I am a happy user of xfstt, but unfortunately WordPerfect needs Type 1 fonts. I know about ttf2pt1, but it won't compile, and the only binaries I can find are so old they don't have Type 1 support, only Type 3. Can anyone help me on this?
I agree. The current office programs for Linux are WordPerfect, KOffice, StarOffice, and AbiWord. Of these, I have personal experience with WordPerfect and AbiWord. I have used Wordperfect for about seven years, and WordPerfect for Linux since soon after it came out. I think WordPerfect for Windows is a pretty good program, certainly better than Micros~1 Word. However, for Linux, it sucks. It has all kinds of weird bugs, and only uses Type 1 fonts. Here I have 400-odd TrueType fonts, and Xfstt, and it can't use them. Neither, for that matter, can AbiWord. I'm aware of a program called ttf2pt1 which converts between the two, but it doesn't compile and I can't find any precompiled ones. AbiWord seems like a nice, simple word processor, but there's a very annoying bug involving the zoom function, and it can't read WordPerfect files. We need a really good, powerful, stable, easy-to-use, open-source word processor. Then we need decent games.
Uh... why would anyone pay money for a text browser? Opera's thing is that they charge for browsers. So obviously their text browser is going to cost money too. So why would you pay money when Lynx is great, plus free (beer and speech)?
There are also things called server-push JPEGs, used by webcams the world over. I don't think these would be so good for GIF-style animations, though, because AFAIK there's no way to load the whole animation before playing it. Every frame comes in one at a time.
I realize they're development releases. Like I said, I support it. If M9 is marginally usable, I'll use it. But M8 was so miserable that it wasn't possible (for me, at least) to use it. I don't spend my entire life thinking of ways to help OSS. I support OSS, but I do need to actually use the programs I need, instead of spending 60% of my time filling out bug reports and restarting my browser.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but here goes...
I think Mozilla is great, but I don't use it. I've gotten every milestone since M5, and they've al been unusable. I am not a coder, and although I realize that my bug-reporting services are needed, I am not masochistic enough to use Mozilla. It has terrible page-load times, layout bugs that make it unusable, and the mail client doesn't work at all, and I'm not so altruistic that I'm willing to put up with all that, even though Netscape sucks so much. M9 is 15% done downloading, but I don't hold out much hope for its quality.
It's summer, and I live in suburban Los Angeles, and I don't have my driver's licence. Half my friends are out of town at any one time. What else am I supposed to do?
I agree. I'm online way more than 4 hours a day during summer (but much less during the school year). I'd agree that this is maybe unhealthy, but that's not going to get me to change my habits. And I'm not addicted. I can go on a vacation without a computer and not be bothered.
I don't watch TV, but I think I can make a case that TV is a lot more harmful than computer use. Whether I'm learning Java or working on my Web page or playing Same Gnome or reading and commenting on Slashdot, I'm at least thinking about what I'm doing. On the other hand, watching Sports Center does not require any though at all, except possibly to press the mute button during the commercials. So don't try to tell me that computers are more harmful than TV. Perhaps CRT themselves are addictive...
Obviously. I was talking about good-quality LPs, mainly, although certainly shellac and reel-to-reel are good, too, although very inconvenient. As to convenience, CDs are naturally much more so than LPs, which is why I use both.
I mean, if I buy a cd, I am able to record it to other medias, such as minidisc, without loosing quality.
No, you can't. You can make a DAT without losing quality. You can't make an MD, though, because MD's are lossy. I love MP3s too, but they are NOT CD quality. Try it sometime: play a track off a CD, and then play exactly the same track off an MP3 on the same hardware (both computer, probably). The MP3 will sound worse. CDs also sound worse than LPs, because the sampling is too coarse. I have heard a true 20-bit DAT, and it blows a 16-bit DAT of exactly the same material on exactly the same equipment out of the water, and in fact is pretty close to analog quality. So you should be very careful when making claims that conversions are "perfect," especially when dealing with lossy formats like MD and MP3.
An expanded view of open source sheds new light on one of twentieth-century art's signature techniques: quotation, or, in the digital context, sampling.
Although I wouldn't argue that quoting has been common in this century, I would add that it's not new. Vergil's Aeneid borrowed heavily from the Odyssey. The concept of copyright was foreign to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Okay, so this isn't too likely, but in any case, it's hard to predict human actions:
Maybe AOL/Netscape's abandonment of Mozilla would encourage people to show that no, we won't just go away, and therefore increase participation in Mozilla. Because, after all, the code is out there. Or maybe it wouldn't.
I might be wrong, bu wasn't da Vinci the company that's headed by the former Palm chief, and operation with Palm's approval? I think I remember reading about how this was Palm's ploy to (re)capture the market, by having cheap clones. Anyway, it's not cool on Palm's part.
I don't intend to be mean, but you seem to be missing something important.
A hypothesis is an educated guess. A theory is a hypothesis that has a lot of evidence to support it, and is accepted as fact. A theorem is a mathematical proof, and is hardly ever possible in science, due to the fact that science deals in evidence and experiment, not in axioms.
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I am a happy user of xfstt, but unfortunately WordPerfect needs Type 1 fonts. I know about ttf2pt1, but it won't compile, and the only binaries I can find are so old they don't have Type 1 support, only Type 3. Can anyone help me on this?
Actually, HotWired invented it in 1994.
