The users who use IE6 probably already use MSOffice.
What about the users whose computers came with Internet Explorer but did not come with Microsoft Office (an expensive extra)? Though IE and its MSHTML engine are bundled with Windows, MS Office isn't. Yet.
The point is to support everybody
<sarcasm>Then let's all just use.txt files. That way we can support people who don't even have a web browser installed. Better yet, use paper, to cover people who lack a computer.</sarcasm>
A sizable percent of WWW users use IE 6. Most of those who refuse to use IE typically use something with a bit more XSLT-fu than Netscape 4.x.
Look at the statistics from Google Zeitgeist. Red, blue, and lavender lines indicate IE 6, IE 5.5, and Gecko respectively. Notice that except for IE 5.0 (orange), the three CSS-savvy classes of browsers I mentioned dominate the client side. The lavender isn't very high yet, but it's getting there, behind only IE.
Solution: Sniff user agents and point IE 5 users at Mozilla Firebird and Windows Update.
Besides, you seem to suggest some sort of mod_xslt, but what would you translate it to?
Print comes on pages. Few if any HTML viewers support the CSS extensions for paged media. Until CSS3 support becomes widespread, word processing programs' data formats fill the gap.
What else do we need to support WordML? We need a schema so that we can interpret the other data in the text such as what parts are paragraphs (equivalent to HTML's <p>) and what parts are the outline (equivalent to HTML's <h1> through <h6>) and then write some sort of XSLT filter to convert documents from WordML to HTML, DocBookML, or some other widely recognized XML application. Unfortunately, it appears Microsoft has not licensed its XML schemas for free redistribution.
all I ever hear is Stallman and associated syncophants telling people not to use *BSD because it's not "free", at least by their definition.
The X11 license, the Expat license, and the new BSD license are listed on GNU.org as GPL-compatible free software licenses, and the old BSD license is listed as not compatible with the GNU GPL but still a free software license. Thus, an operating system consisting of Expat licensed programs, X11 licensed programs, and *BSD licensed programs is free software.
Please show me where Mr. Stallman has discouraged users from making use of non-copylefted free software. In fact, www.gnu.org and www.stallman.org run Apache HTTP Server, whose license resembles the old BSD license, on the Debian GNU/Linux OS.
No, I'm just tired of Slashdot users laughing at others' geographical misfortune by making "I was born in a town that got broadband before your town did, nyeh nyeh nyeh" comments, or worse, "I was born outside the States and you weren't, nyeh nyeh nyeh" comments.
So if leaving United States soil isn't an option, how can citizens of the United States escape the copyright industry's influence over the U.S. Congress?
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During the main phase of processing, the GIMP and Photoshop probably wouldn't see a major increase in performance from a two-bundle Itanium over a two-system cluster
Does even the expensive full version of Adobe Photoshop support running filters on a cluster?
and definately a dual-processor Athlon or Pentium 4.
Sure, it would be easy to have different CPUs do a filter on different parts of an image, but the problem here is getting an affordable WinAPI-compatible operating system to recognize the extra CPUs when Microsoft likes to price its operating systems per CPU. Windows Home Edition (1 CPU license) costs less than Windows Professional (2 CPU license), which costs less than Windows Server (4 CPU license IIRC), which costs less than Windows Advanced Server, etc. Thus, the price of Windows is one factor in the drive to put as much processing power in one core as possible.
Buying a house in the foreign country is not the only expense involved in moving. Isn't there a high "service fee" that needs to be paid to governments to expedite processing the family's immigration papers? What about some money to put food in your kids' mouths until you can find an employer willing to hire a documented alien? What about paying the $OFFICIAL_LANGUAGE as a Second Language instructor?
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I've found that ignorance and lazyness seem to prevail in the open source movement when it comes to truely portable software.
"Ignorance and laziness"? How about finance? Most free software developers own x86 machines and don't have $3,000 to waste on a new specimen of any 64-bit workstation platform. Can you provide me with programs that emulate most popular 64-bit architectures on x86 so that I can run test suites on some other platform?
