Your HTML files look different if you are using a different browser or adjusting the size of the window. Slashdot.org looks quite different in Firefox at 1024x768 desktop and Lynx at 24x80 character tty. But as for PDF, what you see is what you'll get from a printer (almost). It looks the same across a wide range of applications and systems.
With HTML you can't embed your font into the file itself so your documents may turn to meaningless glyphs if someone gets the wrong font for his browser. This is less likely to happen for PDF.
If you have a lot of files to be kept and edited all the time then text (html, xml, LaTeX, or just plain text) formats are good (a lot easier to be grepped, diffed and managed with CVS / SVN). PDF isn't best for that.
The harvard webpage hosting the video says the video is 'For education purpose only' and prohibits any commercial use, redistribution or copying. So go ahead and show the inspiring animation for your students in the classroom it's OK:)
Are the creationists going to claim their plagiarism 'educational'? lol
Creationists stealing from scientists because they cannot intelligently design their own presentation?
It seems likely that making such a 3-d animation like the "inner life of a cell" requires some programming and design and practise. And most people who have actually done some serious programming or design know how to think and get work done. Creationists do not.
It would be far too complex to edit a Harvard video to add commentary,
Haha. More complex than editing your (posted)/. post?
BTW: You can watch the harvard video here: http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html
That was a superb animation. I watched it for the first time 3 months ago. Another version goes with no commentaries but only music and you can find it from Youtube.
1 Hire cheap Chinese students to make the Simplified Chinese localization. (Note that they don't have to bother about the maintainence of the translation. They never do it.)
2 Do self-censorship with their product in China. Flickr is already dead in China for political reasons.
3 Bribe Chinese government. Reduce tax.
4 Cheap local server machine. Get.
And they wins the 1.3 billion People running pirate copies of Windoze.
Thank you for the info but...
unfortunately we are not able to read Wikipedia now in China without the 'workarounds'. It has been blocked by the Firewall. Btw, we hear rumors that the Chinese government is running proxy servers outside China in order to find out who (or at least, how many people) are using proxy servers as a Firewall workaround.
As far as I know there hasn't been any lawsuit against the Firewall's operators. So, if I own a site and I lost 1 million Renminbi because of the Firewall's behavior, that's the Babylonian lottery..... ha.
many years ago Deng Xiaoping (the Chinese president then) said something like "(the govenment should let) a few people 'get richer first' " when he refers to the interpretation of socialism (the official one). I don't know how to translate that well in English but it is a very famous saying now in China.
Now President Hu Jintao is advocating his 'harmony society' ideas and we have the next saying: let a few people get more harmony first.
Illlllegal? As far as I know there's no law banning me from SSHing some remote host not explicitly blacklisted by the Chinese Gov't (i'm Chinese). And we don't even know who we are against. We don't know who operate and are responsible for the GFW. No*body*. The GFW is a more a cult, or humor, or both, than someting substantial for me, but it is _really_ there. The GFW works just like the Babylonian Lottery of Jorge L. Borges (at least for me). Errrr, am I offtoopic?
btw I've been under the shadow of the Great Firewall since China has internet. This is just normal case. Something is not being smart enough in the GFW API the Communist Party bought from you Americans. Perhaps somebody's LAN got trojaned and tried to slashdot a moderately sensitive (pardon me) site and the GFW got soooooo exited by the event....:-)
Yes, they slashdot it. According to the myth, the Chinese search engine, which reconciles to the communist gov't, namely baidu.com, employs men to repeatedly query Google's search engine with forbidden items, e.g. 'Falunkon', 'Taiwan Independence' or 'the Tian'anmen Masssacre' (I think the myth really means that they hire men power to run some scripts that do these queries at the same time.) Then the Great Firewall of China will catch this pulse of queries (it is supposed to catch everything in the Internet traffic in Mainland China) and automatically redirect the all traffics to/from Google to somewhere like the/dev/null (using some adaptive artificial-intelligent self-rewriting distributed-computing perl-lisp-python-erlang script?) Then common lusers will find that 'Google is down' and turn to baidu.com (which is, forgive my politeness, pure bullshit. Baidu censors itself. If you search 'Falunkon' with Baidu, it will preprocess your query string in the dark and only do things permitted by the Firewall. Perhaps the Great Firewall API is sold to them with some discount?)
That's how Baidu mysteriously exploits (or utilizes) the passive mode of the Great Firewall. The Firewall has yet another mode of working: the active mode. Recently Wikipedia is blocked for unknown reasons. Conjecture goes that it is to prevent undesirable results during the 17th congress of the Communist Party. Even at the time Wikipedia hasn't been blocked, one day when I searched it for some infomation about metallugy it showed up an empty face. Then I know why. The result page contains infomation on the corruption of metals, and 'corruption' is an forbidden item on Wikipedia (it seems that the 'forbidden dictionary' of the Firewall is site-specific) because of the word's political sense.
