what with tex, troff, postscript and open standards one would've thought that cobbling some dtp/vector stuff together would've been pretty straightforward.
Hand editing troff isn't ideal for being totally creative.
For christmas I've been back to Corel to make the tshirts and crhistmas cards, trivial but I got a hankering for dtp again so this question comes at a good time for me.
Shame the GUI based answer seems to be Kontour or nothing. Text based DTP is good for techies but hard to convince my kids to learn troff macros to make a birthday card for Jesus!
the idea of unknowable fact is a holdover from 19th century mysticism. humanity traditionally reacts to the difficulty of comprehension by labeling something unknowable, obscure, occult. this kind of mysticism is the greatest obstacle to true comprehension of the universe.
nope
you are talking like a unified theorist
To say that human endeavor will bring all the answers given enough time, I believe, is fallacious.
I believe we are trapped by our dimensionality.
We can only look down from our perspective and draw conclusions based in our observation.
Our 3d space & time world is our limitation.
It's simple high school stuff. Imagine we are 2d then we can only truly see 2d things. We can see the shadows of 3d objects and draw conclusions as to their cause but we can never truly know.
We're a programming shop, 80% of which is web browser based client/server apps (you know, stuff like/.)
We have nine full time employees. (5 programmers, 1 gfx designer, 2 managers, 1 sales). We have no premises and don't all live in the same city. Our whole business runs from the back bedrooms of each of us.
IRC is our favoured medium of communication and most hours of the day / night there is at least one of us in the channel
The sales/management team go on site to clients for meetings which clients like because it saves them travel time time too.
If that's not possible we just hire a room at a nice posh hotel which always goes down well.
Once a month we all get together and have a face to face meeting around a nice, company paid for lunch.
It's definately my favourite ever job and would not be possible without a good solid 24/7 connection. The minimum anyone "here" has is 128k ISDN but as the [A]DSL rollout continues we are gradually moving over (I'm on DSL).
Before we started the company we all worked together in the same office and I know that that has been a factor in our success. And successful we are. Our overheads for the year (April-April) we covered by the end of August! We're all looking forward to the profit share scheme come May I can tell you.
Our lives have dramatically improved. We are more involved in our family lives now we have the freedom to do so. Gone is the pressure to be at work by 9am every day. Those of us that have children get to see them more, doing the school run and participating in after school care. This has enabled my partner to go to work two days a week while having little impact on my work time.
No more trying to cram stuff in to the lunch hour.
No more having to use the computers / programs they give you, no BOFHs to contend with, no 4'x4' cube to go mad in, music as loud as you like, no more having to have clean clothes, a shave and a clean self!
I'm sure it's not for everyone. My friends think that they wouldn't have the discipline to keep working but I enjoy my work (usually) so that's not so much of a problem. And if I'm doing something tedious then my environment makes up for it. I can go water my plants or watch my tropical fish or pop out to the shops for a bit.
Actually I find it hard sometimes to stop working (which is why we introduced the profit share scheme so we wouldn't feel hard done by at 1am!)
It wouldn't be quite as feasable without broadband.
maybe you don't get it but ASP means active server pages, PHP is just one of many languages one can use in Active Server Pages, another is VB Script, but perl, python, ruby, rebol are also included.
ASP is simply the name Microsoft chooses to confuse the world with. The rest of the computing planet uses CGI as the acronym. By using ASP it FUDs people because then people think that Unix doesn't have ASP.
So you see PHP isn't a competitor it's an ally. What MS want is NT/2k/XP deployment not vb script.
Once deployed it's hard to change, even if you did think that p*'s cross platform nature was going to help you. Once your scripts become complex enough then 'MS only' stuff leeches in (pathnames for instance) and moving over becomes too much hassle and for what gain?
And I tried all the programs I could get on warez to find the best one.
CoolEdit has scratch and pop removal and works very well but even with that I ended up hand editing the waveforms for ultimate scratch removeal (including cutting and pasting clean bars from other segments of the same music).
tbh a bit of crackle and rumble does you no harm, it feels like listening to vinyl.
If recorded over 100 lps to mp3 from my collection.
It's a very long process to do well.
I encoded them at 256k (and then did a subtraction of the resulting wave forms to see what I was losing and it's not much)
It is much quicker to get them from gnutella (if you can find them) or on CD but usually they are only 128k and it's hard to get complete sets for each album. Most of my music isn't out there to download.
I'd be charging your uncle for the privilege because having an mp3 jukebox of all his recordings is a luxury he will be very glad of.