A watermark would be a auditorialy invisible signal in the content data that encodes a copy protection code or DRM code.
If it can't be heard, a good lossy audio encoder will remove it. If it can be heard, audiophiles will female dog about it to no end.
If the DRM system looks for a watermark in the content data (as opposed to a special metadata code) and permits/prohibits playing, copying, saving, etc. then dubbers are defeated.
And watch how mad a father can get when his shiny new camcorder refuses to record baby's first steps just because a copyrighted telecast can be seen in of the corner of the picture.
If the majority of recording pirates are tin-eared listeners happy with what they get from Kazaa (usually 128 kbps MP3 encoded with the crappiest of encoders), the phrase "generation loss" is lossed on them too.
if they don't nobody will buy the thing because they wouldn't be able to use their tv's, monitors or ANYTHING to look at the said content(they have to make it possible to see/hear the stuff somehow, no?)
Movie studios could upgrade their processes to 3D and require home viewers to put on what are essentially night vision goggles. Yes, I know Nintendo tried this, and yes, I know the Virtual Boy flopped, but near-eye display technology has improved since then.
Croft needs to destroy computer so bad guy doesn't get the results of the stuff he was running...so she starts shooting monitors.
One word: eMac. The computer and the display are in the same case. Or, as tomstdenis pointed out, tablet PCs have the monitor right in front of the computer.
"P4 Celeron" is an unofficial term for an Intel Celeron processor using a Pentium 4 style core, as opposed to an Intel Celeron processor using one of the P6-core (PII and PIII derived) Celeron designs.
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The users who use IE6 probably already use MSOffice.
What about the users whose computers came with Internet Explorer but did not come with Microsoft Office (an expensive extra)? Though IE and its MSHTML engine are bundled with Windows, MS Office isn't. Yet.
The point is to support everybody
<sarcasm>Then let's all just use .txt files. That way we can support people who don't even have a web browser installed. Better yet, use paper, to cover people who lack a computer.</sarcasm>
Have I told you about my condition?
I'm not likely to decide that there's no point listening to any new music just because it's all been done before.
However, I amm afraid to write new music because it has all been done before, and the major music publishers have a larger legal budget than I have.
While the copyright on "steam boat willy" will at some point lapse
It has already.
A sizable percent of WWW users use IE 6. Most of those who refuse to use IE typically use something with a bit more XSLT-fu than Netscape 4.x.
Look at the statistics from Google Zeitgeist. Red, blue, and lavender lines indicate IE 6, IE 5.5, and Gecko respectively. Notice that except for IE 5.0 (orange), the three CSS-savvy classes of browsers I mentioned dominate the client side. The lavender isn't very high yet, but it's getting there, behind only IE.
Solution: Sniff user agents and point IE 5 users at Mozilla Firebird and Windows Update.
Besides, you seem to suggest some sort of mod_xslt, but what would you translate it to?
If you want an open format, look into HTML
Print comes on pages. Few if any HTML viewers support the CSS extensions for paged media. Until CSS3 support becomes widespread, word processing programs' data formats fill the gap.
I won't answer the rest of the troll.
"Apache module"? Can't XML-supporting web browsers use some sort of XSLT filter and do this displaying on the client side?
What else do we need to support WordML? We need a schema so that we can interpret the other data in the text such as what parts are paragraphs (equivalent to HTML's <p>) and what parts are the outline (equivalent to HTML's <h1> through <h6>) and then write some sort of XSLT filter to convert documents from WordML to HTML, DocBookML, or some other widely recognized XML application. Unfortunately, it appears Microsoft has not licensed its XML schemas for free redistribution.
all I ever hear is Stallman and associated syncophants telling people not to use *BSD because it's not "free", at least by their definition.
The X11 license, the Expat license, and the new BSD license are listed on GNU.org as GPL-compatible free software licenses, and the old BSD license is listed as not compatible with the GNU GPL but still a free software license. Thus, an operating system consisting of Expat licensed programs, X11 licensed programs, and *BSD licensed programs is free software.