Now I'm off the topic. I mean, perhaps Google is shashdotted in Iran, just like how they slashdot it in China.:-P
I'm from Beijing. I understand the situation Mr. Lu Feng is faced with: a monopoly power M$, a considerably corrupted legal system, and the suspected alliance of the two.
In Chinese gov't (and persumably court) offices they run the M$ Windiz + Office. M$ is an 'official' choice. If Lu wins, an implication would be that M$ not only voilates out privacy & property rights, but also severely threatens the public security of the country. However the gov't are not fools, neither are M$ men. Gov't clearly knows what M$ is always doing to its costumers. Ergo, PRC Gov't --- M$ is not the same as you --- your software producer. That's why I suspect the two are in alliance with each other --- alliance based on the crime of betrayal and spying. The county is doomed. The PRC collapses and you Amiricans are happy...
However that's only some hot air. In reality the lawsuit probably would end in a reconcilation with M$ paying a sum of $ to Lu for his silence. That would be the easiest way for both the court and M$. Even if Lu wins, only a few could benefit from the case --- Lu himself and those private users of authenticated Windiz. The Mass use pirate copies, remember! In my university (Beijing Normal Univ.) there are about 2000 university-owned boxes running pirate Windiz and PowerPoint things, from the library to every classroom ( why do they think every classroom needs a computer??) --- mass violation of the law!!
Perhaps the media coverage of this case would encourage more Chinese switching to Linux / (GNU/Linux). Just a wish. Personally, I don't care about it. I'm using Fedora GNU/Linux, remaining quiet over the matter, and I'll be relatively safe. One thing interesting: you guys at/. are much more active on the topic than native Chinese men. You know M$ is just M$. But for many Chinese, M$ means either a large, shadowing power who can sue you against using pirate copies of its products at any time it wishes, or the only OS/office/othersillystuff solution. They don't even know Linux or/. exists.
Ergo, it does not qualify as one of the members bearing the Windows family name. I, the consumer, should have been able to experience the BSOD feature. However, it ended up with a non-user-friendly plain text error message!
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Your HTML files look different if you are using a different browser or adjusting the size of the window. Slashdot.org looks quite different in Firefox at 1024x768 desktop and Lynx at 24x80 character tty. But as for PDF, what you see is what you'll get from a printer (almost). It looks the same across a wide range of applications and systems.
With HTML you can't embed your font into the file itself so your documents may turn to meaningless glyphs if someone gets the wrong font for his browser. This is less likely to happen for PDF.
If you have a lot of files to be kept and edited all the time then text (html, xml, LaTeX, or just plain text) formats are good (a lot easier to be grepped, diffed and managed with CVS / SVN). PDF isn't best for that.
does it run under linux?
The harvard webpage hosting the video says the video is 'For education purpose only' and prohibits any commercial use, redistribution or copying. So go ahead and show the inspiring animation for your students in the classroom it's OK :)
Are the creationists going to claim their plagiarism 'educational'? lol
It seems likely that making such a 3-d animation like the "inner life of a cell" requires some programming and design and practise. And most people who have actually done some serious programming or design know how to think and get work done. Creationists do not.
Haha. More complex than editing your (posted)
BTW: You can watch the harvard video here: http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html
That was a superb animation. I watched it for the first time 3 months ago. Another version goes with no commentaries but only music and you can find it from Youtube.
Funny the web site carrying the survey forms seemed to be running MS Active $erver Page Framework
1 Hire cheap Chinese students to make the Simplified Chinese localization. (Note that they don't have to bother about the maintainence of the translation. They never do it.)
2 Do self-censorship with their product in China. Flickr is already dead in China for political reasons.
3 Bribe Chinese government. Reduce tax.
4 Cheap local server machine. Get.
And they wins the 1.3 billion People running pirate copies of Windoze.
May I politely interject here: motherfuckers for M$. Burn my karma please please please. Please do.
Thank you for the info but...
unfortunately we are not able to read Wikipedia now in China without the 'workarounds'. It has been blocked by the Firewall. Btw, we hear rumors that the Chinese government is running proxy servers outside China in order to find out who (or at least, how many people) are using proxy servers as a Firewall workaround.
As far as I know there hasn't been any lawsuit against the Firewall's operators. So, if I own a site and I lost 1 million Renminbi because of the Firewall's behavior, that's the Babylonian lottery..... ha.
many years ago Deng Xiaoping (the Chinese president then) said something like "(the govenment should let) a few people 'get richer first' " when he refers to the interpretation of socialism (the official one). I don't know how to translate that well in English but it is a very famous saying now in China.