I have wired up my whole house with speakers in every room running from various amps and PC's all getting their mp3's over the network. It's fucking great!
my biggest win was a pair of 4" speakers from Maplin mounted in the bathroom ceiling. My 12 year old needs encouragement to get OUT of the shower instead on IN to it now he can blast his music out in there without having to piss about running cables and choosing cds
when i went across the outback in 1986 I saw wild camels and horses.
roos are spread all over but less so in the bush than the burbs. I saw more of them in the urbanisations than the outback (but hey, maybe they are just easier to spot near the coast!).
maybe the lions will become so numerous that i will be able to fulfill my eq dream and have real lion steaks. (bah, i'm vegetarian, oh well).
i hardly think the rabbit explosion is a good example . i can't see the place becoming flooded with large mammals, predators OR prey!
As for preserving the ecosystem, it's not like there's much there to lose, unless you really like sand.
Kerry is obviously trying to make a fast buck but seeing as he likes spactacular failure things don't bode well.
While I'm on about spectacle we decided yesterday that should the US actually capture Bin Laden they would have a PUBLIC execution, probably on Pay Per View.
If I was him, though, I would just shave my beard and hair off and calmly walk away. No-one will ever know it's him.
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luckily it's not up to them
some of us are not movie pirates but movie makers!!
it's weird we've had no good stuff in this dept.
what with tex, troff, postscript and open standards one would've thought that cobbling some dtp/vector stuff together would've been pretty straightforward.
Hand editing troff isn't ideal for being totally creative.
For christmas I've been back to Corel to make the tshirts and crhistmas cards, trivial but I got a hankering for dtp again so this question comes at a good time for me.
Shame the GUI based answer seems to be Kontour or nothing. Text based DTP is good for techies but hard to convince my kids to learn troff macros to make a birthday card for Jesus!
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7.81% 7.81% xmms
same mp3
1.62% 0.73% mpg123
p3 500
freebsd 4.4
I still want multitple outs
multiple stereo outs would be good
so i can play 2 diff mp3 streams to 2 diff amps in two diff room simultaneously (i used 2 pcs atm.)
mp3 decoing on the card rather than 10% of my cpu would be cool
etc.
bah, i thought this stupid book was the latest John Grisham novel but it's a flipping cook-book
for MS products "cross-platform" usually means 95, 98, me, nt, 2k & xp
the idea of unknowable fact is a holdover from 19th century mysticism. humanity traditionally reacts to the difficulty of comprehension by labeling something unknowable, obscure, occult. this kind of mysticism is the greatest obstacle to true comprehension of the universe.
nope
you are talking like a unified theorist
To say that human endeavor will bring all the answers given enough time, I believe, is fallacious.
I believe we are trapped by our dimensionality.
We can only look down from our perspective and draw conclusions based in our observation.
Our 3d space & time world is our limitation.
It's simple high school stuff. Imagine we are 2d then we can only truly see 2d things. We can see the shadows of 3d objects and draw conclusions as to their cause but we can never truly know.
.
You can't prove that the universe is infinite in size either but you hold that to be true.
All you can demonstrate is a series of hypotheses that don't break down under anthropomorphic mathematical analysis.
That the universe is infinte is illogical
That the universe is finite is illogical
That the universe is made up of particles with a finitely small size is illogical
That the universe is made up of particles with a infinitely small size is illogical
My ultimate position is that the composition of the universe is unknowable.
Knowledge is infinite.
Our collective capacity for discovery is finite.
.
bah
filtered
x {0 < x < 1}
is also infinite
i didn't say it was right
i'm saying that it's not surprising
the set
x {0 x 1} is also infinite
crime is crime
the police try and arrest people who commit crime
it's hardly surprising that after 10 years of 0 day warez someone is going to knock on the door with a badge and a gun
they should've stuck to fido, BBS and CD's in the mail
maybe now ppl will use a vpn or something sensible
trading in irc is like selling drugs on the street corner, do it long enough in the same spot and your gonna feel some heat.
too bad for the fall guys
guess we should call /. Regular Gonzales then
!ÿ£7
.16
what the frell?
s/!ÿ£7/can /
i wish i knew how to type £ my kb is a 105-uk and i've not sussed how to change it from US in enlightenment
and you'll find that there is no middle
If the universe is infinitly large does the converse not hold that it is also infinitely small?
the dimensionality that our perspective imposes is surely just an illusion
!ÿ£7you tell I've run out of weed?
the old version worked
i tried the new one last week with freebsd 4.4 iso's and it failed though
here's one :
download an ISO
and you want to install via FTP and the only box you have available is nt
been there, done that
:)
try me, if you can work out my email address
it DOES have the word spam in it
as usual the two weak ones vote off the stronger
:)
I can't quote any figures but most software development and hence programmer time, doesn't ever end up in a box on a shelf with a shrink wrap EULA.
Programmers solve the problems that need solving.
Millions of dollars are wasted on perceived need.
Not that much has really changed since I was using Wordperfect in Dos 3.3 or doing DTP in GEM or using Lotus 123.