Please show me where Mr. Stallman has discouraged users from making use of non-copylefted free software. In fact, www.gnu.org and www.stallman.org run Apache HTTP Server, whose license resembles the old BSD license, on the Debian GNU/Linux OS.
For monophonic human voice encoding, Speex at 20 kbps is transparent over my stereo system. Have a listen.
But even if the cartridge had a fan inside, wouldn't the heat still melt the plastic?
No, I'm just tired of Slashdot users laughing at others' geographical misfortune by making "I was born in a town that got broadband before your town did, nyeh nyeh nyeh" comments, or worse, "I was born outside the States and you weren't, nyeh nyeh nyeh" comments.
So if leaving United States soil isn't an option, how can citizens of the United States escape the copyright industry's influence over the U.S. Congress?
During the main phase of processing, the GIMP and Photoshop probably wouldn't see a major increase in performance from a two-bundle Itanium over a two-system cluster
Does even the expensive full version of Adobe Photoshop support running filters on a cluster?
and definately a dual-processor Athlon or Pentium 4.
Sure, it would be easy to have different CPUs do a filter on different parts of an image, but the problem here is getting an affordable WinAPI-compatible operating system to recognize the extra CPUs when Microsoft likes to price its operating systems per CPU. Windows Home Edition (1 CPU license) costs less than Windows Professional (2 CPU license), which costs less than Windows Server (4 CPU license IIRC), which costs less than Windows Advanced Server, etc. Thus, the price of Windows is one factor in the drive to put as much processing power in one core as possible.
Buying a house in the foreign country is not the only expense involved in moving. Isn't there a high "service fee" that needs to be paid to governments to expedite processing the family's immigration papers? What about some money to put food in your kids' mouths until you can find an employer willing to hire a documented alien? What about paying the $OFFICIAL_LANGUAGE as a Second Language instructor?
I've found that ignorance and lazyness seem to prevail in the open source movement when it comes to truely portable software.
"Ignorance and laziness"? How about finance? Most free software developers own x86 machines and don't have $3,000 to waste on a new specimen of any 64-bit workstation platform. Can you provide me with programs that emulate most popular 64-bit architectures on x86 so that I can run test suites on some other platform?
What about emulating a Nintendo 64?
How about the Sony Music and Sony Pictures shareholders?
Poor Man's Photoshop Elements and Poor Man's Office do only cost a dollar once I've burned them onto a CD-R disc.
It would cost at least half a million dollars to move a family out of the United States. I'd bet 99%+ of families could not afford this.
A watermark would be a auditorialy invisible signal in the content data that encodes a copy protection code or DRM code.
If it can't be heard, a good lossy audio encoder will remove it. If it can be heard, audiophiles will female dog about it to no end.
If the DRM system looks for a watermark in the content data (as opposed to a special metadata code) and permits/prohibits playing, copying, saving, etc. then dubbers are defeated.
And watch how mad a father can get when his shiny new camcorder refuses to record baby's first steps just because a copyrighted telecast can be seen in of the corner of the picture.
If the majority of recording pirates are tin-eared listeners happy with what they get from Kazaa (usually 128 kbps MP3 encoded with the crappiest of encoders), the phrase "generation loss" is lossed on them too.
if they don't nobody will buy the thing because they wouldn't be able to use their tv's, monitors or ANYTHING to look at the said content(they have to make it possible to see/hear the stuff somehow, no?)
Movie studios could upgrade their processes to 3D and require home viewers to put on what are essentially night vision goggles. Yes, I know Nintendo tried this, and yes, I know the Virtual Boy flopped, but near-eye display technology has improved since then.
Croft needs to destroy computer so bad guy doesn't get the results of the stuff he was running...so she starts shooting monitors.
One word: eMac. The computer and the display are in the same case. Or, as tomstdenis pointed out, tablet PCs have the monitor right in front of the computer.
"P4 Celeron" is an unofficial term for an Intel Celeron processor using a Pentium 4 style core, as opposed to an Intel Celeron processor using one of the P6-core (PII and PIII derived) Celeron designs.