2D data, but once you get into hierarchal structures it becomes much more effort on the part of the program's logic and processing. Also the legibility of the files are better, if indented correctly with something like toprettyxml of course. At that point though it's even easier to go with SQL, unless high portability and/or transfer is required.
As more often than not it's the application that is good or bad, not the tool. XML can be a great tool, if chosen and used correctly.Using this and your reasoning, cost per passenger is ~ $127. It would be interesting to look at the price site and ticket prices over time, and see how they correlate. I know the airlines are always bitching about how tickets are going up because of gas prices, but how much of it is true?
Agree. For an in-house project tracking system we decided to go with MySQL, not because it is better, as we found Postgres superior, but because of lack of support from various software components.
Obama is not black - his mother is white (American of European decent) and his father is a black African (Kenya); he is multiracial. He looks more black than white though.
... and the vast majority of Africans north of the Sahara are not black.
And 'african-american' is a meaningless fucking term that needs to be abolished yesterday. I went to high school with an "african-american" - she was tall, pale, blue eyes/blond hair (south africa)
Black/white, while incorrect from a scientific point of view (races have long been shown to not have any validity), at least gives you an idea of the person looks like.
This is silly, not doing reprocessing has not done anything to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. This process has been used for a long time in France, Britain, and other countries, and there has never been any material reported missing. In the case of Iran for example, it was the North Koreans that gave them access to materials and tech. Some missing material from the break up of the Soviet Union, well who knows what was going on there at the time.
The reason for the US not doing this is quite simple: there has been no new nuclear power plants built, very little if any money into research, and a general lack of interest in regards to nuclear energy aside from military use. Progress has stagnated; the amount of money required to bring everything up do date and allow reprocessing to be possible is more than what congress is willing to spend.
However, recent reports suggest there may be a renewed interest in this area. The main advantage being that the spent fuel is much less dangerous several orders of magnitude faster.
We are very, very reliant on OSS, so much so that the company would fold without them. All our servers are linux if possible (some apps require a MS server, i.e. quickbooks), we use python scripts (on windows WS) for many daily tasks, many of our GUI apps are wxPython, our project mangement/tracking system is a custom-made PHP/MySQL/Apache deal, most of our workstations use OO.o rather than MS Office (the execs have it though), the company website is on apache/PHP, our email system is Scalix on centOS. The only major part of our infrastructure which is propriatary is quickbooks, leadtools/delphi, OCR (abbyy) and some pretty specific scanning software -- simply because no equivalent _good_ OSS exists. Since leadtools/scanning software will only work on windows, all our workstations are XP, except mine which is Ubuntu.
While having someone like me who is very much into open source and pitch it whenever I can helps no doubt, the execs also understand that it lowers costs, gives better flexability and removes reliance on 3rd parties. We would probably be all open source if not for apps described above.
I know what you're trying to say, that IBM is no longer the 800lbs gorilla it used to be, which is true. But the bit about PowerPC is inaccurate, it is certainly mainstream - the xbox 360 and wii use it, and the cell processor is related to it (uses power architecture). It is also used in many applications in the embedded market.
Regarding the term DRM, it does not really apply to this in the sense of embedding permissions within a file, and only allowing 'approved' devices for opening (i.e. music DRM like aacs/wma). It is an access permissions system using PHP/MySQL, similar to many others in use on the web or internally. However I felt the application was novel and interesting enough to warrant discussion, and as BBC used the term DRM kept I it as well (also this is
info from here: Technical Specifications
Environment
MySQL server and PHP scripting language on a Web server (Apache, e.g.)
Platform
All supported (XP, OS X, etc). Note, CD Burning from the browser requires OS X and certain file permissions.
Examples
The archive runs locally on an iMac in a MAMP package (Mac OSX, Apache, MySQL, PHP), or on a Windows PC running XAMPP.
The package will also run in core Web server environments.
Didn't you get the memo? The police, like most other government agencies, have been on sale to the highest bidder for quite some time now. This is especially true for local departments, but the feds are not immune from it.
Note that when the legislators are bought also (as appears to be the case here) it makes the process much, much easier for the buyer.
- "Quirks mode" remains the same, and compatible with current content.
- "Standards mode" remains the same as IE7, and compatible with current content.
- If you (the page developer) really want the best standards support IE8 can give, you can get it by inserting a simple element. Aaron gives more details on this in his article.
IOW, the browser defaults to 'quirks mode' if there is no DOCTYPE, M$ half-assed 'standards mode' if there is a DOCTYPE, andSo there you go -- good standard compliant pages will need to add a non-standard meta header to render properly (complete bullshit).
Thankfully for me, the pages I make are intranet use only, and I mandated any browser other than IE company-wide. But I feel a great deal of sorrow for those that do not have this luxury
Actually a scientist will say that a scientific theory and fact are not mutualy exclusive. A theory is, simply put, a testable model that makes predictions. That model can be a fact or not, depending on the evidence. It does not have the ordinary usage meaning of 'something which I'm not sure of'.
Now this does not mean a better theory won't ever be 'found', like when Einstein and his general theory of relativity showed Newton was (partly) wrong with his theory of universal gravitation.
But for now, the theory of evolution by the process of natural selection *IS* fact. Proven and tested by countless evidence over more than 100 years.
I've had that problem with Scalix and iceweasel. See here for the fix.
Don't give them the whole translation until they pay. This has nothing to do with DRM, just business tactics. I'm in document scanning, if the clients do not pay, we hold their film until they do.
From what this page says, these will be turned to color images later. They take the same picture at 10 different wavelengths then combine them to make a color image.
No silly, you use chopsticks!
If you notice the bag of tea is exactly like that - a pouch with a straw.
I hope you are a veggan, otherwise you animal rights accusations are completely hypocritical.
As for the rich getting better medical care than the poor, this has always been the case, always will be. However, in many countries, the poorer get a minimum amount of health care, and if significant advances are made using stem cells, those people would benefit as well.
4000 pages on the site, no way. However a PDF for download would be interesting, but it would have to be a torrent, of course ;-)
Well, they have a history of not using more open and standard technologies and would much rather use a home grown technology (see: J++, IE HTML, etc). It doesn't really surprise me, although I certainly agree that it would do users a lot of good. We use python quite a bit at the shop, and integration with MS Office is very useful. Fortunately, there are some tools for this using win32com, but it would be better to have it built in like OOo has it.
Python Power baby !!
FAST says it will now focus on its enterprise search business, which currently accounts for 75 per cent of turnover. From your source, they only sold off a portion of their business (the internet stuff), and kept doing the enterprise stuff. M$ now wants to buy their enterprise stuff. Nothing unusual here.