We're a programming shop, 80% of which is web browser based client/server apps (you know, stuff like /.)
We have nine full time employees. (5 programmers, 1 gfx designer, 2 managers, 1 sales). We have no premises and don't all live in the same city. Our whole business runs from the back bedrooms of each of us.
IRC is our favoured medium of communication and most hours of the day / night there is at least one of us in the channel
The sales/management team go on site to clients for meetings which clients like because it saves them travel time time too.
If that's not possible we just hire a room at a nice posh hotel which always goes down well.
Once a month we all get together and have a face to face meeting around a nice, company paid for lunch.
It's definately my favourite ever job and would not be possible without a good solid 24/7 connection. The minimum anyone "here" has is 128k ISDN but as the [A]DSL rollout continues we are gradually moving over (I'm on DSL).
Before we started the company we all worked together in the same office and I know that that has been a factor in our success. And successful we are. Our overheads for the year (April-April) we covered by the end of August! We're all looking forward to the profit share scheme come May I can tell you.
Our lives have dramatically improved. We are more involved in our family lives now we have the freedom to do so. Gone is the pressure to be at work by 9am every day. Those of us that have children get to see them more, doing the school run and participating in after school care. This has enabled my partner to go to work two days a week while having little impact on my work time.
No more trying to cram stuff in to the lunch hour.
No more having to use the computers / programs they give you, no BOFHs to contend with, no 4'x4' cube to go mad in, music as loud as you like, no more having to have clean clothes, a shave and a clean self!
I'm sure it's not for everyone. My friends think that they wouldn't have the discipline to keep working but I enjoy my work (usually) so that's not so much of a problem. And if I'm doing something tedious then my environment makes up for it. I can go water my plants or watch my tropical fish or pop out to the shops for a bit.
Actually I find it hard sometimes to stop working (which is why we introduced the profit share scheme so we wouldn't feel hard done by at 1am!)
It wouldn't be quite as feasable without broadband.
maybe you don't get it but ASP means active server pages, PHP is just one of many languages one can use in Active Server Pages, another is VB Script, but perl, python, ruby, rebol are also included.
:)
ASP is simply the name Microsoft chooses to confuse the world with. The rest of the computing planet uses CGI as the acronym. By using ASP it FUDs people because then people think that Unix doesn't have ASP.
So you see PHP isn't a competitor it's an ally. What MS want is NT/2k/XP deployment not vb script.
Once deployed it's hard to change, even if you did think that p*'s cross platform nature was going to help you. Once your scripts become complex enough then 'MS only' stuff leeches in (pathnames for instance) and moving over becomes too much hassle and for what gain?
XP, Apache, PHP -- spot the weakest link
actually I agree,
i was just being flippant
speaking from direct experience then CoolEdit from syntrillium is absolutely the best.
And I tried all the programs I could get on warez to find the best one.
CoolEdit has scratch and pop removal and works very well but even with that I ended up hand editing the waveforms for ultimate scratch removeal (including cutting and pasting clean bars from other segments of the same music).
tbh a bit of crackle and rumble does you no harm, it feels like listening to vinyl.
If recorded over 100 lps to mp3 from my collection.
It's a very long process to do well.
I encoded them at 256k (and then did a subtraction of the resulting wave forms to see what I was losing and it's not much)
It is much quicker to get them from gnutella (if you can find them) or on CD but usually they are only 128k and it's hard to get complete sets for each album. Most of my music isn't out there to download.
I'd be charging your uncle for the privilege because having an mp3 jukebox of all his recordings is a luxury he will be very glad of.
I have wired up my whole house with speakers in every room running from various amps and PC's all getting their mp3's over the network. It's fucking great!
my biggest win was a pair of 4" speakers from Maplin mounted in the bathroom ceiling. My 12 year old needs encouragement to get OUT of the shower instead on IN to it now he can blast his music out in there without having to piss about running cables and choosing cds
when i went across the outback in 1986 I saw wild camels and horses.
roos are spread all over but less so in the bush than the burbs. I saw more of them in the urbanisations than the outback (but hey, maybe they are just easier to spot near the coast!).
maybe the lions will become so numerous that i will be able to fulfill my eq dream and have real lion steaks. (bah, i'm vegetarian, oh well).
i hardly think the rabbit explosion is a good example . i can't see the place becoming flooded with large mammals, predators OR prey!
As for preserving the ecosystem, it's not like there's much there to lose, unless you really like sand.
Kerry is obviously trying to make a fast buck but seeing as he likes spactacular failure things don't bode well.
While I'm on about spectacle we decided yesterday that should the US actually capture Bin Laden they would have a PUBLIC execution, probably on Pay Per View.
If I was him, though, I would just shave my beard and hair off and calmly walk away. No-one will ever know it's him.