I agree. The current office programs for Linux are WordPerfect, KOffice, StarOffice, and AbiWord. Of these, I have personal experience with WordPerfect and AbiWord. I have used Wordperfect for about seven years, and WordPerfect for Linux since soon after it came out. I think WordPerfect for Windows is a pretty good program, certainly better than Micros~1 Word. However, for Linux, it sucks. It has all kinds of weird bugs, and only uses Type 1 fonts. Here I have 400-odd TrueType fonts, and Xfstt, and it can't use them. Neither, for that matter, can AbiWord. I'm aware of a program called ttf2pt1 which converts between the two, but it doesn't compile and I can't find any precompiled ones. AbiWord seems like a nice, simple word processor, but there's a very annoying bug involving the zoom function, and it can't read WordPerfect files. We need a really good, powerful, stable, easy-to-use, open-source word processor. Then we need decent games.
Okay, ya got me. I don't use Lynx. But why not just make Lynx better? This is OSS we're talking about here.
Uh... why would anyone pay money for a text browser? Opera's thing is that they charge for browsers. So obviously their text browser is going to cost money too. So why would you pay money when Lynx is great, plus free (beer and speech)?
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There are also things called server-push JPEGs, used by webcams the world over. I don't think these would be so good for GIF-style animations, though, because AFAIK there's no way to load the whole animation before playing it. Every frame comes in one at a time.
Enlightenment DR 0.16 will have "window groups" like those you suggest.
I'm going to resist the urge to flame back.
I realize they're development releases. Like I said, I support it. If M9 is marginally usable, I'll use it. But M8 was so miserable that it wasn't possible (for me, at least) to use it. I don't spend my entire life thinking of ways to help OSS. I support OSS, but I do need to actually use the programs I need, instead of spending 60% of my time filling out bug reports and restarting my browser.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but here goes...
I think Mozilla is great, but I don't use it. I've gotten every milestone since M5, and they've al been unusable. I am not a coder, and although I realize that my bug-reporting services are needed, I am not masochistic enough to use Mozilla. It has terrible page-load times, layout bugs that make it unusable, and the mail client doesn't work at all, and I'm not so altruistic that I'm willing to put up with all that, even though Netscape sucks so much. M9 is 15% done downloading, but I don't hold out much hope for its quality.
It's summer, and I live in suburban Los Angeles, and I don't have my driver's licence. Half my friends are out of town at any one time. What else am I supposed to do?
Okay, so some people have problems. Does that mean it's a wide-scale societal problem? No. People get addicted to lots of things. So what?
I agree. I'm online way more than 4 hours a day during summer (but much less during the school year). I'd agree that this is maybe unhealthy, but that's not going to get me to change my habits. And I'm not addicted. I can go on a vacation without a computer and not be bothered.
I don't watch TV, but I think I can make a case that TV is a lot more harmful than computer use. Whether I'm learning Java or working on my Web page or playing Same Gnome or reading and commenting on Slashdot, I'm at least thinking about what I'm doing. On the other hand, watching Sports Center does not require any though at all, except possibly to press the mute button during the commercials. So don't try to tell me that computers are more harmful than TV. Perhaps CRT themselves are addictive...
Obviously. I was talking about good-quality LPs, mainly, although certainly shellac and reel-to-reel are good, too, although very inconvenient. As to convenience, CDs are naturally much more so than LPs, which is why I use both.
I'd agree with that. GMC sucks. That's why it's good they're ditching it.
Ahem. KDE has a new file manager too. Konqueror, it's called. I just read about it on Slashdot. Admittedly, it's a newer story.
That's what I said. DATs are non-lossy. My somewhat-off-topic point was that neither CDs nor DATS are as good as analog.
No, you can't. You can make a DAT without losing quality. You can't make an MD, though, because MD's are lossy. I love MP3s too, but they are NOT CD quality. Try it sometime: play a track off a CD, and then play exactly the same track off an MP3 on the same hardware (both computer, probably). The MP3 will sound worse. CDs also sound worse than LPs, because the sampling is too coarse. I have heard a true 20-bit DAT, and it blows a 16-bit DAT of exactly the same material on exactly the same equipment out of the water, and in fact is pretty close to analog quality. So you should be very careful when making claims that conversions are "perfect," especially when dealing with lossy formats like MD and MP3.
XFree is American, though, so if this hypthetical situation comes to pass, that will probably be relevant.
The article says:
An expanded view of open source sheds new light on one of twentieth-century art's signature techniques: quotation, or, in the digital context, sampling.
Although I wouldn't argue that quoting has been common in this century, I would add that it's not new. Vergil's Aeneid borrowed heavily from the Odyssey. The concept of copyright was foreign to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Okay, so this isn't too likely, but in any case, it's hard to predict human actions:
Maybe AOL/Netscape's abandonment of Mozilla would encourage people to show that no, we won't just go away, and therefore increase participation in Mozilla. Because, after all, the code is out there. Or maybe it wouldn't.
I might be wrong, bu wasn't da Vinci the company that's headed by the former Palm chief, and operation with Palm's approval? I think I remember reading about how this was Palm's ploy to (re)capture the market, by having cheap clones. Anyway, it's not cool on Palm's part.
A hypothesis is an educated guess.
A theory is a hypothesis that has a lot of evidence to support it, and is accepted as fact.
A theorem is a mathematical proof, and is hardly ever possible in science, due to the fact that science deals in evidence and experiment, not in axioms.
Indiana once did that. No shit.
Isn't that a flaw in their logic? Evolution has no validity, so why would it make you believe in god less? F-ing morons.