Now President Hu Jintao is advocating his 'harmony society' ideas and we have the next saying: let a few people get more harmony first.
Illlllegal? As far as I know there's no law banning me from SSHing some remote host not explicitly blacklisted by the Chinese Gov't (i'm Chinese). And we don't even know who we are against. We don't know who operate and are responsible for the GFW. No*body*. The GFW is a more a cult, or humor, or both, than someting substantial for me, but it is _really_ there. The GFW works just like the Babylonian Lottery of Jorge L. Borges (at least for me). Errrr, am I offtoopic?
... not {politics for nerds}.
.... :-)
btw I've been under the shadow of the Great Firewall since China has internet. This is just normal case. Something is not being smart enough in the GFW API the Communist Party bought from you Americans. Perhaps somebody's LAN got trojaned and tried to slashdot a moderately sensitive (pardon me) site and the GFW got soooooo exited by the event
Nope. That's Lao-Tzu, not Confucius.
Hopefully this is just the first step.
You mean "hopefully"? First step to what? Yet another M$ suckingness?
Flash simply sucks. I mean ALL flash and flashing and falsh things anywhere.
Yes, they slashdot it. According to the myth, the Chinese search engine, which reconciles to the communist gov't, namely baidu.com, employs men to repeatedly query Google's search engine with forbidden items, e.g. 'Falunkon', 'Taiwan Independence' or 'the Tian'anmen Masssacre' (I think the myth really means that they hire men power to run some scripts that do these queries at the same time.) Then the Great Firewall of China will catch this pulse of queries (it is supposed to catch everything in the Internet traffic in Mainland China) and automatically redirect the all traffics to/from Google to somewhere like the /dev/null (using some adaptive artificial-intelligent self-rewriting distributed-computing perl-lisp-python-erlang script?) Then common lusers will find that 'Google is down' and turn to baidu.com (which is, forgive my politeness, pure bullshit. Baidu censors itself. If you search 'Falunkon' with Baidu, it will preprocess your query string in the dark and only do things permitted by the Firewall. Perhaps the Great Firewall API is sold to them with some discount?)
That's how Baidu mysteriously exploits (or utilizes) the passive mode of the Great Firewall. The Firewall has yet another mode of working: the active mode. Recently Wikipedia is blocked for unknown reasons. Conjecture goes that it is to prevent undesirable results during the 17th congress of the Communist Party. Even at the time Wikipedia hasn't been blocked, one day when I searched it for some infomation about metallugy it showed up an empty face. Then I know why. The result page contains infomation on the corruption of metals, and 'corruption' is an forbidden item on Wikipedia (it seems that the 'forbidden dictionary' of the Firewall is site-specific) because of the word's political sense.
Now I'm off the topic. I mean, perhaps Google is shashdotted in Iran, just like how they slashdot it in China. :-P
I'm from Beijing. I understand the situation Mr. Lu Feng is faced with: a monopoly power M$, a considerably corrupted legal system, and the suspected alliance of the two. In Chinese gov't (and persumably court) offices they run the M$ Windiz + Office. M$ is an 'official' choice. If Lu wins, an implication would be that M$ not only voilates out privacy & property rights, but also severely threatens the public security of the country. However the gov't are not fools, neither are M$ men. Gov't clearly knows what M$ is always doing to its costumers. Ergo, PRC Gov't --- M$ is not the same as you --- your software producer. That's why I suspect the two are in alliance with each other --- alliance based on the crime of betrayal and spying. The county is doomed. The PRC collapses and you Amiricans are happy... However that's only some hot air. In reality the lawsuit probably would end in a reconcilation with M$ paying a sum of $ to Lu for his silence. That would be the easiest way for both the court and M$. Even if Lu wins, only a few could benefit from the case --- Lu himself and those private users of authenticated Windiz. The Mass use pirate copies, remember! In my university (Beijing Normal Univ.) there are about 2000 university-owned boxes running pirate Windiz and PowerPoint things, from the library to every classroom ( why do they think every classroom needs a computer??) --- mass violation of the law!! Perhaps the media coverage of this case would encourage more Chinese switching to Linux / (GNU/Linux). Just a wish. Personally, I don't care about it. I'm using Fedora GNU/Linux, remaining quiet over the matter, and I'll be relatively safe. One thing interesting: you guys at /. are much more active on the topic than native Chinese men. You know M$ is just M$. But for many Chinese, M$ means either a large, shadowing power who can sue you against using pirate copies of its products at any time it wishes, or the only OS/office/othersillystuff solution. They don't even know Linux or /. exists.
I clicked the "Click here for system requirements" link on their index page and the pop-up showed a 500 internal error page.
Ergo, it does not qualify as one of the members bearing the Windows family name. I, the consumer, should have been able to experience the BSOD feature. However, it ended up with a non-user-friendly plain text error message!